James Gilmour Chronology of Life - Missionary Biographies

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Chronological List of Events
in James Gilmour's Life

James Gilmour was a Scottish missionary to Mongolia who made lonely, heroic efforts to preach the gospel to a people steeped in Lamaist forms of Buddhism; spending summers with nomadic Mongols on the plains of Mongolia and winters with Mongols in Peking. After his wife died in 1885, he labored in eastern Mongolia until his death at age 47, after 21 years of missionary service.

1843	Born at Cathkin, near Glasgow, Scotland, June 12.
1862	Enters Glasgow University, where he received his M.A. Is converted early in his college course.
1867	Applies to London Missionary Society and is accepted. Enters Cheshunt (Theological) Collegee, near London, September.
1869	Enters Highgate missionary training institution, September.
1870	Ordained as missionary at St. Augustine's Chapel, Edinburgh, February 10. Journey from Liverpool to Peking, February 22-May 18. Massacre of foreigners at Tientsin, June 21. First Mongolian trip -- from Peking to Kiachta, August 5-September 28.
1871	Visits scene of first Mongolian Missions (1817-1841), March.
1872-3	Spends winter in Yellow Temple, Peking, working for Mongols.
1874	Marries Emily Prankard at Peking, December 8.
1874-5	Time mainly spent in Peking, substituting for furloughed colleague.
1877	Tours in Shantung, baptizing many converts.
1882	Gilmour and his family start for furlough in Great Britain, Spring.
1883	They return to China, September 1-November 14.
1884	Boyinto, his only convert among the nomadic Mongols, witnesses a good confession in a lama tent, March 1.
1885	Mrs. Gilmour dies, September 19. Gilmour starts for Eastern Mongolia, the scene of his later labors, December 14.
1889	Second furloungh in Great Britain, May 25-January 9, 1890.
1891	Died of typhus fever at Tientsin, China, May 21.

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