Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Life and Diary of David Brainerd

Author: David Brainerd

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-28

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781979222099

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This landmark biography concerns David Brainerd, one of the most successful missionaries to live in the colonial era of North America. Although he lived a short life, perishing at the age of twenty-nine, David Brainerd distinguished himself as a missionary of supreme talent and capacity. Working in the barely charted wildernesses of North America in the early 18th century, his missions aimed to convert the Native American population to the Christian creed. Many converted, partly as Brainerd was capable of preaching sermons in the open air across the untrammeled countryside. After his missions lasted a little over three years, David was already famous for his successes. Overcoming fears of the Native Americans, he established whole communities of converts, and received several offers of work in large, existing churches in the safer, colonial towns. In rejecting these, he expresses his desire to keep converting the multitude of heathens naive to the greatness of God. A sensitive soul, David Brainerd suffered from a form of intermittent but severe depression, which was compounded by his lack of company in the wilderness. At times he was malnourished, and his mental and physical condition would become so poor that he was immobile. Eventually illness forced him to give up his ministry; retiring home, he was informed by a doctor that he had tuberculosis, and died in pain only a few months later. Brainerd's brief life, beset with struggles, was considered inspirational by many Christians. This biography, by Jonathan Edwards, is adapted from the journal that Brainerd kept throughout his life.

David Brainerd
David Brainerd

Author: Vance Christie

Publisher: History Maker

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845504786

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Missionary to Native Americans Struggled with depression Had a short but deeply impacting life

The Life of John Brainerd
The Life of John Brainerd

Author: Thomas Brainerd

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780331714715

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Excerpt from The Life of John Brainerd: The Brother of David Brainerd, and His Successor as Missionary to the Indians of New Jersey Walkley, Esq., Of Haddam, Conn, Cephas Brain erd, Esq., Of New York, Rev. J. Addison Henry, 0. H. Willard and George Young, Esqs., of Phila delphia. From our cousin, the Rev. Davis S. Brainerd, Of Lyme, Conn., a native of Haddam and graduate of Yale College, and also at pre sent one Of its Corporators, we have had great sympathy in our labors. In a letter, under date of January 30, 1865, he says: It affords me the truest gratification to learn that a living hand has lifted up the memory of an able and most estima ble Christian minister from the almost complete Oblivion under which it has so long lain. What there was of true eternal life in him will now be seen and profitably incorporated into the great Christian commonwealth Of coming times. Our anxiety is not lest our work should be undervalued and censured: in the secularities of the age and the excitements of the country, its great peril is that IT will not BE thought OF AT all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Hidden Smile of God
The Hidden Smile of God

Author: John Piper

Publisher: Crossway Bibles

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9781581342475

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The author of "Comforting God" takes an inspiring look at the words and examples of three early Christians--William Cowper, John Bunyan, and David Brainerd--and how their faith in adversity encourages us to rest in the sovereignty of God amid our own difficulties.

David Brainerd
David Brainerd

Author: John Thornbury

Publisher: EP BOOKS

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780852343487

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Few lives, since biblical times at least, have had a greater impact on Christian missionary vision and enterprise, or set a higher example of personal holiness and devotion to God, than that of David Brainerd. William Carey, often called the father of modern missions, valued the story of Brainerd's life so highly that he encouraged his co-workers to read it through three times a year. John Wesley urged all his preachers to read carefully the life of Brainerd and to 'be followers of him, as he was of Christ'. Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Jim Eliot and Oswald J. Smith all testified to their esteem of David Brainerd and to the encouragement to greater holiness and faithfulness in service for God that they derived from his example. In making the life of Brainerd available for the modern reader John Thornbury draws frequently on Brainerd's own account in his personal Diary and his letters as well as the writings of his friend and mentor Jonathan Edwards. He also helps us to understand and evaluate the life and achievements of Brainerd in the context of the times in which he lived. The story of this remarkable man, whose life was so short but so full, will encourage God's people today, like those of previous generations, in their pilgrim walk and inspire them to greater commitment to evangelism and missions.

The Life of John Brainerd
The Life of John Brainerd

Author: Thomas Brainerd

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-02

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9781341151569

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