David Brainerd
David Brainerd
David Brainerdwas an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth20 April 1718
CountryUnited States of America
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.
Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
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Set yourself, my brother, to crush all appearances of this nature among the Indians, and never encourage any degrees of heat without light.
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I have now no hopes of prosecuting my journey into New England this winter; my present state of health will by no means admit of it.
I love to be a pilgrim and stranger in this wilderness: it seems most fit for such a poor ignorant, worthless, despised creature as I.