From the team behind the trusted Gospel Meditations series comes 31 readings full of biblical instruction and encouragement for dads of all ages, at all stages. The Life of David Brainerd. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. In 1749 Edwards published An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, drawn from Brainerd’s extensive diaries and supplemented by Edwards’s own commentary. In England Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) had read Edwards’ work much earlier and was among the first in England to do so. Publication date 1812 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics religous Collection folkscanomy_religion; folkscanomy; additional_collections Language English. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakeningevangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) have been motivate… Feb 4, 2017 - Explore MISSIONS ️SERVE OTHERS ️HEROES's board "DAVID BRAINERD" on Pinterest. He had four brothers and four sisters. While Brainerd's life was short (he lived only 29 years) 1718-1747, it was extremely fruitful. [18] His Journal was published in two parts in 1746 by the Scottish Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. On the afternoon of the same day, the faculty had invited Jonathan Edwards to preach the commencement address, hoping that he would support their position, but instead he sided with the students. While Brainerd's life was short (he lived only 29 years) 1718-1747, it was extremely fruitful. David Brainerd. Later, at Princeton Seminary too, the Life was often commended, but without Wesley’s cautions about Brainerd’s failure to understand Christian perfection. It has had life-transforming effect upon many, motivating them to become missionaries, evangelists, preachers, people of prayer and power with God. Like “I have received my all from God; oh that I could return my all to God! His life provides a powerful source of instruction and inspiration for those who desire to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. David Brainerd (1718–1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. He also asked ‘What can be done to revive the work of God where it is decayed?’ His answer? ‘I have been reading the life of excellent Mr. Brainerd,’ he writes, ‘and it has greatly humbled and quickened me.’ He recommended it widely and went on to publish parts of the diary. An objection to mission it deals with is the ‘uncivilised, and barbarous way of living’ of the target audience. If I were to begin this article with the words “Poor David Brainerd,” I would be embarking on the kind of reading of Brainerd’s life that Jonathan Edwards, in his edition of Brainerd’s diary, The Life of David Brainerd (1749), sought to prevent. At twenty-one, swept up by the Great Awakening, he had a conversion experience and enrolled at Yale. John Elliot (1604-1690) was a pioneer missionary to native Americans. It doesn’t matter how sick, how discouraged, how weary, how lonely we may be, God uses His saints who cry out to Him to use them for His glory and His kingdom. The Life of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards, Some thoughts concerning the revival of religion in New England, A. F. Walls ‘The Evangelical Revival, the Missionary Movement, and Africa’ eds Noll, Bebbington and Rawlyk. If it is true that his treatises were too abstruse to make an impact on the spiritual life of the ordinary person, then his Life of Brainerd represents an effort to reach a larger audience and to teach by example. 'Jonathan Edwards: A gallery of friends, foes & followers'. He had nine siblings, one of whom was Dorothy's from a previous marriage. Everyday low … The fourth volume, in 1796, featured an excerpted version of Brainerd’s life, totalling about 25 pages across three issues. He also omitted phrases he deemed unsuitable for the Christian public. David Brainerd. Sutcliff obviously did get to read it eventually as it became top of his recommended reading list when anyone asked about missionary work. When Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813–1843) read the Life of Brainerd, he wrote that he could not ‘express what I think when I think of [Brainerd]. Edwards sought to portray Brainerd as a model of Christian saintliness who manifested his faith in good works and self-sacrifice, expurgating many passages that recorded Brainerd’s depressions and enthusiasms. David Brainerd was an 18th Century American missionary of Reformed beliefs. In November 1746, he became too ill to continue ministering, and so moved to Jonathan Dickinson's house in Elizabethtown. The Life of David Brainerd Michigan: Baker Book House, 1978. Brainerd's writings contain substantial meditation on the nature of the illness that eventually led to his death and its relation to his ties with God. David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. by jonathan edwards. The editors noted that ‘few lives are more interesting than that of Mr. Brainerd.’ They hoped readers would ‘perceive how easily God can provide instruments for his work’ and that his success, ‘in circumstances most discouraging,’ would provide ‘the clearest demonstration that those difficulties which, to us, appear insuperable, instantly vanish at the presence of the Almighty.’ The Anglican periodical Missionary Register did something similar in 1816. No uninspired writer ever did me so much good. The struggle between the colonial powers of England, France, and Spain raged throughout his lifetime. Show More. After a few months of rest, he travelled to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he stayed at the house of Jonathan Edwards. Surely, if ever I arrive at the heavenly world, I shall be eagerly desirous of seeing him.’, One final example of a missionary who died young who was inspired by Brainerd is the martyred Jim Elliot (1927-1956). On April 20th, 1718, David Brainerd was born to devout Christian parents in Haddam, Connecticut .By the age of fourteen, he and his eight siblings had lost both of their parents to illnesses and were left as orphans. We all have a year full of examples of that, don’t we? Author : David Brainerd,Jonathan Edwards; Publisher : Unknown Publisher; Release : 05 February 2021 In his early years, David was very careful and serious in following God. Apart from a trip to Boston in the summer of that year, he remained at Edwards's house until his death the following year. 1 likes . In August 1949 he wrote of being in a. spiritual stir over reading David Brainerd’s diary. David Brainerd dedicated much of his short life to preaching the gospel to Native American peoples. On arriving in Calcutta in 1806 he wrote. Students at Lafayette College founded the Brainerd Evangelical Society based on Brainerd's teachings in order to "promote Christian Missions and the Evangelization of the World". The Life of David Brainerd is Jonathan Edwards' most popular book. 172 likes. The historian William Warren Street (1818-1959) remarked. Within a year, the Native American church at Crossweeksung had 130 members, who moved in 1746 to Cranbury where they established a Christian community.[11]. [9], His first missionary task was working at Kaunameek, a Housatonic Indian settlement near present-day Nassau, New York, twenty or thirty miles from missionary John Sergeant who was working in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. ‘His story,’ wrote Sherwood of Brainerd ‘has done more to develop and mould the spirit of modern missions, and to fire the heart of the Christian Church, than that of any man since the apostolic age.’. In 1884 a more thorough revision was prepared by James Manning Sherwood (1814-1890) in New York. He carried it in his saddle-bag as he pioneered among the Iroquois.9. Tick of the Clock. Edwards believed that a biography about Brainerd would have great value and set aside the anti-Arminian treatise he was writing (later published as Freedom of the Will) in order to create one. Fuller has to disappoint him not having a copy. – Jonathan Edwards 'In twenty-nine years David Brainerd (1718-1747) made a deeper and more lasting impression on the world in which he lived than most men make in a long lifetime. Josiah Pratt's 1834 biography uses Brainerd's own journal and letters to examine the character of an extraordinary man and expose the discrepancy between Brainerd's self-lacerating writings and the exceptional fortitude made evident by his deeds. THERE are two ways of representing and recommending true religion and virtue to the world; the one, by doctrine and precept; the other, by instance and example; both are abundantly used in the Holy Scriptures. A complete edition was printed in London in 1851 in the Christian’s Fireside Library series. Little did he know just how fast the blaze would consume him. Instead, it was therefore suggested that Brainerd devote himself to missionary work among the Native Americans, supported by the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. David Brainerd (1718-1747) was an early American missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Edwards was about to set to work on his treatise Freedom of the Will when these materials came to hand. ― David Brainerd, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd with Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards. ‘Let every preacher read carefully over the life of David Brainerd’. William Crow was judged to be a good candidate after his initial examination and was subsequently given a copy of the Life and a month to read it and write an essay on his perspective on the ‘character, difficulties, and privations of a Christian Missionary.’ There are also frequent references to Brainerd in the writings of missionaries and mission candidates. The Life And Diary Of David Brainerd (eBook) by David Brainerd As Prefaced by Jonathan Edwards In ePub, .mobi & .pdf formats. We draw here chiefly on the work of John A Grigg on this subject.1 He quotes Andrew F. Walls, who says, ‘David Brainerd became the principal model of early British missionary spirituality.’2 Grigg demonstrates this. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) have been motivated by the ministry of David Brainerd. See Less. He suggests that most acts of brutality reported against Europeans may have originated in ‘some real or supposed affront [to local peoples], and were therefore, more properly, acts of self-defence, than proofs of ferocious dispositions.’ To support his argument, he notes that ‘Elliot [sic], Brainerd, and the Moravian missionaries, have been very seldom molested’ and insists that most native peoples had ‘principally expressed their hatred of Christianity on account of the vices of nominal Christians.’, In concluding his Enquiry, Carey reminds readers that they are ‘exhorted to lay up treasure in heaven,’ and a great reward must await Paul, Elliot, Brainerd and others who ‘have given themselves wholly to the work of the Lord.’. … In his diary entry for 24 September, Brainerd wrote: 'In the greatest distress that ever I endured having an uncommon kind of hiccough; which either strangled me or threw me into a straining to vomit'.[13]. He prepared the Journal for the leaders of the missionary society from whom he received financial help. We will mention only a few. Six years later at the age of 31, Jesus took Henry home. An Account of the life of the late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd was published in 1749. [3] This has been interpreted by evangelical scholars as a conversion experience. Additional information. The Life gave a flesh and bones example of the sort of thing that Edwards was commending. [8], On 1 April 1743, after a brief period serving a church on Long Island, Brainerd began working as a missionary to Native Americans, which he would continue until late 1746 when worsening illness prevented him from working. As a result, he gained the attention of Jonathan Dickinson, the leading Presbyterian in New Jersey, who unsuccessfully attempted to reinstate Brainerd at Yale. In the Yale edition Professor Norman Pettit has written that. Indeed, David Brainerd dead was a more potent influence for Indian missions and the missionary cause in general than was David Brainerd alive. In 1843 the Presbyterian Board of Publications printed an abridgement entitled The Missionary in the Wilderness or Grace displayed among the heathen. It has motivated them to faithfully pursue God and His ministry through all of their physical and emotional sufferings. If I were honest, my writing would be more in anguish as his is. 171 likes. He also points out that though the text of Edwards’ biography is largely Brainerd’s ‘the volume as Edwards conceived it belongs to him’. During his lifetime he became perhaps the greatest preacher in the English-speaking world, of his […]. Most of his brothers ended up in the ministry, although those that did not were respectable upright people. David Brainerd Christian School was also named after him. Brainerd was frequently cited and referred to by the mission boards. The diary continues to be in print in various forms. writings. A new edition, with the Journal and Brainerd's letters embodied, was published by Sereno E. Dwight at New Haven in 1822; and in 1884 was published what is substantially another edition, The Memoirs of David Brainerd, edited by James M Sherwood. [26] In 1902, they constructed a building known as Brainerd Hall (now Hogg Hall) to house their religious meetings, and serve as a recreational facility on campus.[27]. The life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians : chiefly taken from his own diary and other private writings by Brainerd, David, 1718-1747 ; Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 [14] He died from tuberculosis on 9 October 1747, at the age of 29. He is a man in a million; he did more than any other to usher in the world’s new day.’, More recently the American preacher John Piper has written. Born in 1718 to a devout Puritan family in Haddam, Connecticut, David Brainerd was orphaned at the age of 14. Author : David Brainerd,Jonathan Edwards; Publisher : Unknown Publisher; Release : 05 February 2021 See more ideas about brainerd, david, missionary. The Life of David Brainerd [Documentary DVD] $ 14.49 Be challenged to walk more closely with God, to pray more for the gospel’s advance, to long for true revival, to endure hardships for Christ’s sake, and to expect God’s blessing on those who are weak. Horton was another pioneer missionary to Native Americans. During this period he started a school for Native American children and began a translation of the Psalms. Brainerd in turn undoubtedly influenced Edwards, who spent most of his last seven years working among Native Americans in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is the 1902 edition of this that was reprinted by The Banner of Truth in 2007.7. In his short life, he travelled […], The Bible tells us that God controls everything in our lives and in our world. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd. [7] In 1742, Brainerd was licensed to preach by a group of evangelicals known as 'New Lights'. From a journal that seems weak and worldly compared to Brainerd’s I quote. Life Span: 29 years, 5 months, 19 days. 2 likes. It is important for believers to reflect on the legacy of David Brainerd. This is a long sometimes almost depressing diary of a young missionary to the Native Americans during colonial times. David Brainerd". Lord's day, Oct. 19. God, which he lived during his brief day on earth,’ continues to inspire Christians, says Bonar. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (177 pages) with Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards. David Brainerd lived twenty-nine short years. This led to the publishing of An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. Carey had come to a Baptist church in Leicester in 1789 and that had brought him into closer contact with a circle of Calvinistic Baptist ministers who encouraged him to write about the need for concerted missionary effort. The Life of David Brainerd, also called The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards, first published in 1749 under the title "An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. But how cold I have grown, and how careless about it all. On the other, there is Edwards’ Life of the Late Rev David Brainerd (1749 to the present). most abundantly encouraged by reading D Brainerd’s account of the difficulties attending a mission to the heathen. Indeed, David Brainerd dead was a more potent influence for Indian missions and the missionary cause in general than was David Brainerd alive. The life of David Brainerd provides a point of reference for those who are given to the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was orphaned at the age of fourteen, as his father died in 1727 at the age of 46 and his mother died five years later. [6], This episode grieved Brainerd, especially as a recent law forbade the appointment of ministers in Connecticut unless they had graduated from Harvard, Yale or a European institution, meaning that he had to reconsider his plans. [11] In May 1747, he was diagnosed with incurable consumption; in these final months, he suffered greatly. By 1749 Edwards was already a well-known writer. On one occasion, he acknowledged being ‘much humbled by Brainerd — O what a disparity betwixt me and him; he always constant, I unconstant as the wind.’ A little humorously, he complains on one occasion that he could not pray in the woods like Brainerd ‘for fear of tygers’! One could go on. The extracts deal with his work at Crossweeksung June 19-November 4, 1745; November 24, 1745-June 19, 1746. Brainerd’s journal provided not only his own example but that of other conversions, all judged according to the criteria laid down in Edwards’ Distinguishing Marks of 1741. Brainerd was a man of prayer and fasting who abandoned himself to God. exclaimed Henry Martyn when he arrived in Calcutta in April of 1806. The Life of David Brainerd provides a point of reference for those who are given to the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. On one hand, there is the life of David Brainerd 1718-1747. Despite Brainerd's expulsion from Yale, the University later named a building after him (Brainerd Hall at Yale Divinity School), the only building on the campus to be named after a student who was expelled. The Life of David Brainerd, also called The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards, first published in 1749 under the title "An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. When we think of the life of Brainerd we are really thinking of at least two things. 2016 "Most Creative Documentary" - International Christian Film Festival. A complete edition appeared in 1765 in Edinburgh and an abridged American edition was published in 1793. From 1743 to 1747 Brainerd had been a missionary to the Indians. [5] He later apologized for the first comment, but denied making the second. When he was nineteen, he moved to an inherited farm and r… [22] From the eighteenth century, missionaries also found inspiration and encouragement from the biography. Edwards sought to portray Brainerd as a model of Christian saintliness who manifested his faith in good works and self-sacrifice, expurgating many passages that recorded Brainerd’s depressions and enthusiasms. The Life of David Brainerd: A Documentary can be viewed individually or in a small group. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. [23], Other missionaries who have asserted the influence of Jonathan Edwards's biography of Brainerd on their lives include Henry Martyn, William Carey, Jim Elliot,[24] and Adoniram Judson.[20]. David Brainerd, (born April 20, 1718, Haddam, Conn. [U.S.]—died Oct. 9, 1747, Northampton, Mass. In many cases these included summaries of Brainerd’s activities during the days which either he or Edwards omitted from the record… Some changes have been made in the original punctuation and spelling. In May, 1780, at the annual meeting of their association, The Northamptonshire Association, it was agreed to recommend the book to all who ‘love evangelical, experimental, and practical religion, and especially to our younger brethren in the ministry’. While I was looking on the elements of the Lord's Supper, and thinking that Jesus Christ was not 'set forth crucified before me', my soul was filled with light and love, so that I was almost in an ecstacy; my body was so weak I could scarcely stand. It seems the Brainerd project took priority because Edwards saw it as providing an excellent example of the sort of qualities extolled in his previous book The Religious Affections (1746). The Life of The Life of David Brainerd: Agency, Evangelicalism, and Book History. [10], Subsequently, he was reassigned to work among the Delaware Indians along the Delaware River northeast of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained for another year, during which he was ordained by the Newark Presbytery. Sign up to receive a regular digest of fresh Banner of Truth resources and blog articles. An article from journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture (Livre et religion), on Érudit. The Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has papers for David Brainerd[28] that consist of a letter by Brainerd (c. 1743) to Rev. Yet’ because ‘at some seasons he speaks of sinking as well as rising’ he felt that while lacking Brainerd’s ‘singular piety’ he too knew the same ‘feelings, prayers, desires, comforts, hopes, and sorrows’ and that could at least be followed. He made a handful of converts, but became widely known in the 1800s due to books about him. His life is an undeniable reminder that God uses even the weakest saint upon his knees—the one who trusts in God alone and puts no confidence in the arm of the flesh. The Welsh revival leader Howell Harris (1714-1773), we know, was one who was reading an edition of Brainerd’s life in 1761. (Freedom of the Will did not appear until 1754). Joseph Bellamy and notes concerning Brainerd’s published works by Rev. An account of the life of Mr. David Brainerd : missionary from the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, & pastor of a church of Christian Indians in New-Jersey by Brainerd, David, 1718-1747; Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758; Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1705-1777. Find out why. horatius bonar, kelso. Director: Joe Tyrpak. He too wrote warmly of Brainerd. David Brainerd was born in on April 20, 1718 to Hezekiah Brainerd, Esq, and Dorothy Hobart. David Brainerd was an 18th Century American missionary of Reformed beliefs. However, he once said, “I had a very good outside but my heart was exceedingly sinful.”He made a commitment to enter into the ministry even though he was not a believer. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd ought to be read and read often by God's people. An Account of the life of the late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd was published in 1749. David Brainerd’s diary stirs me on to such in prayer.’. [10] After this, he moved to Crossweeksung in New Jersey, where he had his most fruitful ministry. The struggle between the colonial powers of England, France, and Spain raged throughout his lifetime. One of the most helpful places in Scripture to give us perspective on this […], Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, a village in the county of Essex in the east of England, on 19 June, 1834. David Brainerd's Diary changed my life.. What made the experience of listening to Life of David Brainerd the most enjoyable? David Brainerd (1718–1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. As Piper notes, the date of Brainerd's death, and the age at which he died, are both incorrect on his gravestone. When in 1881 Horatius’s brother Andrew Bonar (1810-1892) visited America at the invitation of D. L. Moody (1837-1899) one of things he made certain to do was to visit Brainerd’s grave. David Brainerd. David Brainerd, an early missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, died in 1747 at the age of twenty-nine at the home of his long-time friend and supporter, the eminent Puritan theologian and preacher Jonathan Edwards. Part of every issue was set aside to document the ‘progress of the Gospel throughout the kingdom’ and the magazine soon became a voice for mission promoters. While reading the missions classic The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, I was struck by David Brainerd’s perseverance through great hardships.He endured them all to accomplish one transcendent cause: to lead Native Americans to Christ. David Brainerd was an American Missionary to the Native Americans in New England. Buy The Life and Diary of David Brainerd: With Notes and Reflections by Brainerd, David, Edwards, Jonathan (ISBN: 9781611043310) from Amazon's Book Store. This led to the college trustees passing a decree in 1741 that 'if any student of this College shall directly or indirectly say, that the Rector, either of the Trustees or tutors are hypocrites, carnal or unconverted men, he shall for the first offense make a public confession in the hall, and for the second offense be expelled'. [19] The result was an edited version of Brainerd's diary, with some passages documenting Brainerd's despair removed. Like “Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.” ― Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd. When he returned in November 1740, tensions were beginning to emerge at Yale between the faculty staff and the students as the staff considered the spiritual enthusiasm of the students, which had been prompted by visiting preachers such as George Whitefield, Gilbert Tennent, Ebenezer Pemberton and James Davenport, to be excessive. It has shown the great reward of serving God with complete abandonment. He was also affected by difficulties faced by other missionaries of the period, such as loneliness and lack of food. Often, these men were challenged by Brainerd’s example of the ideal Christian. Producer: Mitch Silvius and Joe Tyrpak . David Brainerd. Henry Martyn said that “perusing the life of David Brainerd, his soul was filled with a holy emulation of that extraordinary man; and after deep consideration and fervent prayer, he was at length fixed in a resolution to imitate his example.” William Carey regarded Edwards’ Life of Brainerd as a sacred text. The Life of David Brainerd is Jonathan Edwards' most popular book. His edition became the standard one, although over the years it has been published many times with various editorial notes and alterations. Brainerd’s life is a vivid, powerful testimony to the truth that God can and does use weak, sick, discouraged, beat-down, lonely, struggling saints, who cry to him day and night, to accomplish amazing things for his glory. Much of Brainerd's influence on future generations can be attributed to the biography compiled by Jonathan Edwards and first published in 1749 under the title of An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd. … Brainerd was a man of prayer and fasting who abandoned himself to God. The book was inspired by a number of missionaries, including Brainerd. When missionary training institutions began to spring up they most frequently turned for instructional inspiration to the writings of the Moravians and the Life of Brainerd. He wrote, like Edwards, ‘out of the conviction that telling the stories of the lives of remarkable Christians is a means of grace for the church.’ 5, Yet another missionary who died young was Henry Martyn (1781-1812). As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians. Brainerd's life also played a role in the establishment of Princeton College and Dartmouth College. On 12 July 1739, he recorded having an experience of 'unspeakable glory' that prompted in him a 'hearty desire to exalt [God], to set him on the throne and to "seek first his Kingdom"'. His first publication in 1731 was God Glorified in Man’s Dependence on 1 Corinthians 1:29-31. For Carey, Brainerd exemplified the missionary life. Of only five books in the Gosport Library, one was the life of Brainerd. It was the private diary, however, that formed the basis of Edwards’ Life. The Life of David Brainerd: A Documentary. The Life of David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians; with an Abridgment of His Diary and Journal. Died: October 9, 1747 Northampton, Mass. In his short life, he travelled over 12,000 miles on horseback in that vast north eastern sector of what we now know as the USA. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd with Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards (Illustrated)David Brainerd (April 20, 1718-October 9, 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. The three beloved heroes of William Carey [1761-1834], who is referred to as the Father of Modern Missions, were the Apostle Paul, John Elliot, and David Brainerd. In 1749 Edwards published An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, drawn from Brainerd’s extensive diaries and supplemented by Edwards’s own commentary. His Diary and Journal are a brim with ministries and miracles that were akin to the acts of the Apostles. Samuel Marsden (1765-1838) worked with the CMS in Australia and on the voyage from England he read  ‘of Mr Brainerd’s success among the Indians,’ and determined that the ‘same power can also effect a change upon those hardened ungodly sinners to whom I am about to carry the words of eternal life.’. It is worth every minute. From 1793, with Andrew Fuller and others, Bogue sponsored the quarterly Evangelical Magazine. On another occasion he wrote, ‘thought of David Brainerd, and ardently desired his devotedness to God and holy breathings of soul.’, Shortly before his departure for India, he noted that a reading of Brainerd had led him to a time of prayer ‘for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom, and that I might be sent to the poor heathen.’, Aspiring missionaries either wanted to, or quickly learned that they were expected to, incorporate lessons from Brainerd in their applications.
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