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  1. Oct 24, 2022 · Though a short life, David Brainerd stands in the pantheon of believers mightily used by God. In 1742, fueled by revival zeal, Brainerd was expelled from Yale for his remark that a tutor in the college had no more grace than a chair.

  2. Jan 31, 1990 · Where Edwards would take spiritual delight ‘in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees,’ Brainerd never mentioned natural beauty. In contrast to Edwards’ joy in summer is Brainerd’s fear of winter.” Brainerd never mentioned an attractive landscape or sunset.

  3. Feb 1, 2017 · Inasmuch as Brainerd lived in Dickinson's home during the winter of 1746/47 (suffering from the illness that would kill him soon thereafter, we think tuberculosis), Brainerd participated in the launch of Princeton.

  4. It was a terribly cold winter and a bout with the measles laid him aside that first year. Trying to catch up only caused greater maladies and by August, 1740, he was weak and spitting up blood. Consumption or tuberculosis of the lungs was the plague of colonial New England.

  5. David Brainerd (1718-1747), a missionary to the American Indians, has become one of the most influential missionaries of all time.

  6. Jan 29, 2014 · David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians in the 1740's, lived only 29 years yet his life continues to impact Christians because of his lifestyle of prayer and fasting.

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  8. David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot , and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.

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