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The account presents an individual's diary, compiled and abridged by a contemporary, tracing conversion, theological study, licensing, commissioning, and missionary labors among Native American communities. It records daily spiritual experience, intense devotion and periods of despondency, practical hardships, efforts to establish schools and instruction, community responses including notable conversions and opposition, and reflections on melancholy, zeal, and error in overwork. The chronological journal culminates in declining health and death while emphasizing discerning piety, experimental religion, and practical lessons for successors and companions.

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Title: The Life of Rev. David Brainerd, Chiefly Extracted from His Diary

Author: David Brainerd

Editor: Jonathan Edwards

Release date: April 12, 2021 [eBook #65066]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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View of the Parsonage in Cranbury, New-Jersey, July, 1833.
Occupying the ground where Brainerd preached to the Indians, 1746.

THE
LIFE
OF
REV. DAVID BRAINERD,
CHIEFLY EXTRACTED FROM HIS DIARY.

BY PRESIDENT EDWARDS.
SOMEWHAT ABRIDGED.
EMBRACING,
IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
BRAINERD’S PUBLIC JOURNAL
OF THE
MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR
OF HIS
MISSIONARY LABORS.
PUBLISHED BY THE
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.

It is a striking characteristic of the life of Brainerd, from the time of his entering on the study of Theology till his death, that he daily “walked with God,” or mourned the absence of the light of his countenance. President Edwards has endeavored to exhibit the state of his mind each day, as described in his diary. In this edition, many passages thus inserted by Edwards, especially such as much resembled those preceding or following, have been omitted.