{"product_id":"9781611045604","title":"David Brainerd QUOTES: Inspirational Thoughts From America's First Circuit Riding Preacher","description":"This little book is a compilation of more than sixty of the greatest quotes from the pen of David Brainerd, drawn from his book, \"The Life and Diary of David Brainerd.\" Brainerd (1718-1747) was 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 (1801-1829). Clyde Kilby summarised Brainerd's influence as being based on the fact that, 'in our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction'. From the eighteenth century, missionaries also found inspiration and encouragement from the biography. Gideon Hawley wrote in the midst of struggles: 'I need, greatly need, something more than humane [human or natural] to support me. I read my Bible and Mr. Brainerd's Life, the only books I brought with me, and from them have a little support'. Other missionaries who have asserted the influence of Jonathan Edwards's biography of Brainerd on their lives include Henry Martyn, William Carey, Jim Elliot. and Adoniram Judson.","brand":"Waymark Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041821311216,"sku":"9781611045604","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611045604_p0.jpg?v=1763839305","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611045604","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}