DAVID BRAINERD
A Flame for God
By Vance Christie. Christian Focus. 320 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-84550-478-6
He was born in 1718, expelled from Yale in 1741, a life-long depressive, continually sick, and died from TB (at the home of the great Jonathan Edwards) in 1747.
Yet David Brainerd became one of the most influential missionaries since apostolic times, with William Carey, Henry Martyn, Jim Elliot and countless others helped and encouraged by him.
