David Brainerd biography
By almost any standard known to modern missionary boards, David Brainerd should never have been even considered as a missionary. As a youth he was frail and sickly, and by the time he applied to be a missionary, he had tuberculosis. He never finished college, and had even been expelled from Yale for criticizing a professor. He was also prone to the emotional ups and downs of depression. As detained in the David Brainerd biography, he still became a successful missionary to the American Indians during the short remaining years of his life. A pioneer in modern missionary work and one of the first “circuit riding preachers,” his life and experience were an inspiration to many.
