David Brainerd, Beloved Yankee

Book by David Wynbeek – Eerdmans – 256 pp. David Brainerd, the young new Englander who brought stirring revival to the Indians in Colonial America during the 1700’s was a contemporary of Jonathan Edwards, the well-known Puritan “fire and damnation” preacher.  Jonathan Edwards, highly esteeming Brainerd, edited Brainerd’s doleful diary in the year 1748.  Wynbeek, a graduate of Calvin College and presently Advertising Manager for Wm. B. Eerdmans, revised Edward’s edition of Brainard’s diary in...