Search -
Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians of North America
Memoirs of Rev David Brainerd Missionary to the Indians of North America Author:David Brainerd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOD'S HAND IN MISSIONS. By The Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D. D. Science, as nature's interpreter, can show us no greater wonders than the crystal and the cell; o... more »ne the miracle of inorganic symmetry, the other the mystery of organic life. But when God's Spirit reveals to us the wonders of Grace, he shows us holy lives, which combine the beauty of the crystal with the energy of the cell; not a cold, imprisoned luster, but a radiance that shines with the living light of God. " History is philosophy teaching by examples," said Dionysius of Halicarnassus. David Brainerd is a luminous example of the spirit of missions, and of its transfiguring power in human character; and he is alphabetically at the head of a noble army of martyrs, illustrious in missionary history. His name is inseparably linked with those of Burns, Bushnell, Carey, Dober, Duff, Eliot, Ellis, Edwards, Fiske, Grant, Gutzlaff, Gulick, Goodell, Henderson, Judson, Jessup, Livingstone, Lindly, Martyn, Milne, Moffat, Morrison, Mayhew, Newell, Per- ikns, Riggs, Rhea, Stoddard, Scudder, Schwartz, Turner, Williams, Wolfe, and a host of others, whose biographies read like new chapters in the acts of the apostles, and the logic of whose lives both demonstrates and illustrates this great truth, that the spirit of missions is the spirit of the Master. To those who feel the force of the scripture appeal,all further argument for a world-wide Evangelism is needless. The Iron Duke called those last words of our Lord, " the marching orders of the Church,'1 to be promptly and implicitly obeyed. But, when the positive precept of the Holy Scripture is buttressed by considerations of every sort, personal and social, temporal and spiritual; when events add their unanswerable logic ; when the Pillar of God moves before the Church ; wha...« less