David Brainerd is reported on this date, 1/17/ 1745, to have penned in his journal:
“Oh, how comfortable and sweet it is, to feel the assistance of divine grace in the performance of the duties which God has enjoined on us!”
Brainerd was a Colonial era missionary to the Indians in the American northeast. He was born 4/20/1718 at Haddam, Connecticut and died 10/9/1747 at Northampton, Massachusetts.
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