Overcomer
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.
Gary Benfold
DAVID BRAINERD
A Flame for God
By Vance Christie. Christian Focus. 320 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-84550-478-6