Five Pioneer Missionaries (John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Burns, John G Paton. Academic His sudden appearance out of

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Daniel and the lion’s den

Five Pioneer Missionaries (John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Burns, John G Paton. Academic His sudden appearance out ofBOOK DESCRIPTION There are few more thrilling periods of church history than the great missionary movement which stretched from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Recognizing that Jesus Christ was the missionary sent by the Father, and that the Bible is the Magna Carta of missions, men like Henry Martyn, John G. Paton, John Eliot, David Brainerd, and William Chalmers Burns left home, family, and love for the sake of Christ and to spread his