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Dakota Martyrs

 By Wayne Vleck
Eight people came. Three of them would never make it back home again. Here is an excerpt from Dakota Martyrs: The Story You Never Heard. "Often Cornelia would ask for water and was very grateful every time she was given some. At times she would say, "I feel so strangely. What is the matter. Have I been shot?" After a while she began to understand that she probably did not have long to live. She then began to think more of her Savior and would often be heard praying. One time she asked David to "Tell Anna to love the Savior." When David talked to her about the Savior she said, "He is my only hope." Towards the end she said a number of times, "I cannot die." When David first heard her say that he did not know quite what to think about it. Soon afterwards, though, his mind was relieved when he heard her say, "Oh, Jesus, if it be Thy will, let me die; and oh, give me patience!" Over 150 years ago the first Protestant missionaries came to a place that would one day be called North Dakota. This is their story that has been nearly forgotten for over 75 years.

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Dakota Martyrs: The Story You Never Heard
By Wayne Vleck
Compiled by Wayne Vleck
Published by Bunyan Family Books, 2004
ISBN 0970668503, 9780970668509
104 pages

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Dakota territory, Walhalla, Cornelia Spencer
9
Walhalla, Cornelia Spencer, Presbyterian
11
Oberlin College, David Spencer, Minnesota
13
Oberlin College, Red River Settlement, Alonzo Barnard
15
Cass Lake, missionary, Red Lake
17
Cornelia Leonard, Oberlin Band, involved in mission
19
Ojibway, baptism, baptize
21
John Tanner, James Tanner, Meti
23
James Tanner, Cass Lake, Sandy Lake
25
fur trade, Kittson, trading posts
27
Pembina, North Dakota, Cavalier
29
Minnesota Territory, fur trading, Pembina
31
Protestant mission, Tremendous Need, Kittson
33
Red River Settlement, John Black, Apostle
35
daguerreotype, Stites, Elijah Terry
37
Elijah Terry, James told, photography
39
Red Lake, wrapped Elijah, set up camp
41
Pembina River, James and Elijah, Future Looked
43
Frenchman, scalp, inches
45
Elijah's body, Christ, souls
47
Cressy, baptism, Elijah
49
missionary appointment, Indians and Meti, Baptist Missionary
51
John Smith, Minnesota, Sarah Barnard
53
red river cart, printing press, bark canoe
55
buffalo, trip to St, plains
Getting Settled for a Long Stay
57
Red River, carts, skin
59
Alonzo and Sarah, physician, October
61
Hold me closer, medicine, Sarah
63
Mamma Dead, funeral
I Wish I Too Were a Christian
65
Cornelia, Spencer, While traveling
67
Meti, Sioux, Cornelia
Let Me Die and Oh Give Me Patience
69
Norman Kittson, Benzonia, David Brainerd

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I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. - Page 4

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ... - Page 34

Observe : It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that Society ; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance, and with all your power to build them up in that holiness without which they cannot see the Lord. - Page 46

All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son. and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. - Page 30

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ. - Page 48

... conveniences and charities of this life may make us pause and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which He made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us... - Page 54

I am in his hands — that he is everywhere present, and can protect me in one place as well as in another. He has my heart in his hands; and when I am called to face danger, to pass through scenes of terror and distress, he can inspire me with fortitude, and enable me to trust in him. Jesus is faithful; his promises are precious. Were it not for these considerations, I should, with my present prospects, sink down in despair, especially as no female has to my knowledge ever left the shores of America,... - Page 76

You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. - Page 46

If it be the duty of all men, when the Gospel comes, to believe unto salvation, then it is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavour to make it known among all nations for the obedience of faith. - Page 18

L. torn from me ; or let me labour for fifty years amidst scorn, and never seeing one soul converted, still it shall not be worse for my soul, in eternity, nor worse for it in time. Though the heathen rage... - Page 84

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The official magazine of the North Dakota Library Association
The official magazine of the North Dakota. Library Association. March 2005. Volume 35 • Issue 1. NDLA Web Site – http://ndsl.lib.state.nd.us/ndla ...
www.ndla.info/ Good%20Stuff/ gsmarch05.pdf

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Walhalla, North Dakota - Page 88
Their grave sites and tombstones are located on a beautiful hillside spot in the Protestant cemetery at Walhalla, North Dakota. ...
Benzonia, Michigan - Page 79
After serving three years there the Spencers went to Benzonia, Michigan. Here they lived out the remainder of their lives. David Spencer gave twenty ...
more pages: 82 85
Peru, Vermont - Page 13
Alonzo Barnard was born in Peru, Vermont on June 2, 1817 but had grown up in Pittsfield, Ohio. When he was seventeen years old he came with his ...
more pages: 91
Grand Forks, North Dakota - Page 88
to the National Baptist Memorial to Religious Liberty in Washington, DC This portrait was the work of GI Gullickson of Grand Forks, North Dakota. ...
Crookston, Minnesota - Page 39
From there they crossed over to where Bemidji is today, then north to Red Lake and down the Red Lake River to present-day Crookston, Minnesota. ...
more pages: 53
Lebanon, Ohio - Page 35
The second son born to them on February 22, 1828 near Lebanon, Ohio was Elijah Stites Terry. Elijah was 13 years old when he became a Christian. ...
more pages: 91
Granby, Massachusetts - Page 79
Elvira had been born and raised in Granby, Massachusetts. Her uncle, Dr. Ferry, had founded the Presbyterian mission on Mackinaw Island. ...
Northampton, Massachusetts - Page 11
David Brainerd Spencer was born in Northampton, Massachusetts but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. After having been raised in the Congregational ...
more pages: 91
St. Cloud, Minnesota - Page 33
He was accompanied from St. Cloud, Minnesota by Governor Alexander Ramsey. Governor Ramsey was going to Pembina as the US Commissioner to negotiate a ...
Lima, Ohio - Page 35
He was then baptized by Elder Chaffee in a small stream that ran through Lima, Ohio. From the time that he was converted he felt impressed to preach ...
Philadelphia, New York - Page 49
He went to Philadelphia, New York and Washington hoping to obtain a missionary appointment from the Baptist missionary society. ...
Covington, Kentucky - Page 21
While living on the forks of the Miami and Ohio rivers near present day Covington, Kentucky, young John Tanner got his wish. ...
Elyria, Ohio - Page 13
When he was seventeen years old he came with his father's family to Elyria, Ohio which was located near Oberlin College. ...
Cincinnati - Page 17
In the tense period of time before the Civil War one of the Presbyterian churches in Cincinnati had as its pastor an outspoken abolitionist by the ...
more pages: 35 54 78
Winnipeg - Page 82
He used it in Winnipeg to print the Nor' wester. This was the first newspaper in the Red River area. In 1863 Alonzo went to Benzonia, Michigan where ...
more pages: 14
New Haven, Connecticut - Page 11
David Brainerd Spencer was born in Northampton, Massachusetts but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. After having been raised in the Congregational ...
more pages: 91
Troy, New York - Page 50
Then, before he was to head back west, he was ordained to the ministry in Troy, New York. As money came in to support the Tanner family it was found ...
Rochester, New York - Page 17
Cornelia Leonard was born August 3, 1825 at Rochester, New York and grew up in Ohio. In the tense period of time before the Civil War one of the ...
more pages: 91
Toronto - Page 33
He was a Scotchman from Montreal and a student at Knox College in Toronto. He was to visit and explore the Red River country and then report back to ...
Montreal - Page 33
He was a Scotchman from Montreal and a student at Knox College in Toronto. He was to visit and explore the Red River country and then report back to ...
Columbus, Ohio - Page 52
He wanted to help out in whatever way he could so he left a good farm near Columbus, Ohio and headed west to the mission. ...
Washington, DC - Page 88
to the National Baptist Memorial to Religious Liberty in Washington, DC This portrait was the work of GI Gullickson of Grand Forks, North Dakota. ...
New York - Page 54
They had an old-time melodeon that Alonzo had purchased in New York in 1848 and brought to Cass Lake the following summer. ...
more pages: 65
Charlotte - Page 80
David's youngest daughter, Charlotte, became a missionary in Turkey. His son Brainerd, who was only an infant in his mother's arms during that tragedy ...
Minneapolis - Page 14
In 1845 Alonzo wrote that Minneapolis consisted of a single government grist-mill attended by one soldier. The entire town of St. ...
Jerusalem - Page 74
Hian you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, 7 would. . . but ye would not. ...
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