Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific CoastCrosby, Thomas
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Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast
Crosby, Thomas
Indians of North America -- Missions; Salish Indians
appeal, and this bright hope for the future, as also the miraculous
movement of David’s paralyzed arm. No doubt of his fitness for the
glory land, or his bright prospects of reaching it. Indeed, he seemed
to all to be living just on the border. The camp-meeting broke up under
a holy influence, for one and all felt the power of one who was soon
to bid farewell to earth and pass over into the kingdom eternal. After
this camp-meeting was over David spent some days visiting his friends
in the Chilliwack valley, where he was always welcome, and whose homes
he brightened and blessed by his happy experience. Then he returned to
Victoria, where he was employed as a native assistant. He gradually
grew worse, getting weaker all the time, and finally his spirit fled to
the heaven to which he had tried to point the way.
The Chairman, the now sainted Wm. Pollard, was his superintendent,
and watched over him to the last. He said David’s death was the most
triumphant he had ever witnessed. In a letter dated January 14th, 1873,
he said: “The death of David Sallosalton was a sad blow to this mission
and to the Indian work in general. He was deservedly popular, and he
was pious, eloquent and useful. He was universally beloved and almost
idolized by the Indians.”
The late Rev. Cornelius Bryant, then missionary at Sumas, who had known
David from his childhood, in referring to his death, paid this tribute
to the worth of Indian Missions: “If no other had been saved than David
Sallosalton, our Indian brother, whose glowing experience I heard in
the church a few months ago, and who is doubtless now a glorified
inhabitant of the skies, we had been well rewarded for all missionary
effort.” Mr. Pollard wrote the following obituary of him:
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