Vivian A. Dake

Vivian A. Dake
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Short Name: Vivian A. Dake
Full Name: Dake, Vivian Adelbert, 1854-1892
Birth Year: 1854
Death Year: 1892

Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 9, 1854, Or­e­gon, Ogle Coun­ty, Il­li­nois.
Died: Jan­u­a­ry 5, 1892, on a ship near Sier­ra Le­one.
Buried: At sea.

Dake was the found­er of the Pent­a­cost Bands (not Pen­te­cost­al) that evan­gel­ized Il­li­nois, Io­wa, Kan­sas and Oh­io. He was on a miss­ion­a­ry trip at the time of his death.

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Vivian Adelbert Dake, the oldest of five children was born February 9, 1854, in Oregon, Agle County, Illinois, to Athelia Merrill Dake and Jonathon Woodcock Dake. Jonathan Dake was at this time pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1860, he and his wife enrolled as charter members of the newly organized Free Methodist Church. Vivian, who was then six years of age, grew up in the Free Methodist Church, becoming one of its able preachers.

His desire for an education was granted through an unusual circumstance; directly connected to the founder and first Bishop of the Free Methodist Church, Benjamin Titus Roberts. At a camp meeting in 1867, the bishop was raising money for seminary buildings at North Chili, New York, one of the first to give was a poorly dressed young teenager who gave ten cents. In 1870, after the school was established, this story was repeated in another camp meeting with an appeal for someone to support this boy in school, as his parents were unable to help him. A man responded to the need.

When Vivian heard the news he could go to school, he was jubilant, causing him to turn a somersault and stand on his head. He entered Chili Seminary in 1872, at eighteen years of age. Following graduation, he entered Rochester University, completing only three terms before leaving to begin his ministry. He preached his first sermon July 12, 1874, at Jefferson, Iowa. In the spring of 1876, he taught a course in Greek at the Seminary.

Dake was married to Lenna Bailey at Birmingham, Iowa, in October 1876. In this same month, he was appointed by the Illinois Conference to the St. Charles Church. Because of his wife's frail health, he was not able to accept. They accepted work in the Iowa Conference where the climate was more suitable. Mrs. Dake died in December, 1876. On January 30, 1878, he married Ida Campbell of Fairfield, Iowa. The couple's son, Bertie, died at the age of three, shortly before the birth of their daughter Mary, in December 1881. Two more daughters, Carrie and Ruth, were born to this union.

From 1876 to 1881, he served churches in the Iowa Conference; also traveling widely as an evangelist. He received his ordination as elder at the Iowa Conference in September 1881. In 1882, he joined the Minnesota and Northern Iowa Conference, receiving an appointment as conference missionary. It was during this year, in a revival meeting lasting nearly 3 months, that he wrote his first song, entitled "My Cross."

In 1885, he joined the Michigan Conference and was appointed as Conference evangelist. It was at Parma, Michigan, on July 25, 1885, that the Pentecost Bands were permanently started by Dake.

Dake's work centered in the Pentecost Bands. These consisted of groups of itinerant evangelists; mainly young people, who were assigned to do evangelistic work in dozens of cities in the United States and around the world. In this he was ahead of his generation. From 1889 until his death, Dake traveled in Germany, England, Norway, and Monrovia.

It was while in Monrovia that he contracted a tropical disease and died on January 5, 1892, in Sierra Leone.

His biographer lists more than forty hymns and prems written by Dake, the most famous and most characteristic of his works being "We'll Girdle the Globe with Salvation." This particular song, the composer of which was his wife, Ida, appeared in the 1910 edition of the Free Methodist Hymnal.

--Arlene Clyde, DNAH Archives


Texts by Vivian A. Dake (37)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A rich man was he, and his acres were broadVivian A. Dake (Author)English5
Behold the hands stretched out for aidVivian A. Dake (Author)English28
Dark, dark are the waters around meV. A. D. (Author)English7
Earthly Friendships all are rivenVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
For of Him are all thingsVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
God calls tonight, He calls for theeV. A. Dake (Author)English4
Grace and mercy, peace and loveV. A. Dake (Author)English3
Hasten, brother, hasten, blow the trumpet longVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Hasten with the gospelVivian A. Dake (Author)2
He cometh! He cometh! the judge on His throneVivian A. Dake (Arranger)English2
He is coming, He is coming, can you read the signs afarV. A. D. (Author)English3
How sweet the joy the Sabbath bringsVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
How vast the love of God to meVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
I am coming to Mount CalveryVivian A. Dake (Author)English2
I have sought pleasure the wide world aroundVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
I've missed it at last, he repeatedVivian A. Dake (Author)English5
I've no room in my heart but for JesusV. A. Dake (Author)English3
Let me go, let me go to the vineyard of GodVivian A. Dake (Author)English5
Lo! these years I came expectingVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Long in far off countriesV. A. D. (Author)English3
Mirad la pobre humanidadVivian A. Dake (Author)Spanish2
Needed! ten thousand laborersVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
No face like thine, my SaviorRev. Vivian A. Dake (Author)English5
O my cross! My dreaded cross!Vivian A. Dake (Author)English3
O, valiant hearted soldiersVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Only for souls my life's work shall beVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Precious worker, danger signalsVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Take the world with its follies and richesVivian A. Dake (Author)English7
The old rugged cross, yes, I love itVivian A. Dake (Author)English5
There are thousands who wander in darknessVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
There's a world everlastingVivian A. Dake (Author)English4
Though ye have lain among the potsVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Though flocks and herds may perishVivian A. Dake (Author)English3
We have gathered to hear of the SaviorVivian A. Dake (Author)English7
What have I on earth to boast ofVivian A. Dake (Author)English6
When are you coming to Jesus? When will you turn from your sin? (Dake)Vivian A. Dake (Author)English3
Would you know the Spirit's power?Vivian A. Dake (Author)English3
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