Mom and Dad stood together watching at the pier side. We left our moorings at the Outer Harbor Dock, San Pedro, California, at 2:06 today. Strange-or is it?-that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now? Now I am actually at sea-as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless-and bound for Ecuador. I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school, and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster’s ponderous dictionary in the library. 'All the thrill of boyhood dreams came on me just now outside, watching the sky die in the sea on every side. Pete Fleming, Jim’s fellow missionary, sat at a second desk. Jim Elliot, who was later to become my husband, was writing in the old cloth-covered ledger he used for a diary. It was hot in the little cabin of the freighter. Long, easy rolling and the push of steady wind.' The deep burn of phosphorus running in the wake. White stars breaking through a high mist. The Territory of Operation Auca The Territory of Operation Auca, inset map CHAPTER I I Dare Not Stay Home Key Through Gates of Splendour is still a powerful and poignant work of Christian literature and still has the power to move, inspire, and encourage Christians today. This edition also contains an excerpt from End of the Spear, written by Nate Saint's son who tells of his return to the jungle and to the tribe who killed his father. The book also continues the story of the Huaorani tribe and later missionaries' efforts to evangelise them.

Written by the widow of Jim Elliot, Through Gates of Splendour tells of unconditional love and obedience to God, and the importance of evangelisation and how important these are to the Christian no matter where they are. Yet as it is already known, the missionaries' friendly overtures were met with violence and the five were killed. The Huaorani during the time of the missionaries' visit in the 1950s were locked in a violent blood-feud against their own clan members and outsiders, yet the five missionaries were steadfast in reaching this previously un-contactable tribe. |a Missionaries |z United States |v Biography.

|a Christian martyrs |0 |z Ecuador |0 |v Biography. |a Indians of South America |x Missions |z Ecuador. |a Through gates of splendor / |c by Elisabeth Elliot.

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