Through Gates of Splendour

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SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY
The Life and Times of Jim Elliot
BY
ELISABETH ELLIOT
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." So wrote Jim Elliot at the age of 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College.
"Seven years later," writes his widow, "he and four other young men sat together on a.strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador's rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group of men whom they loved, but had never met - savage Stone Age killers, men known to all the world now as Aucas."
The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times.
But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them - a life that, though "hid with Christ in God," was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time.
Shadow of the Almighty is a tremendous biography of an adventurous life and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY
The Life and Times of Jim Elliot
BY
ELISABETH ELLIOT
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." So wrote Jim Elliot at the age of 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College.
"Seven years later," writes his widow, "he and four other young men sat together on a.strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador's rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group of men whom they loved, but had never met - savage Stone Age killers, men known to all the world now as Aucas."
The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times.
But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them - a life that, though "hid with Christ in God," was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time.
Shadow of the Almighty is a tremendous biography of an adventurous life and is also exceptional devotional literature. Jim Elliot's life and testament may well be counted among those truly great Christian writings that will endure.
Handsomely Illustrated I65 net
Through Gates
OF
Splendour
The whole incredible story of one of the boldest and most dramatic exploits in modern times
Nothing in current literature has dramatised so strikingly the collision of old and new, of darkness and light, as this story of the five missionary martyrs who were the first to penetrate the dread land of the Auca Indians in Ecuador with the Christian Gospel, only to be ambushed and slain.
'Operation Auca' utilised in the service of God all the instruments of modern communication: aircraft, two-way radios, miracle drugs, public address systems, tape recorders, modern psychology - still its first efforts were defeated by primal fear and hatred. Yet transcending this tragedy was the five's unquenchable faith in the xilti-mate purposes of God and their joyous devotion to Christ and His cause that constantly break through the episodes in the book. Long planning and careful preparation preceded the first contact with the stone-age Aucas.
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