September, 1955, was the month in which Operation Auca really started, the month in which the Lord began to weave five separate threads into a single glowing fabric for His own Glory. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: “Wherever you are, be all there. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.” What if the well -filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptufes, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. “I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. Canst thou bear this, my soul-short life? In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God’s house consumed Him. But flame is transient, often short-lived. In his diary of the summer he wrote: ” ‘He makes His ministers a flame of fire,’ Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. Below are a few of the quotes from her book. They were wiling to risk their lives for their salvation.
What impressed me most was the passion of the men and their wives for the lost of the tribes of the Amazon. Elizabeth was the wife of one of those men, Jim Elliot. It is an inspiring story of the martyrdom of 5 young missionary men in the jungles of South America. Urn:oclc:779287284 Scandate 20100414185902 Scanner on vacation I reread ‘Through Gates of Splendor’ one week before the author, Elizabeth Elliot, passed away (6/15/15). OL15154284W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.16 Pages 280 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0903843315 Urn:lcp:throughgatesofsp00elli:epub:1e94013d-3a65-4690-92fd-cfdd37b1e600 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier throughgatesofsp00elli Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4xh08g6x Isbn 0842371524ĩ780842371520 Lccn 85051792 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:16:14 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA115523 Camera Canon 5D City Wheaton, Ill.
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