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Through Gates of Splendor
Copyright © 1956, 1957, 1981, 1996 by Elisabeth Elliot. All rights reserved.
Cover photograph copyright © by Jon McGrath. All rights reserved.
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Scripture verses marked NEB are taken from The New English Bible, copyright © 1970, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press.
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CONTENTS
2. Maps
3. Chapter I: “I Dare Not Stay Home”
4. Chapter II: Destination: Shandia
5. Chapter III: “All Things to All Men”
6. Chapter IV: Infinite Adaptability
7. Chapter V: “Expendable for God”
8. Chapter VI: Missionary to the Head-Shrinking Jivaros
9. Chapter VII: Breaking Jungle Barriers
11. Chapter IX: September 1955
12. Chapter X: Operation Auca Begins
13. Chapter XI: A Line from Plane to Ground
14. Chapter XII: The Savages Respond
15. Chapter XIII: The Search for “Palm Beach”
16. Chapter XIV: An Auca on the Path
17. Chapter XV: Why Did the Men Go?
18. Chapter XVI: “We Go Not Forth Alone”
19. Chapter XVII: Success on Friday
21. Chapter XIX: “Yet Have We Not Forgotten Thee”
24. Glossary
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people, scattered from the jungles of Ecuador to the skyscrapers of New York, have helped in the writing of this story. The four other widows, Barbara Youderian, Marj Saint, Marilou McCully, and Olive Fleming, when they suddenly found themselves with doubled responsibility, took time to gather their husbands’ diaries, letters, and other writings, and were willing to share them. Abe C. Van Der Puy, of the missionary radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, spent many months assembling material for The Reader’s Digest article, prepared by Clarence W. Hall, which appeared in the issue of August 1956. I have freely drawn on this material in the expanded version of the story. Cornell Capa, of Magnum Photos, flew to Ecuador for Life magazine within hours after the news of the martyrdom of the missionaries was radioed to the American press. With his perceptive and sensitive pictures, he tells a story which words could not have told. His skillful guidance could not have been bought with money. Life has generously made available the photographs taken for them by Cornell Capa. Jozefa Stuart, of the Magnum research staff, made a special trip to Ecuador for the publishers to collect extensive additional data which I needed in writing the book. ...
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