In 1949 a young American college student called Jim Eliot was preparing to go out on the mission-field. At that time he wrote these words: ‘He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.’ Some seven years later he was sitting with four friends deep in the Ecuadorian rain forest. They had gone to this remote spot in an attempt to make contact with a very secretive tribe called the Auca Indians. On Sunday morning,
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