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A 5 page paper that discusses and reports certain aspects of the true story of five missionaries who were martyred in 1956 as told by Elisabeth Elliot in the entitled book. The paper provides a summary of the book, the principles of missionaries that are exemplified in the story with Scriptural support for those principles. The paper ends with the writer's comments on lessons learned. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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missionaries and their families in Ecuador. The missionaries (and their age at death), Jim Elliot (28), Peter Fleming (27), Ed McCully (28), Nate Saint (32) and Roger Youderian (31), were
viciously martyred by the Auca tribe, also known variantly as the Waodani or Huaorani Indians on January 8, 1956. The Auca were known to be the most vicious Indians in
that region of Ecuador. Unphased by their reputation, these five young men took numerous steps to be friendly with the tribe. For instance, they flew over the village shouting friendly
messages in the Auca language and lowering baskets of food and gifts for the Indians. Besides food, the missionaries gave the Indians cloths, beads, machetes and a photograph of each
of the five missionaries. They began these trips in October 1955. In return, the Indians would put gifts for the men in the baskets. One time, they sent a parrot
up in the basket, another time, they sent feathered head dresses as return gifts. They did this several times and with what seemed like success in terms of the Indians
returning gifts, on January 3, 1956, the men decided to set up a camp a short distance from the village. About a week after the missionaries set up the camp,
four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intentions were good, they did not want to
hurt the tribe. One of the visitors expressed a great interest in the plane. It became clear, the man would like a ride and the pilot, Nate, in the
group obliged, taking the Indian for a ride over this own village. As they passed over, the Auca man yelled out things to his fellow villagers. Based on
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