NOW IN A BREATHTAKING BOOK
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M a rym n ô by Phil Kerr
AN ATHE I ST ’ S HEART BREAKS !
The whole
incredible story of the jungle
Master, the Tempest is Raging
“ W h ile I was away on a mis sionary tour,” writes a Gospel worker of the American Mission to Greeks, “ m y w ife told me she had gone to call on the president of our village who was seriously ill. Although w e all knew that he was an atheist, m y w ife dared to talk to him about his soul. He listened to her and seemed to drink in her words. Suddenly m y w ife burst into tears. His heart of stone broke. The strange words he had heard touched his soul. He immediately asked his wife to help him get on his knees and pray— for the first time in his life! When m y w ife was ready to leave, he warm ly pressed her hand and assured her they would meet in heaven. A few days a fter ward he passed a w a y ” Our missionaries endure priva tions, persecution and long hours of labor, but it all seems worth while when it results in souls be ing w on to Christ. W hat really hurts is not to be able to travel as extensively as possible to tell the Good News, or not to have enough New Testaments to place in the hand of every spiritually thirsting soul who asks for one. As one old lady who came to Christ recently said, “ I might have died without hearing of H im .” Your gifts for missionary work and Scripture distribution help to supply this lack and result in m any souls com ing to know Christ who might have died with out this knowledge. For on ly $1.00 you can provide a Greek Bible or 4 N ew Testaments, or with any amount up to $50 a month you can help to support a native worker regularly. The results w ill count for eternity. You may have your own missionary as signed to you to pray and give for, and from whom to receive reports. Just write to the Am er ican Mission to Greeks, Inc., the Rev. Spiros Zodhiates, General Secretary, Dept. K, P.O. Box 423, N ew York 36, N .Y. (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ont.)
Words by Mary A. Baker. Music by H. R. Palmer.
missionary martyrs The Auca spear that killed missionary pilot Nate Saint- wrapped with a Gospel tract dropped from his plane
■pile author was born September 16, 1831. Orphaned at an early age, she lived in Chicago with a sister and brother. Just as she had attained young womanhood, her dearly-loved brother was stricken with the same disease which had taken her father and mother — consumption. The two sisters, in unfortunate financial cir cumstances, managed to get enough money together to send their brother to Florida, t h i n k i n g t h e climate would prolong his life. Within a few weeks he passed away; they were financially unable to bring his body home or to go to Florida themselves. “Although we mourned not as those without hope,” wrote Miss Baker, “ and although I had believed on Christ in early childhood and had always desired to give the Master a consecrated and obedient life, I be came wickedly rebellious at this dis pensation of divine providence. I said in my heart that God did not care for me or mine. But the Master’s own voice stilled the tempest in my un sanctified heart and brought it to the calm of a deeper faith and trust.” A short time after, she was request ed by Dr. H. R. Palmer to write a song-poem in keeping with a current Sunday school lesson, “ Christ stilling the tempest.” Her own recent experi ence gave her the necessary inspira tion, and she quickly produced a p o em w h i c h Dr. Palmer highly praised and to which he set music. During the latter part of her life, Miss Baker became an ardent worker for the W.C.T.U. Horatio Richmond Palmer was bom in Sherburne, N.Y., April 26, 1834. He sang in a choir at nine, began writing music at 18, studied in Ger many and Italy, returned to America and became a teacher, conductor, editor, author and composer. The Concordia Magazine in Chicago was founded by him in 1866. For many years he conducted the 4,000-voice New York City Choral Union. More than 50 publications bear his name, including songbooks, choir collections and theoretical works. His best-known songs include, “ Yield not to Tempta tion,” “ G a l i l e e , Sweet Galilee,” “ Come Sinner Come,” and “Master the Tempest is Raging.” He died in New York, November 15, 1907.
N oth in g in modem literature has dramatized so strikingly the colli sion of old and new, of faith and primitive superstition as T hrough G ates of S plendor . . . the saga of the five young missionary martyrs who, in their small plane, were the first in centuries to penetrate the dread land of the Auca Indians with the Christian Gospel — only to be ambushed and slain with savage lances. Y et transcending the trag edy of this amazing Christian ad venture — now known to the whole world as “ Operation Auca” — was the five’s unquenchable faith in the ultimate purposes of God and their joyous devotion to Christ which constantly break through the epi sodes in this book — much of it ex pressed in their own diaries and messages. Leaders Praise It Vr, “ T hrough G ates of S plendor proves conclusively that first-cen tury devotion to Christ, even to martyrdom, is still alive.” | — V„ RAYMOND EDMAN, President o f Wheaton College “ A powerful portrayal of the Chris tian dedication to which the modern world is a stranger.” — FRANK E. GAEBELEIN, Evangelical Book Club “ Rem iniscent o f the m issionary ! stamina and sacrifice of the apos- \ tolic age.” — CARL F. H. HENRY, Editor, Christianity Today T he A uthor , widow of one o f the martyred five, is one of the wives I who lived in the jungle as active partners in the fateful expedition. 64 Pages of Amazing Photographs by the missionaries and CORNELL CAPA “An epic missionary saga.’’-^ ™ " '^ jf T H R O U G
By ELISABETH ELLIOT Foreword by Abe C. Van Der Puy At your bookseller $3.75 HARPER & BROTHERS, N. Y. 16
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