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The whole incredible story of the jungle missionary martyrs The Auca spear that killed
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Words by Ray Palmer Music by Lowell Mason
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T his hymn was written when the author was 22 years of age. So many varying versions of the circumstances of its writing have been told that it w ill p e r h a p s b e b e s t to notice Palmer’s own account: “Immediately a f t e r graduating from Yale, September 1830, the writer went to New York City to spend a year in teaching. . . . Having been accustomed from childhood to the occasional expression of what his heart felt in the form of verse, it was in accordance with this habit and in an hour when Christ, in the riches of His grace and love, was so vividly apprehended as to fill the soul with deep emotion, that the lines were composed. There was not the slightest thought of writing for another eye, least of all writing a hymn for Chris tian worship. Away from outward excitement, in the quiet of his cham ber and with a deep consciousness of his own needs, the writer transferred as faithfully as he could to paper what at the time was passing within him. Six stanzas were composed and imperfectly written, first on a loose sheet and then copied into a small book. “A year or two after . . . and when no one had ever seen it . . . Dr. Lowell Mason met the author in the street in Boston and requested him to furnish some hymns for a Hymn and Tune Book, which, in connection with Dr. Hastings, he was about to publish. The little book containing the hymn was shown him and he asked for a copy. . . . He became so interested in it that he wrote for it the tune Olivet to which it has almost universally been sung. Two or three days later we met again in the street when he earnestly exclaimed, ‘Mr. Palmer, you may live many years and do many things, but I think you w ill be best known to posterity as the author of this song.’ ” Palmer was bom November 12, 1808, the son of a Rhode Island judge. He became a Congregational minister. He published several collections of prose and verse. He would never allow changes made in his writings and would never accept remuneration. He died March 29, 1887 in Newark, N. J.
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missionary pilot Nate Saint— wrapped with a Gospel tract dropped from his plane
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Nothing in modem literature has dramatized so strikingly the colli sion of old and new, of faith and fa primitive superstition as T hrough £S G ates of S plendor . . . the saga of g* 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. Yet 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 “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 of Wheaton College “A powerful portrayal of the Chris tian dedication to which the modern world is a stranger.” — FRANK E. GAEBELEIN, Evangelical Book Club “ Reminiscent of 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 of the martyred five, is one of the wives who lived in the jungle as active partners in the fateful expedition. 64 Pages of Amazing Photographs by the missionaries and CORNELL CAPA
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“An epic missionary saga.”- " ™ " 1^ | T H R O U G G A T E S O
The Bible Institute Hour Los Angeles 17, Calif.
By ELISABETH ELLIOT Foreword by Abe C. Van Der Puy At your bookseller $3.75 HARPER & BROTHERS, N. Y. 16
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