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Anent Mr. David P. Leas' letter [about the five missionaries killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador-Feb. 13]: "Why go into Auca territory?" I answer in the words my husband wrote in his last letter to his parents: "Ours is to preach the gospel to every creature . . ." Mr. Leas is sure that the Lord must be interested in the Aucas "just as they are." God is interested in all mankind just as he is-so interested, in fact, that He sent His Son to die for him. The only trouble is that the Auca doesn't know...
...have been reading about the five missionaries killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador [Jan. 23]. These young men were very fine people. However, let's look at the Indians' side of the story. The Aucas are well known to be Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, and don't want anyone coming into their territory. Why go in? These people have lived this way for hundreds of years, and I am sure the Lord must be interested in them just as they are. Let's use all our efforts to improve our own country...
...four. The land party reached the riverbank at week's end, found that four had died of spear wounds-and one of machete slashes. Around the shaft of one spear were wrapped a few pages torn from a Bible. The dead were identified, then buried where they lay. Ecuador's government sent sympathy and regrets to the U.S. ambassador, but regarded any attempt to find the Auca murderers as impractical. Back in Milwaukee, McCully's father humbly accepted his son's death. "God makes no mistakes," he said...
...feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril. A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-ft. hardwood spears for use against human foes. Their neighbors, the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador's famed, ferocious headhunters, are said to pale with fear at the very mention of the primitive Aucas. All this the missionaries knew, as they flew in with their families to a jungle camp near Auca territory last September, but they hoped nevertheless to win over the savages with...
...Friendlier All the Time." "This was a great day for the advance of the Gospel of Christ in Ecuador," Missionary Peter Fleming wrote joyfully that night in his diary. "Ed was at one end of the beach, Jim Elliot at the other, and Roger Youderian, Nat Saint and I were in the center. From time to time we shouted words of Auca. Suddenly, we heard a loud masculine voice from the other side of the river, and three Aucas appeared. Two women and one man waved to us from the opposite riverbank . . . and thus occurred the contact for which...