FULLY COMMITTED
“This is it guys!” he shouted as the Piper bounced onto the beach. They’re on their way!”
Lunch over, the men busied themselves fixing up a miniature “jungle” and model house in the sand, with the intention of demonstrating to the savages how to build an airstrip, should they be interested enough to want the white men to come and live among them. Then the five missionaries sang together, as they had so often done spontaneously and joyously.
Committing themselves and all their carefully laid plans to Him who had so unmistakably brought them thus far, they waited for the Aucas.
Before four-thirty that afternoon the quiet waters of the Curaray flowed over the bodies of the five comrades, slain by the men they had come to win for Christ, whose banner they had borne. The
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