Philip James Elliot was an evangelical Christian, who was one of five missionaries, killed in 1956 while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. He was only 28 years old. He expressed his belief that work dedicated to Jesus was more important than his life (see Luke 9:24. “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.”) He wrote, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” He then quoted Luke 16:9 (“That when it shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations”.) It is close to a saying of the English preacher Philip Henry who said “He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.” His wife, Elisabeth, later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker touring the country. There was a movie released in 2006 entitled “End of the Spear” based on the killing of these missionaries. Elliot had said that “Missionaries are just very human folk, Just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.”