Those five young missionaries were martyred, but as a result, the Gospel did get through. Today, virtually that whole tribe knows Christ. It is partly due to the efforts of the missionaries’ widows and especially through a sister of one the martyrs’, Rachel Saint. She faced the typical difficulties of trying to translate the Scriptures into another language, but she quickly came across a major problem. The Auca language doesn't have a word for forgive. They didn’t ever forgive anyone. If there was a problem, they just typically killed the person. Well, Rachel Saint found a word to describe it—washed.
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