When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captian tried to turn him back , saying, "You will loose your lives and the lives of those with you of you go among such savages. "To that, Calvert replied, "we died before we came here".

This statement reminds me about Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Ed Mc Cully, Roger Youderian and Peter Fleming as they went into the deep of the Ecuador rain-forests in order to bring the Gospel to the Huaorani tribe, also called Aucas ("savages" in Quechua language). They knew the risks that they were being exposedto, but instead for the love of Christ and the Aucas, like Calvert said, "They had died before they went there".