There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliot.

Both of my parents were seven day a week kind of Christians. They had six children,

I'm number two, and we knew,

our parents said, they meant, and they meant it the first time.

There was none of this countdown nonsense or one two three.

They made it perfectly clear to us that obedience was to be at once and delayed

obedience would be treated as disobedience. And we knew that they were quite

serious about that because my mother had a little switch over the door in every room in the house.

Just a little 18 inch switch. It's not going to do any permanent damage to a child, but it does sting little bare legs.

And that was over the door of every room.

And so past the age of three or four, I really don't think she had to use that much at all because by that time we had thoroughly learned

that it would be used unless we obey.

And I've been asked what sort of punishments did your parents give you.

Well, I really can't remember very many besides that one because by the time we were three or four we'd gotten the message and we knew that our parents meant exactly what they said and they meant it the first time.

Well then I went to that boarding school that Joni Grimm also went to.

It was an amazing school.

It was founded primarily for missionaries children.

But we learned exactly the same lessons all over again

that I learned from at home. And Mrs. Du Boz, who was a redoubtable woman, probably

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