Three Challenges to Faith Summary and Analysis

In January Jim sends a messenger to Elisabeth in the western jungle where she is working on the Colorado language. He asks her to meet him in Quito. The following day she rides through the jungle on horseback to Santo Domingo followed by ten hours in a banana truck to reach Quito. Jim enjoys his time with Elisabeth and Ed McCully and the much-needed change. Finally, he gives Elisabeth an engagement ring. He had hoped to give it to her for her birthday in December, but didn't want to leave Pete alone while Dr. Tidmarsh was gone. It delays his plan to give her the ring by forty days and forty nights, which is symbolic for times of testing in the Bible such as: 40 years in the wilderness and 40 days on Mount Sinai.

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