"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" The life and Testament of Jim Elliot So wrote Jim Elliot at age 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College. Seven years later, writes his widow, "he and four other young men sat together on a strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador s rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group…