Eric Liddell's Contentment at Weihsien

In February 1945, Eric Liddell was dying of a brain tumor inside a Japanese internment camp in Weihsien, China. The Olympic gold medalist who had once electrified the world at the 1924 Paris Games now slept on a narrow cot in a cramped dormitory, surviving on watered-down stew and moldy bread. He had given up athletic fame, comfortable Scottish parish life, and eventually his freedom — all to serve as a missionary in rural China.…