Joy Behind the Wire
In 1943, Japanese soldiers marched Eric Liddell through the gates of the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong, China. The Scottish Olympic champion who had electrified...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 5:1-5.
In 1943, Japanese soldiers marched Eric Liddell through the gates of the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong, China. The Scottish Olympic champion who had electrified the world by winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games now found himself crowded into a compound with 1,800 prisoners, sleeping on a narrow cot, eating boiled grain. Yet something remarkable happened behind that barbed wire.…
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