The Flying Scotsman Who Stayed

In February 1945, Eric Liddell lay dying in a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China. The Olympic champion who had stunned the world at the 1924 Paris Games — the man whose story would later inspire the film Chariots of Fire — had voluntarily remained in occupied China as a missionary when he could have fled to safety. Now, weakened by a brain tumor, he spent his final weeks not in despair but in quiet, deliberate acts of tenderness.…