The Man Who Left Gold Behind

In 1925, just months after winning Olympic gold in the 400 meters in Paris, Eric Liddell boarded a ship for northern China. The Scottish sprinter had become a national hero — crowds chanted his name, newspapers printed his face, and the world laid earthly glory at his feet. He walked away from all of it. For nearly twenty years, Liddell served as a missionary teacher in Tianjin and later in the rural countryside of Xiaochang.…