The Runner Who Wouldn't Leave the Camp
Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games, becoming one of Britain's most celebrated athletes. The world offered him...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Philippians 3:17-4:1.
Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games, becoming one of Britain's most celebrated athletes. The world offered him fame, lecture circuits, comfortable living. Instead, he boarded a ship for northern China to serve as a missionary teacher in Tianjin. When the Japanese invaded during World War II, Liddell was interned at the Weihsien camp in Shandong Province.…
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