TOWARD EACH ONE THE SAME
If you saw the film Chariots of Fire, you probably remember Eric Liddell as the champion who refused to run on Sunday in the 1924 Olympics. But those who were with him in the Weihsein Internment Camp during the Japanese occupation of China knew there was much more to him than that. Biographer Sally Magnusson writes in The Flying Scotsman: “In a camp rife with criticism and back-biting and gossip, there was no one who had a bad word to say of Eric Liddell. His attitude to everyone was the same. You would find him talking to the businessman just the same way as to the Roman Catholic priest or the child from Chefoo (a school for missionary children).” Magnusson quotes Mrs. Isabel Herron, one of the Chefoo Children, as saying, “When Eric died, one of the women in the camp, a Russian prostitute, told my mother that Eric Liddell was the only man who had ever done anything…
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