In fact, I saw it many years ago, but when I revisit it now, it is different.
"I feel the joy of the Lord when I run", "I will value him who respects me", this athlete who is unwilling to compete on the Sabbath, but won the championship in another 400 meters that he is not good at. Eric Liddell's running form is simply impossible to win the track. When he ran, his movements were quite strange, his arms were swinging high, his knees were raised quite high, and his head was always tilted back, as if he was gazing at the vast sky, with a look of ecstasy on his face. He once told his sister that he looked up and laughed because he was running for the glory of God in heaven!
God have purpose on me, he make me as a missionary, also, he make me run fast, he have purpose on me
Riddle
After the Olympics, Eric went to North China as a missionary like his father. He first arrived in Tianjin in 1925. He taught physical education at a mission school (today's Jin No. 17 Middle School) and also managed a Sunday school. In 1932, he was officially ordained as a pastor. In 1934 he married Florence Mackenzie, the daughter of a missionary from Canada. The two have three daughters.
In 1937, the all-out Sino-Japanese War broke out. Eric went to work in the impoverished village of Xiaozhang, Zaoqiang County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province (one of the London Missionary Missions in Hebei Province) to help his brother Robert, who fell ill there. Robert is a missionary doctor. At that time, the war and famine caused extreme shortage of materials and many patients. There is a Japanese occupation area.
In 1941, the situation was dire. Florence returned to Canada with her daughter. In 1943, Eric was captured by the Japanese army and was detained in the Ledaoyuan concentration camp in Weifang, Shandong, along with religious figures from the Zhifu School. In 1945, due to forced overwork and malnutrition, Eric Liddell died of a brain tumor in a concentration camp.
After the war, Eric was buried in the North China Martyrs Cemetery in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, where Bethune, Kotnis and others were also buried.
In 1991, the University of Edinburgh erected a monument to him with Scottish granite. The monument was engraved with a sentence from the Book of Isaiah: "They shall soar on wings like eagles, and they shall run and not grow weary." The Weifang municipal government lays a wreath for Eric Liddell's monument during a 2005 event marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Weifang concentration camp.
On August 8, 2008, the opening day of the 2008 Summer Olympics, the British newspaper The Scotsman named Eric the most popular athlete in Scottish history.
I really want to have the opportunity to go to Shijiazhuang to see this monument,
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