Eric Liddell

This excerpt is from Chapter Three in the book SEVEN MEN by Eric Metaxas.

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Eric Henry Liddell was born on January 16, 1902, in Tientsin, China, where his parents, James and Mary Liddell, were missionaries. The blond, blue-eyed boy was nearly two years younger than his brother, Robert, born in August 1900 in Shanghai. A sister, Janet (Jenny), joined the family in 1903.

The turn of the twentieth century was a decidedly dangerous time to be a missionary in China. The Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901) ...