| 1853 - 624 Seiten
...one sentence of which, and one only, may be transferred to these pages : " So LONG AS THE SON SHALL WARM THE EARTH, LET NO CHRISTIAN BE so BOLD AS TO COME TO JAPAN!" The Dutch gained but a part of the advantage they expected from their mean compliances. Japan was not... | |
| Laura DeLany Garst - 1913 - 346 Seiten
...society. That name was Christ." The public boards read as follows : " So long as the sun shall continue to warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan." Rewards were offered informants. Christ was, as Griffis says, " branded as the Christian criminal God."... | |
| 1914 - 1244 Seiten
...that Jesuitism had been uprooted, the shogun issued the following decree: 'So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to...the Christian's god, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head! ' The sweeter, milder faith brought by the present-day... | |
| Howard Benjamin Grose, Fred Porter Haggard - 1914 - 330 Seiten
...were written in the land of Japan, after 37,ooo Christians had died in 1636: "So long as the sun shall warm the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come...let all know that the King of Spain himself or the Christians' God or the great God of all, if he violates this command, shall pay for it with his head."... | |
| Ernest Wilson Clement - 1915 - 216 Seiten
...news to Macao; and they were shown a tablet with the following inscription: So long as the sun warms the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan, and let all know that if King Philip himself, or even the very God of the Christians, or the great Shaka [Buddha] contravene... | |
| Arthur Judson Brown - 1915 - 318 Seiten
...inscriptions : "The evil sect called Christian is strictly prohibited." "So long as the sun shall continue to warm the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan." Christ was branded as the Christian criminal God, and Dr. Griffis says that mothers stilled their crying... | |
| Howard Benjamin Grose - 1916 - 1156 Seiten
...issued two edicts. Translated into English they read as follows: " As long as the sun shall continue to warm the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan. And let all know that if the Christian's God himself shall violate this command He shall pay for it with His head." " The... | |
| Elizabeth Williams Champney, Frère Champney - 1917 - 582 Seiten
...Philip Second he had posted at every crossroad the following proclamation : So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to...the Christian's god, or the great god of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head. Nippon was now as wholly isolated from the world... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Board of Religious Education - 1917 - 214 Seiten
...beside the roads and on bridges, were great notices which read: "So long as the sun shall continue to warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to...the Christian's God, or the great God of all, if he dare violate this command shall pay the forfeit with his head." For over two hundred years these boards... | |
| Montaville Flowers - 1917 - 294 Seiten
...That decree is so characteristic that it is of great interest. "So long as the sun shall continue to warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to...let all know that the King of Spain himself, or the Christian god, or the great god of all, if he dare violate this command shall pay for it with his head."... | |
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