 | 1896 - 858 pages
...the notice-boards contained, side by side with proclamations against great crimes, the following : " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...Diocletian. Over the vast grave of many of these martyrs, this impious inscription was set up: "So Ion" as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to О come to Japan, and let all know, that the King of Spain, himself, or the Christian's God, or the... | |
 | J. Willett Spalding - China - 1855 - 422 pages
...inscription that was put by the Japanese over the massacred Christians at Simabara is recollected : " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know that the king of Spain himself, or the Christian's God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | Missions - 1881 - 498 pages
...For two hundred and thirty years the following proclamation appeared on every village notice-board: "So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know that the King of Spain himself, or the Christian's God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1856 - 396 pages
...martyrs was set up this impious inscription : — " So long as the sun shall * Kiimpfer, vol. ip 324. warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the Bang of Spain himself or the Christians' God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | India - 1856 - 516 pages
...Christians were buried at Simabara was set up, by imperial Order, the following impious inscription : " so long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian he so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know that the King of Japan himself, or the Christian's... | |
 | London missionary society - 1857 - 892 pages
...the last of those who fell while fighting for their religion, the following words were engraved, " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan." Sad is it to think that these interesting islanders knew nothing about Christianity but what they had... | |
 | S. B. Kemish - Japan - 1860 - 322 pages
...prison-island. Over the vast common grave of the massacred was set up this impious inscription : — " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the 272 LAST ROMTSH MISSIONARY TO JAPAN. Christian's... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...and over the great sepulchre at Sima-barra was erected a tablet, with this memorable inscription : " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as come to Japan, and- let all men know, if the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, violate... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...and over the great sepulchre at Sima-barra was erected a tablet, with this memorable inscription: " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as come to Japan, and let all men know, if the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, violate... | |
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So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head. 
