 | Arthur T. Pierson - Missions - 1886 - 396 pages
...United States sent Commodore MC Perry 1 The exact form of this ancient edict is as follows : — " 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,... | |
 | Albert Leighton Rawson - Latter Day Saint churches - 1886 - 866 pages
...its work, and over the graves of the Christian martyrs of Simabawa was reared the 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 Christian's God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | Christianity - 1887 - 504 pages
...they were sentenced to death. The following impious inscription was placed over their common grave. ' 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 Saca, if ho... | |
 | Annie R. Butler - Japan - 1888 - 152 pages
...will shock you, was posted up in the streets — a notice which remained there for 230 years : — ' 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,... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - Christianity and other religions - 1891 - 90 pages
...breaches of the law, at every roadside, at every city gate, in every village throughout the Empire : ' 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 (ie... | |
 | Church and the world - 1891 - 634 pages
...betrayed Christ again. In 1637 AD this proclamation was therefore nailed at every prominent concourse : "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,... | |
 | Josiah Strong - History - 1893 - 428 pages
...royal rescript, issued on the extirpation of the Jesuits, remained posted up through all the kingdom: " 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 Frederick Pascoe - Missionaries - 1893 - 1010 pages
...cross now became an annual ceremony, and on every village notice-board appeared the proclamation : " 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,... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1894 - 734 pages
...were made by Europeans to trade with the country, but they were always met (191) with the same reply : "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,... | |
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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. 
