 | Robert Elliott Speer - Missions - 1901 - 304 pages
...of 37,000, and over the ruins of the castle an inscribed stone was placed, so it is said, declaring, "So long as the sun shall warm the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let us know that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Pascoe - Missionaries - 1901 - 756 pages
...Cross now became an annual ceremony, and on every village notice board appeared the proclamation: "80 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, Go^l of all,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1901 - 590 pages
...over two hundred years and until 1872 was posted the command : So 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 the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the ffreat God of all,... | |
 | Marquis Lafayette Gordon - Missions - 1901 - 174 pages
...historians estimate that over a thousand clerical and 200,000 lay Christians perished at this time. 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,... | |
 | Delavan Levant Leonard - Missions - 1903 - 472 pages
...village, on every highway, by the ferries and in the mountains, and reading in this vigorous fashion : "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 [thought to mean the Pope]... | |
 | Missions - 1903 - 472 pages
...GIBSON. THE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS OF JAPAN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. " So 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 the King of Spain himself, or the Christian's God, or the great God of all,... | |
 | Marshall Everett - Japan - 1904 - 548 pages
...to plead for the Catholics, were put to death, and their ship burned. On their tomb was inscribed : "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 Saca, if he violate... | |
 | William Elliot Griffis - Japan - 1904 - 336 pages
...of the time. — WG ASTON. One of those [anti-Christian] edicts is said to have read as follows, " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command,... | |
 | Arthur Judson Brown - China - 1904 - 426 pages
...edict issued in 1638 still on its statute books declaring — "So 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 the King of Spain himself, or the Christian's God, or the great God 1 Part... | |
 | Herbert Moore - Christianity - 1904 - 208 pages
...they were murdered at Nagasaki, and their remains sent to Macao in a chest bearing the inscription : ' So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian set foot in Japan ; and if the King of Spain, or the King of Portugal, or the great God of the Christians... | |
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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. 
