 | Mrs. Devenish Meares, Mrs. Florence Moore Meares - 1908 - 156 pages
...himself ; " we have been shut up long enough." The notice board bore the following 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... | |
 | Allen Klein Faust - Christianity - 1909 - 104 pages
...reason is found in the extreme native pride. This pride was expressed in edicts such as 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 Christian's God, or the great God of all, if... | |
 | Otis Cary - Japan - 1909 - 450 pages
...is as given by Pages. A more common version reads somewhat as follows : " 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 the King of Spain, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all violate... | |
 | James Monroe Buckley - Missions - 1911 - 164 pages
...journey to Japan — found a people who had on its statute books : "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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 976 pages
...embassy and the reasons for the execution, and concluded with the words: — " 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 KKU: I'hilip himself, or even the very Cod of the Christians, or the great... | |
 | Clifford Grant Howell - Missionaries - 1912 - 390 pages
...sown. Fire and sword fiercely followed, and thousands perished. It is said that a notice was posted : " 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, ... if he violate this command, shall pay for it with... | |
 | Lancelot Lawton - East Asia - 1912 - 766 pages
...public noticeboards at every roadside and 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 of all, if... | |
 | Arthur Romeyn Gray - Japan - 1912 - 272 pages
...PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MISSION, 1853-1859 "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,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1853 - 624 pages
...up ; 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 - Japan - 1913 - 346 pages
...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."... | |
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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. 
