The Japanese and Christianity.
The 'Churchman' likens the reported adop. tion of Christianity by the Japanese Go vernmenb to Constantine's:
. History repeats itself. When a younjj Roman Emperor amid the distractions and anxieties of a vast and divided dominion^ was casting about for a religion to embrace^ and sanction, and for a God to rely upon, ha elected Christianity to supersede the cor-' ruptions of1 the established superstition. M This he did not because of his own faith ovM knowledge of Christian doctrine, but be4'lf cause he saw the effect of the Christian be- I lief on social and political character. Japan 'm is at this moment contemplating tha i adoption of Christianity as ft national re- ' ligion on the same grounds.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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