CHAPTER XI - A CENTURY OF ROMAN CHRISTIANITY

"_Sicut cadaver._"

"Et fiet unum ovile et unus pastor."--Vulgate, John x. 16.

"He (Xavier) has been the moon of that 'Society of Jesus' of
which Ignatius Loyola was the guiding sun."--S.W. Duffield.

"My God I love Thee; not because I hope for Heaven thereby,
Nor yet because, who love Thee not, must, die eternally.
So would I love Thee, dearest Lord, and in Thy praise will sing;
Solely because thou art my God, and my eternal King."
--Hymn attributed to Francis Xavier.

"Half hidden, stretching in a lengthened line
In front of China, which its guide shall be,
Japan abounds in mines of Silver fine,
And shall enlighten'd be by holy faith divine."
--Camoens

"The people of this Iland of Japon are good of nature, curteous
aboue measure, and valiant in warre; their justice is seuerely
executed without any partialitie vpon transgressors of the law.
They are gouerned in great ciuilitie. I meane, not a land better
gouerned in the world by ciuill policie. The people be verie
superstitious in their religion, and are of diuers
opinions."--Will Adams, October 22, 1611.

"A critical history of Japan remains to be written ... We should