The Secrets Of The Japanese Government Classic Reprint

Author : Newell Martin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267493791
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Attempt to Exterminate Korean Christians (Classic Reprint) written by Newell Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Japan's Attempt to Exterminate Korean Christians Who knows by what magic or good luck or supernatural per suasiveness heathen Japan controls the time and manner of publishing or suppressing the most important missionary news since Diocletian's day? Hundreds of pages of facts have been brought through all perils with speed and secrecy to the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards. Published, those horrifying documents would have roused the most complacent priest of our city churches, the meanest deacon of us all, and the coldest of our politicians; and the persecutors would have been slowed up or inconvenienced; and Paris might have denied their prayer for added power. A machinery, however, had been prepared beforehand, and according to plan, as the Japanese of Europe used to say, the unsuspecting Presbyterians and Methodists pour-ed their facts into the publicity department of a commission the secre tary of which is Dr. Sidney L. Gulick, famous for his eulogies of Japan, many of them entirely just. Those facts were buried forever, then, in the office of a Japanophile enthusiast who was not less determined than Tokio to keep them from getting about among the Americans or getting to Paris. Dr. Gulick called in Japanese officials, who controlled and directed the obsequious whispers in which we Christians vented our fiery wrath. Month after month went by, and five months after the persecution broke out, Dr. Gulick's publicity department, uh der pressure, reluctantly printed that brown pamphlet. To kill all possible interest in it, he prefaced it with five pages of flattery of the Japanese Government and of advice to 'us to trust Apollyon to execute all necessary reforms. Who wish es to read one single page of these atrocities when assured -by Dr. Gulick in the foreword that a most efficient govern ment is doing what we pray for and that the mission boards themselves are content? God will not be content, nor will the Christians of California. Perhaps you have not seen Japanese executioners. I have. July 6, 1919, was perhaps the very day on which Dr. Gulick was writing his misleading praise of Tokio. Months before that day Dr. Gulick had begun prostrating us in respectful telegrams before the Mikado's throne. On July 6, in the cap ital city of Korea, a muscular Japanese executioner strips to his task again. The sword-like rawhide whistles throughthe air, and falls with sickening force across the bare flesh. Of a Christian student. After oten cruel slashes, delivered with all his might, he is relieved by a second executioner for ten more cuts; and then comes a third, to give ten more. On July 7, once more, three executioners drive the rawhide with full swing and force into the very place that was torn and gashed yesterday. The boy is again dragged back to his jail. If you were be, lying there waiting for the next day's torture, would you not pray for death? Or would you, per haps, curse the day you became a Christian. Or. If you knew whose secret hand was guilty of your torments, would you not curse Gulick? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.