Japan Following Rome.- by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

Japan Following Rome.—

By Editor

"There are indications," says Christian Work, "that Japan may adopt Christianity as the religion of the nation. The emperor is the religious as well as the secular head of the government." Such a possibility is the omen of a dark day for Japan, and the fact that the professed Christian element of the country have such a false idea of true Christian interest as to desire such a consummation, is evidence of a sad misapprehension of Christian principles. Just such a step on the part of the Roman Empire, the emperor being "the religious as well as the secular head of the government," lead directly to the establishment of the Papacy, followed by the Dark Ages.