FIRST CHRISTIAN IN JAPAN
Sir-In an article in your paper of December 21-27 Lieut.-Colonel Orde Lees states that Saint Francis Xavier was the first Christian missionary to land and preach in Japan about three hundred years ago. In his book Brotherhood Economics (page 18) Dr. Kagawa tells us that thirteen hundred years ago Christianity had reached the Orient, and that for more than eighteen years Christianity was the State religion of China, Missionaries were sent from there to Japan thirteen centuries ago. In Kyoto still stands a Nestorian Christian Church. To-day it is a‘'Buddhist
Chapel.
HUGH
PATTERSON
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 135, 23 January 1942, Page 4
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98FIRST CHRISTIAN IN JAPAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 135, 23 January 1942, Page 4
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