203 See p. 204.

204 See Dickson's _Japan_, p. 227.

205 His beatification was decreed by the pope in 1609, and his
canonization in 1622.

206 Hildreth's _Japan_, etc., p. 176.

207 The Jesuit historians relate with malicious satisfaction how one of
the Spanish friars, in a dispute with one of Adams' shipwrecked
company, to sustain the authority of the church appealed to the
miraculous power which its priests still possessed. And when the
Hollander challenged an exhibition of such power, the missionary
undertook to walk on the surface of the sea. A day was appointed.
The Spaniard prepared himself by confession, prayer, and fasting. A
great crowd of the Japanese assembled to see the miracle, and the
friar, after a confident exhortation to the multitude, stepped,
crucifix in hand, into the water. But he was soon floundering over
his head, and was only saved from drowning by some boats sent to his
assistance.--Hildreth's _Japan_, etc., p. 140.

208 "This will seem to you less strange, if you consider how the Apostle
St. Paul commands us to obey even secular superiors and gentiles as
Christ himself, from whom all well-ordered authority is derived: for
thus he writes to the Ephesians (vii. 5): 'be obedient to them that
are your temporal lords according to the flesh, with fear and
trembling in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ; not seeming
to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but as the servants of Christ
doing the will of God from the heart, with a good will seeming as to
the Lord and not to men.' "

The above is an extract from an Epistle of St. Ignatius, the 26th of
March, 1553, which is still regarded as authoritative and is read
every month to each of the houses. It was supplied to me by Dr. Carl
Meyer and verified by Rev. D. H. Buel, S. J. of St. Francis Xavier's
College, New York City. Dr. Meyer has also pointed out that the
Second General Congregation, 1565, severely forbids any Jesuit to
act as confessor or theologian to a prince longer than one or two
years, and gives the minutest instructions to prevent a priest from
interfering in any way with political and secular affairs in such a
position.

209 This edict of Ieyasu is given by Mr. Satow in his contributions to
the debate on Mr. Gubbins' _Review o