Going down steep mountain, they reached the port of Sonogi. It was a little after midday on February 4th. While the prisoners were quietly discussing recent events, gazing at at the peaceful countryside, Fr. Peter Baptist dropped back a few steps, sat on a rock, and began meditating. After for a while, tears uncontrollably started to come out of his eyes.
“I am marching to my death. I am going to die for preaching Jesus Christ. I was given great joy. Even if missionary activities has only just begun in this country, his brothers in the Lord, who were supposed to succeed, are going to die, too. How is the missionary work going in this nation? The enterprise for which he had sacrificed everything is going to be undone.”
It was not for his own life or the country he was born and grown up or his family that he wept.
Yes. for this country, he wept for our country this Japan. He just did looking after future of this Japan our country. He cried watching over all the difficulties Christians in Japan would suffer from.
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