January 13th, 1911.

AMONG the changes in the Prayer Book advocated by the Revisionists is the removal of the word “Turks” from the Good Friday Collect. It is not without significance that this proposal synchronizes with the starting of a scheme for building a Mosque in London. If this were merely a venture on the part of the followers of the Prophet, there would be no need for us to make any remark, for we could scarcely deny to Mohammedans the right to exercise their religion in this country while we ask for the right to practise the Christian faith in a Moslem country. But we notice with regret and a sense of scandal, that the committee for carrying out the scheme contains the name of some prominent politicians, some of them Churchmen. These gentle­men, we observe, are Imperialists, and, no doubt, have been impressed by a remark once made by Mr Ameer Ali, that “enormous advan­tages would accrue to the Empire itself, were a Moslem place of wor­ship founded in London.” We would venture to point out that to a Chris­tian the advancement of the King­dom of Christ should be of more importance than the British Em­pire, and that the successors of those who gave their lives to wrest the Holy Places from the hands of the infidel, and to plant the Cross where the Crescent was placed, have singularly degenerated if they help to set up the Crescent in a Christian land. We would call special atten­tion to a remark in the Times’ special article on the Mosque: “To devout Musulmans the project will be more attractive from the anti­cipation that a place of worship in the metropolis of the Empire for the performance of the simple de­votion of Islam will tend to secure a larger measure of sympathy from ob­servers in this country not familiar with the true tenets of the Moslem faith.” From “sympathy” to con­version is, we may suppose, to be the next step.