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 Rh Not long ago, the Bishop of London, Dr. Ingram, speaking at the consecration of an addition to St. John's Church, Harrow, said that "people must realize that no other faith could be regarded as a rival to Christianity. Those who spoke of some of the religions of the East as alternatives, did not know what they were talking about. A certain British peer who had embraced Islam had attempted to discuss the matter with him, but that he (the Bishop) had closed the conversation by saying: 'Go and do something: to induce your fellow Mohamedans in the Near East to set free the thirty thousand Christian girls whom they have forced into slavery, and then I will argue with you."

Thus were the Bishop's words reported in The Times, November 10, 1925, and I must say they have caused me some astonishment. How does Dr. Ingram know that no other Faith can be regarded as a rival? The fact that our King rules over more Muslims than Christians, and that there are over 220,000,000 Muslims in the world, should surely give him pause before making such an ex-cathedra statement. The Bishop is another example of those who are