These are wise words, and it is greatly to be hoped that not only the Moslems of Turkey, but also those inhabiting other countries, will read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.  Notably, the Moslems of India should recognise that, with the collapse of Turkish power in Europe, a new order of things has arisen, that the change which the attitude of England towards Turkey has undergone is the necessary consequence of that collapse, and that it does not in the smallest degree connote unfriendliness to Islam.  In fact, they must now endeavour to separate Islamism from politics.  With the single exception of the occupation of Cyprus, which, as Lord Goschen very truly said at the time, “prevented British Ambassadors from showing ‘clean hands’ to the Sultan in proof of the unselfishness of British action,” the policy of England in the Near East has been actuated, ever since the close of the Napoleonic wars, by a sincere and wholly disinterested desire to save Turkish statesmen from the consequences of their own folly.  In this cause no effort has been spared, even to the shedding of the best blood of England.  All has been in vain.  History does not relate a more striking instance of the truth of the old Latin saying that self-deception is the first step on the road to ruin.  Advice tendered in the best interests of the Ottoman Empire has been persistently rejected.  The Turks, who have always been strangers in Europe, have shown conspicuous inability to comply with the elementary requirements of European civilisation, and have at last failed to maintain that military efficiency which has, from the days when they crossed the Bosphorus, been the sole mainstay of their power and position.  It is, as Sir Edward Grey pointed out, unreasonable to expect that we should now save them from the consequences of their own action.  Whether Moslems all over the world will or should still continue to regard the Sultan of Turkey as their spiritual head is a matter on which it would be presumptuous for a Christian to offer any opinion, but however this may be, Indian Moslems would do well to recognise the fact that circumstances, and not the hostility of Great Britain or of any other foreign Power, have materially altered the position of the Sultan in so far as the world of politics and diplomacy is concerned.  Whether the statesman in whose hands the destinies of Turkey now lie at once abandon Adrianople, or whether they continue to remain there for a time with the certainty that they will be sowing the seeds of further bloodshed in the near future, one thing is certain.  It is that the days of Turkey as an European Power are numbered.  Asia must henceforth be her sphere of action.