The literary digest . he respects, todraw him into the ranks ofthose on whom he is dependentfor society and neighborlyoffices—the men whom he seesdaily at their prayers, andgoing regularly with deepsatisfaction to worship Godin the mosque. This is a strangeresult of the (Christian occu-pation of Moslem Egypt. Mr. Leeder says that one of the strangest things, perhaps,in Britains rule in Egypt is the way the question of the obser-vation of Sunday has been dealt with. He asks: Who couldbelieve that a Christian peoi)le, on whom the observance ofthe Sabbath is laid as a Heaven-given eoinniandment,
The literary digest . he respects, todraw him into the ranks ofthose on whom he is dependentfor society and neighborlyoffices—the men whom he seesdaily at their prayers, andgoing regularly with deepsatisfaction to worship Godin the mosque. This is a strangeresult of the (Christian occu-pation of Moslem Egypt. Mr. Leeder says that one of the strangest things, perhaps,in Britains rule in Egypt is the way the question of the obser-vation of Sunday has been dealt with. He asks: Who couldbelieve that a Christian peoi)le, on whom the observance ofthe Sabbath is laid as a Heaven-given eoinniandment, couldgo into a country where there was already another ChristianChurch, with many hundreds of thousands of adherents, andpromptly make arrangements by wliicji they deprived theChristians whom they employed and tlieir (hildrer\ in the stateschools of any chance of observing their holy day, giving up atthe same time their own Sunday to secular work. But thatis exactly what Britain has done. Why? Let Mr. Leederexplain:. HEAD OF THE COPTIC CHURCH. The 112th successor of St. Mark is Cyril V. and holds sway asPatriarch of Ksypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, l^entapolis. Some one conceived the idea that this was the only politicthing to do out of consideration of the Moslem people, who mustalone be thought of because they are in the majority! Thatthis political idea was imaginary and ill-founded may be judgedfrom the effect it has had on the minds of those whose prejudiceswere thought to demand it. I am more than convinced thatthere is nothing which has robbed us (the British) of respecton the part of the Moslems so much as this very act which wehad done to gain their good will. This English writer supports the Coptic contention thatwhereas when the British took control of the countrytheir people occupied a great number of the highest posi-tions in the state, in less thana quarter of a century almostall the Coptic heads of de-partments have claims that the cleavagebetween Cojit a
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