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TO THE CMMITTEE ON CAIRO UNIVERSITY APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. DEAR BRETHREN:- In this letter we desire to make formal recognition of your communication of Nov. Oth, 1914 and to express to you the deep, appreciative sentiments of the recently organized Board of Trustees of Cairo University, in reference to all the suggestions made in your letter. As these weighty educational L,easures are received in a sense from your hands and now pass under the control of our official life, we are glad to make record that our desires, our vision and our purposes are in completest harmony with the faith, and the endeavors of your Board, and with the hopes and prayers of that consecrated Company whom you have represented through these sixty years. Impressed like you with the magnitude of the undertaking, we are also cheered and encouraged by the fact that our hearts are as your hearts in all that touches the real life of Cairo University. As the responsibility for the interests and guidance of this Institution has now been delegated to us and as we have officially accepted the trust, we assure that in our prayers and plans and counsell-ings together, we are deeply ::roved by a keen realization of the vital character of our new obligt tions. We recognize that this responsibility comes as an inheritance from the United Presbyterian Missionaries in Egypt, who seventeen years ago were thinking and planning and praying for a deeper and broader educational work in Cairo, the brain centre of the Moslem world. God retarded their missionary zeal for Christ by giving them a vision of greater things to come