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Appendix E. November 13, 1925. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SPIRITUAL RESOURCES OF THE AMERICAN UNIVEKITY AT CAIRO. For the Year 1924-25. As a Christian institution, it is wise for us to remind ourselves of some of the work that has been accomplished during the past five years which can be accounted for only on the grounds that God has been our Guide. In these trying days when many missionary educational institutions, much older and with far larger circles of givers, have found it impossible to meet their budgets, this University has ended each year free from debt. The task of raising its funds has been by no means an easy one, but it has always been accomplished. Only recently the University was greatly disappointed by the failure to receive from a large Foundation a gift of $100,000 for a much needed auditorium; but within a month afterwards there came that exact amount for that same object from a donor hitherto wholly unknown to the Trustees. Because of its Christian character, the University has been openly attacked by Moslem newspapers, who have insisted that it be investigated by the Govern-ment; but no investigations have beenmade, and the Government has constantly remained friendly. ahe University insists that all its college students shall attend the chapel service at which there is Scripture reading and prayer, and shall take courses in religion including a study of the life of Christ and of the comparative merits of the Moslem and the Christian faiths. Nevertheless, fifty percent of the students are Moslems, many of them from families of high rank. This work is carried on in a city universally recognized as the great teacher and promulgator of the Moslem religion "We of the administration have been over and over again conscious of more than human power being built into the work during the past," wrote Dean Mc- Clenahan on behalf of his colleagues at the close of the University's first year. "We have been conscious of the unspeakable large dynamic of those who are maintaining this work through prayer. Nothing has been so encouraging and refreshing to us as this consciousness." His testimony has been repeatedly echoed by others of the staff, and its truth has been shown by the efficiency of their labors. There is abundant testimony to the fact that the members of the group it-self have been helped by being associated with us in this work. Some of our friends have written as follows: "My interest in the University is greater than ever before owing to the information which you send out, and also owing to the fact that one's love for a cause daily remembered in prayer always grows." "It is a great cause for thanksgiving that Mohammedan young men we learning something of Christianity which makes them dissatisfied with their false religion, and that Moslem fanaticism has not interfered seriously with the work of the University. I consider it a privilege to belong to this prayer group, and eagerly read every woni you send out." "I never before have known any institution doing the work of our Lord to act on a plan that has commended itself so heartily to ray best judgment, as that outlined in your pamphlet." An article by Mr. Lum in the "Missionary Review of the World", describing this phase of the University's work, has been distributed among the Trustees