In this long and even tedious but absolutely essential
process, I believe your University will take an important part. When I
was recently in the Sudan I heard a vernacular proverb, based on a
text in the Koran, which is so apt that, although not an Arabic
scholar, I shall attempt to repeat it in Arabic: "_Allah ma el
saberin, izza sabaru_"--God is with the patient, _if they know how to
wait_.[6]
[6] This bit of Arabic, admirably pronounced by Mr. Roosevelt,
surprised and pleased the audience as much as his acquaintance
with the life and works of Ibn Batutu surprised and pleased the
sheiks at the Moslem University two days before. Both Mr.
Roosevelt's use of the Arabic tongue and his application of the
proverb were greeted with prolonged applause.--L.F.A.
One essential feature of this process must be a spirit which will
condemn every form of lawless evil, every form of envy and hatred,
and, above all, hatred based upon religion or race. All good men, all
the men of every nation whose respect is worth having, have been
inexpressibly shocked by the recent assassination of Boutros Pasha. It
was an even greater calamity for Egypt than it was a wrong to the
individual himself. The type of man which turns out an assassin is a
type possessing all the qualities most alien to good citizenship; the
type which produces poor soldiers in time of war and worse citizens in
time of peace.
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