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so far, but not very much. In I Corinthians 7:7, St. Paul says, "Each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another." (A11 quotations are from the Revised Standard Version, unless otherwise stipulated.) In I Peter 4:7, he writes "As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace." In I Timothy 4, he tells us "Do not neglect the gift you have" (v. 14); previously in the fourth verse he reminds us that "For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is re- ceived with Thanksgiving.' In I Corinthians 12 he develops further the idea of individualized gifts.

Each Christian group has the feeling it has the inside track on gifts of the Holy Spirit, and it is always disconcerting that the same phenomena and talents happen in all other Christian groups. The enthusiast for spiritual healing at Lourdes or St. Anne de Beaupr'e finds that Christian Science accom- plished the same results. Fundamentalists prophesy from the Books of Daniel and Revelations (which is really the individual preacher prophesying because it all depends on the individual interpretation), yet Jeane Dixon, a devout Roman Catholic, has so far been far more accurate than anyone else.

Once one is willing to admit these phenomena are common to all Christianity, then he must admit that these special gifts happen in all religions and also to people who have no professed religion. The spiritual healing movement today is growing in Islam, especially in Egypt. The clair-voyants, those who possess extra-sensory perception, even the water de- viners, do not know how they happened to get that way. All they know is that they have a gift and usually the ones who come to our attention are those with some sense of responsibility. For us to deny that these phenomena exist is intellectual dishonesty in the face of facts. It is quite possible, however, that some of the sharpest confidence men, swindlers, and others have also had these same gifts and mis-