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used them for personal gain. This does not refute the idea that they had a special gift from God and that it was God's will that they use it for good, no matter how you wish to define these terms. At first glance it may seem ridiculous to discuss a water diviner, Jeane Dixon, Michelangelo, and Albert Einstein in the same breath, but are they not ex- amples of people who were given extraordinary gifts for no apparent reason?

Then there is the transvestite who has been given a special gift, a sensitivity to beauty, color, texture, and the feelings of the opposite sex. The little accurate research that has been done so far has established that 70 per cent of male transvest- ites are married, and the other percentages indicate that the sexuality of the transvestites is probably in the same proportion as the rest of the population. Consequently it cannot be considered a sexual aber- ration because there is no discernible sexual common cause, it exists completely apart from one's sexual- ity, and is found at all levels of life and at all ages. Thus it is a phenomenom occurring completely irrespective of sexual affinities, social class, or education. Exactly the same generalizations can be made of those who possess the many other gifts of God.

At the beginning of this was mentioned the var- ious definitions of sin. Misuse of any of these gifts is a sin because a person is out of harmony with his given situation and is disobeying an im- perative which he has been commanded. In Romans 6:23, St. Paul wrote, "The wages of sin is death," which is a truth evident to all regardless of whether or not they have a stated belief. Inasmuch as the sinners live as long as the righteous or longer, this obviously does not refer to physical death. It mere- ly states that disobeying the rules that are evident for our well being results in spiritual deterioration, ultimately to such a degree that we are incapable of realizing our finer qualities. This is spiritual

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