Dr. of Rushbrooke on Gift the Holy Spirit The lesson that all Christians might learn from the life of Stephen, deacon and martyr, was the subject of a sermon preached by Dr. J. 11. Rush= brooke, "general secretary of the Boplist World Alliance, at the morn~ ug service at Union Church, doy, at which he officiated in associ tion with the Rev, H. G. Newshai The gift of the Holy Spirit was not a dogma to be agreed upon or the Prerogative of any one sect or class; it was the gift of every believer. Tt Was not a monopoly of any one group of the Church, but was for all men, This spirit" was an indispensable quolineation for service in the Chris ian Church, Dr. Rushbrooke said that recently he had been reading the [Cambridge Modern History, in which he came upon a passage taken from the work of an Italian historian who was describing Pope Leo XI. The historian spoke of is fine culture, wideness of Knowledge, and other rear qualities, and then sald:—"He would have made an ideal Pope had he added to these qualities some knowledge of religion and inclination to piely, for which he cared itt Everything that really mattered therefore, missing,
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