The Tongue of Fire: The True Power of Christianity

by William Arthur

Publisher:

Harper & Brothers

, 1900

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Overview

At the beginning of the twentieth century, The Tongue of Fire: The True Power of Christianity called the church to re-examine the power and provision of the Holy Spirit. In this text, Irish minister William Arthur reflects on the Spirit and the Pentecost, focusing on the symbolic imagery used to describe the Spirit’s descent on the church. Arthur’s work pushes against what he saw as the church’s formal, apathetic stance towards the Spirit, and seeks to revive the vitality of the church that comes through the Spirit.

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Key Features

Reflects upon the Pentecost and imagery of the Holy Spirit
Calls for a return to reliance on the Spirit
Challenges the church’s formal views of the Spirit

Top Highlights

“The symbol is a tongue, the only instrument of the grandest war ever waged: a tongue—man’s speech to his fellow-man; a message in human words to human faculties, from the understanding to the understanding, from the heart to the heart. A tongue of fire—a man’s voice, God’s truth; man’s speech, the Holy Spirit’s inspiration; a human organ, a superhuman power!” (Page 39)

“‘Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be endued with power from on high.’” (Page 6)

“‘But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.’ What power? of Princes, or Magistrates? Nay, quite another power, for an unearthly work: ‘And ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.’” (Page 7)

“They saw His life: a life as of the Only-begotten Son of God. They heard His words: such words as ‘never man spake.’ They saw His works: signs, and wonders, and great miracles, before all the people. Yet they received not the baptism of fire!” (Pages 3–4)

“When the Messiah cometh, he will baptize all men; those who receive Him, he will baptize with the Holy Ghost, and those who reject Him he will baptize with fire.’” (Page xi)

Praise for the Print Edition

The Tongue of Fire is an English classic far above the need of criticism from us. We have only to tell our readers that this is worthy to be the library edition for all future time. Those who have never read these flaming pages, should lose no time in doing so; especially those who wish to teach and preach Jesus.

—Charles H. Spurgeon, in The Sword and the Trowel.

The notoriety and the admiration which, in so brief a period, have already attended this publication, almost supersede the necessity of any special remarks from us . . . The circulation of so deeply spiritual, so pointedly practical, and so truly eloquent an appeal to Christian people, cannot fail of the happiest results.

—The Methodist Review

Among God’s greatest gifts to his church during the nineteenth century, ‘for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,’ was his gift to the Wesleyan branch of the church, and through them to the whole church, and to the world— the gift of William Arthur . . . If every preacher would but read [The Tongue of Fire] through at least once a year it would certainly fire his soul with new enthusiasm for the souls of men.

—Homiletic Review