The Tongue of Fire or, The True Power of Christianity (Biblia.com)

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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...

learned, to illuminate the senseless, and to inflame the cold—the power by which, beginning at Jerusalem, where the name of Jesus was a byword, she was to proclaim His glory through all Judea, throughout Samaria, and throughout the uttermost parts of the earth. 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

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