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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...

Among the multitude who flocked to John came one strange Man, whom he did not altogether know; yet he knew that He was full of grace and wisdom, and in favor with God and man. He felt that himself rather needed to be baptized of one so pure, than to baptize Him; but he waived his feeling, and fulfilled his ministry. As they returned from the water-side, the heavens opened: a bodily shape, as of a Dove, came down and rested on the Stranger. At the same
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