Our online Christian library continues with a section devoted to Methodist Theologians A, including the works of William Arthur, who lived from 1819-1901.
Arthur, William (1819-1901)
Methodist Theologians A
14 The Successful Merchant - Sketches of Mr. Samuel Budgett, Late of Kingswood Hill (1858) 15 The Tongue of Fire or The True Power of Christianity (1885) |
The following is an excerpt from the Biographical Sketch of William Arthur in his book of Addresses Delivered in New York.
Mr. Arthur was born in the County of Antrim, Ireland, in the year 1819. At an early age he was converted to God, and joined the Methodist Society in the town of Westport, situated on the shores of Clew Bay, which, if not one of the most beautiful, is at least one of the most magnificent bays in the world. He received his literary training in a classical school in Mayo, and at the early age of eighteen was sent to the Wesleyan Theological Institute at London. After finishing his theological course, he was sent out by the British Conference as a missionary to the Mysore country, in India. On the voyage he mastered the grammar of the Canarese language, the dialect of the people to whom he was going to preach; and was enabled, at the expiration of three months after he reached the station, to preach to the natives in their own tongue half an hour at a time without a book. |
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