The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, William

ARTHUR, William (1819-1901). A British author and clergyman, born in Ireland. He was in India for three years as a missionary; afterwards secretary of Wesleyan Church Missionary Society, and president of the British Conference, and was principal of the Wesleyan College in Belfast from 1807 to 1871. He is the author of Personal Reminiscences of a Mission to the Mysore (London, 1847): The Tongue of Fire, or True Power of Christianity (1856; 40th edition in 1885, and many reprints), and other works.