Introduction

Biography

Arthur was the hus­band of Sar­ah Fran­ces Be­ne­dict (mar­ried 1860).

He at­tend­ed Ha­mil­ton Col­lege, Clin­ton, New York, and Un­ion Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, New York Ci­ty.

He served pas­tor­ates in Bing­ham­ton and Wa­ter­ford, New York; De­troit, Mi­chi­gan; In­di­an­apo­lis, In­di­ana; and Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

After re­tir­ing, he con­tin­ued to preach at church­es and con­fer­ences at home and abroad.

He was a con­tem­po­ra­ry and friend of ma­ny Chris­tian lead­ers, in­clud­ing Dwight Moo­dy, Ado­ni­ram Gor­don, George Müll­er (whose bio­gra­phy he wrote), and Charles Spur­geon.

During Spur­geon’s last ill­ness, Pier­son filled the pul­pit of the Me­tro­po­li­tan Ta­ber­na­cle in Lon­don for sev­er­al months.

Works

• The Cri­sis of Miss­ions (New York, 1886)
• Many In­fal­li­ble Proofs: Chap­ters on the Evi­denc­es of Chris­ti­an­ity, 1886
• Evangelistic Work in Prin­ci­ple and Prac­tise, 1887
• Keys to the Word: or, Helps to Bi­ble Stu­dy, 1887
• The One Gos­pel or, The Com­bi­na­tion of the Nar­ra­tives of the Four Ev­an­gel­ists, 1889
• The Di­vine En­ter­prise of Mis­sions, 1891
• Miracles of Mis­sions, 4 vol­umes, 1891–1901
• The Di­vine Art of Preach­ing, 1892
• From the Pul­pit to the Palm-Branch: Me­mo­ri­al of Charles H. Spur­ge­on, 1892
• The Heart of the Gos­pel, ser­mons, 1892
• New Acts of the Apos­tles, 1894
• The Co­ro­na­tion Hym­nal, with Ado­ni­ram Gor­don (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­eri­can Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­ci­ety, 1894)
• LifePower: or, Char­ac­ter, Cul­ture, and Con­duct, 1895
• Lessons in the School of Pray­er, 1895
• Acts of the Ho­ly Spir­it, 1895
• The Com­ing of the Lord, 1896
• Shall We Con­tin­ue in Sin?, 1897
• In Christ Je­sus: or, The Sphere of the Be­liev­er’s Life, 1898
• Catharine of Sie­na, an An­cient Lay Preach­er, 1898
• George Muell­er of Bris­tol (Old Tap­pan, New Jer­sey: Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1899)
• Forward Move­ments of the Last Half Cen­tu­ry, 1900
• Seed Thoughts for Pub­lic Speak­ers, 1900
• The Mo­dern Mis­sion Cen­tu­ry Viewed as a Cy­cle of Di­vine Work­ing, 1901
• The Gor­di­an Knot: or, The Prob­lem Which Baf­fles In­fi­del­ity, 1902
• The Kes­wick Move­ment in Pre­cept and Prac­tice, 1903
• God’s Liv­ing Ora­cles, 1904
• The Bi­ble and Spir­it­ual Cri­ti­cism, 1906
• The Bi­ble and Spir­it­ual Life, 1908
• Godly Self-Con­trol, 1909