The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is a book by Reuben Archer Torrey published in 1895 by Fleming Revell. One of Torrey's earliest publications, it has remained in print and been especially influential among Pentecostal and charismatic Christians. In it, Torrey teaches his characteristic view that there is a distinct experience of being baptized with the Holy Spirit available to every believer after salvation. The experience is an empowering for service. Although Torrey is clear that there is an initial experience which a believer should pray through until he is distinctly aware of having received, he also emphasizes the need for continuous re-fillings or "fresh baptisms."

Introduction

It was a great turning point in my ministry,when, after much thought and study and meditation, I became satisfied that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit was an experience for today and for me, and set myself about obtaining it. Such blessing came to me personally, that I began giving Bible readings on the subject, and with increasing frequency as the years have passed. God in His wondrous grace has so greatly blessed these readings, and so many have asked for them in printed form, convenient for circulation among their friends, that I have decided to write them out in full for publication. It is an occasion of great joy that so many and such excellent books on the person and work of the Holy Spirit have appeared of late. I wish to call especial attention to two of these: "Through the Eternal Spirit," by James Elder Cumming and "The Spirit of Christ," by Andrew Murray.

In the following pages I speak uniformly of the Holy Spirit, but in the quotations from the Bible retain the less desirable phraseology there used — "The Holy Ghost" — except in those instances where the translators themselves varied their usage. Probably most of the readers of this book already know that "the Holy Spirit" and "the Holy Ghost" are simply two different translations of precisely the same Greek words. It seems very unfortunate, and almost unaccountable, that the English revisers did not follow the suggestion of the American Committee, and, for " Holy Ghost ", adopt uniformly the rendering "Holy Spirit."

Contents

Introduction
Chapter I: The Baptism with the Holy Spirit: What it is and What it does

Chapter II: The Necessity and Possibility of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit

Chapter III: How the Baptism with the Holy Spirit can be Obtained

Chapter IV: "Fresh Baptisms with the Holy Spirit," or the Refilling with the Holy Spirit

Chapter V: How Spiritual Power is Lost