Rev. Frank J. Ewart

Frank J. Ewart was born in 1887, in Bendigo Victoria Australia. His father was Scotch and his mother was of Irish descent. He received his first credentials to preach from the Baptist headquarters in Winnipeg, Canada and began his ministry as a bush missionary. He had only preached for the Baptists a short time when he heard about the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. After hearing about a large camp meeting in Portland, Oregon, he decided to attend.

It was not long until he was gloriously filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in several known languages, some of which were interpreted that night. After he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1908, he was dismissed by the Baptist organization.

In 1911, he became the assistant pastor to William H. Durham in Los Angeles, California. After Brother Durum’s death in 1912, Brother Ewart became the pastor. In 1913, he heard R. E. McAllister preach at the Arroyo Seco camp meeting on water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. In April of 1914, Brother Ewart and Glenn Cook re-baptized each other in the name of Jesus.

Jesus Name baptism became known as the “new issue”. The revelation of the name of Jesus brought a great crisis in his life, but being the editor of a paper named Meat in Due Season, he used it to spread the glorious news of what God had revealed to him. Persecution became severe, but from that day until his passing, he was a staunch supporter of the great Truth of God being manifested in the flesh and baptism in the name of Jesus. He said the year that he received this great experience of the infilling of the Holy Ghost at camp meeting in Portland Oregon, Christ stepped out of the mist of theological speculation and became the greatest reality of his life.

He wrote hundreds of faith-building and inspirational articles and was the author of a number of books, the last one being the Phenomenon of Pentecost, a history of the latter rain, which was written in 1946.

Frank Ewart died in 1947 at age seventy-one. His closest friend, Harry Morse, preached the funeral service in Monterey Park just outside of Los Angeles, in the church where he preached during the final years of his ministry.