Frank Ewart And Apostolic Restoration
 

Many today are not aware of the role of Frank Ewart to Apostolic Oneness. Actually he was a reformer and brought restoration of the truth of Oneness doctrine and Acts 2:38 to the modern world.

In 1913 he along with several other Pentecostal Ministers received the revelation of Oneness as we teach it today. Not that it was ever completely lost as no doubt there were small flickers of truth here and there all through the centuries.

What Ewart and associates did in the early 20th century was to bring Oneness doctrine and Acts 2:38 to many people around the world with the accompanying doctrine of baptism in Jesus name. This had not been done for many centuries.

He started as a Baptist Preacher in Australia and moved to Canada. From there he came to Oregon and received the Holy Spirit baptism. He came to know and work with many in the early Pentecostal movement. When the Oneness revelation came forth he was known as the "ringleader" of the Ministers who accepted the truth.

Information about him seems to be limited to his book "The Phenomenon Of Pentecost". I remember seeing on this board that Bro. Strange an elder member here had met him as a young man.

It seems odd that little is ever said or wrote about this man as important as his contribution to the truth was in those early days of the movement. I think his role as a reformer to New Testament truth was far more significant than Martin Luther whose reformation seemed to not go very far in the Apostolic truth.

Your thought?

I am priviliged to own a original copy of his book Phenomenom of Pentecost. He was a great man. My grandfather met him in his youth.

Keith,

I read his book back in about 1981 the first time when first getting into the Oneness movement. It was a real eye opener to Pentecostal history. I have read it three or four times sice then. It was first published in 1947.

I have some of his originals and even have one with his autograph to my father.

Luther, with his many faults, contributed much more. He affected all of western society. Ewart just a small part.....plus he was wrong.

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Another Pentecostal Pioneer bites the dust. You know... no wonder it seems the Pentecostal Movement seems to be on shaky ground. Our foundation is being eroded away.... not from the winds and rain of false doctrine... but by the very people who benefit today by the sacrifices of those who blazed the trail for us. I may not agree with everything that was taught by the Parhams, the Seymours, the Goss's, the Garfields and the Ewarts, but I'll always be thankful that they went before us and helped to build the Apostolic Way on solid ground.

We so do forget there were influences before 1901 that created the way we view many things today. Many have no recolllection of The Great Awakening, The Second Great Awakening, The Welsh Revival or how these events changed the then known world.

Instead we have hundreds even perhaps thousands of uninformed zombies on pews in cold POWERLESS churches.

I think of these Pentecostal Pioneers as the building blocks of todays Apostolic Movement. They preached and taught what they knew, often under unbearable circumstances. Their churches were not air conditioned, the pews were unpadded. They preached in tattered tents, on street corners. They broke ice to baptize converts in rivers and lakes. They walked to preach. And they trusted God to feed and clothe them. They built churches... didn't hire contractors... they literally Built churches, often with a hammer and a dull handsaw. They preached in the face of opposition that would make many of us cower under the benches. They did it without a salary and without a retirement plan. They did it because they loved the lost. They did it because they were called of God. And what do we do in gratitude? We dismiss them with smaugness. WE are so much more spiritual than they. We are more enlightened than they were. These men and women who hazarded their lives for US. Wrong? Could have been. But I'd rather be wrong in my doctrine than in my spirit. Shame on us if we look down on these Spiritual Giants in whose steps we should be following. But, no, we are too busy wiping away their foot prints. In so doing...we are losing our way.

On CAF their is a member that his grandfather pastored the church that Ewart had pastored in the LA area.