[1] Ewart was born in Australia in 1876 and worked as a Baptist bush missionary until he immigrated to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1903, where he pastored a Baptist church and married Violet May.
With declining health, Ewart was furloughed in 1908, during which he attended a Pentecostal camp meeting in Portland, Oregon, where he converted to Pentecostalism, resulting in his dismissal from the Baptist church he was pastoring.
McAlister give the initial sermon on Jesus' Name doctrine.
[1][2][3] During and after the meeting, Ewart, McAlister, and later Glenn Cook met and refined the new Jesus' Name doctrine.
[2][4] As well as preaching, Ewart created Meat in Due Season, a periodical that advocated for the Jesus' Name doctrine and had a global reach persuading many Pentecostals including G.T Haywood, Frank Small, Elmer K. Fisher, E.N.