The Life of Jennie Ethel Ewing
MRS. CHAS. S. EWING
Jennie Edgar Moore was born in Randolph county, Illinois, October 7, 1864. When but an infant in ber mother's arms she came with her parents and some fifteen other families on a steamer to Kansas. This was a Godfearing band; almost all of them were Reformed Presbyterians. One family was United Presbyterians. A nephew of this family is the bereaved husband. Others of both churches came soon after and immediately houses of worship were built and the ordinances of God's appointment observed. Such were the people under whose training and influence Jennie grew into womanhood.
She was the third of six children. When still a child of seven years her father died, but the promise "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in . me"(Jer. 49:11) was wonderfully and graciously fulfilled. All were preserved alive and thus far, safe from those evils that imperil the soul, Jennie being the first called away.
Being "a child of tbe covenant" Jennie was admitted to the Reformed Presbyterian church at sixteen, having made a public profession of her faith in Christ.
At twenty she was united in marriage to Charles Samuel Ewing. Eleven years ago, along with her husband, she united with the United Presbyterian church of which she remained a consistant member till death. She never bad a poor pastor. For, no matter what the defects, she was not looking for them. Her reverence and love for God's house and God's ministers saved her from the spirit of criticism and worry.
It required no coaxing nor petting to secure her interest in the work of the church. She believed in being on time at Sabbath school, when it came before the preaching service and at preaching service when it came first. And she was never too busy on Friday or Saturday to attend services preparatory to the communion. Inclement weather and muddy roads were never thought of as providential indications that she should be absent from the Sanctuary on Sabbath.
These things are mentioned not 'by eulogy. She needs none. These are but the things that should mark any Christian life.
We all know her life, and those of us who witnessed its close desire above all things else to be able to meet death with the same triumph. But we can not expect to die the death of the righteous unless we live the life of the righteous, and the things mentioned are only such as are the common marks of the genuine Christian life. It was eminently fitting that one who was accustomed to be in God's house on the Sabbath should on that day enter upon that Sabbath which the Apostle says: 'Remaineth to the people of God.' (Heb. 4:9.)
J. A. W.
Olathe Miror
June 15, 1905
Page 1 col 6
A gloom has been cast over our neighborhood by the death of Mrs. Charles Ewmg, and the sympathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved ones, especially her aged mother who is one of the oldest settlers of this place.
Olathe Mirror
June 8, 1905
Page 6, col 4
Jennie Edgar Moore was born in Randolph county, Illinois, October 7, 1864. When but an infant in ber mother's arms she came with her parents and some fifteen other families on a steamer to Kansas. This was a Godfearing band; almost all of them were Reformed Presbyterians. One family was United Presbyterians. A nephew of this family is the bereaved husband. Others of both churches came soon after and immediately houses of worship were built and the ordinances of God's appointment observed. Such were the people under whose training and influence Jennie grew into womanhood.
She was the third of six children. When still a child of seven years her father died, but the promise "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in . me"(Jer. 49:11) was wonderfully and graciously fulfilled. All were preserved alive and thus far, safe from those evils that imperil the soul, Jennie being the first called away.
Being "a child of tbe covenant" Jennie was admitted to the Reformed Presbyterian church at sixteen, having made a public profession of her faith in Christ.
At twenty she was united in marriage to Charles Samuel Ewing. Eleven years ago, along with her husband, she united with the United Presbyterian church of which she remained a consistant member till death. She never bad a poor pastor. For, no matter what the defects, she was not looking for them. Her reverence and love for God's house and God's ministers saved her from the spirit of criticism and worry.
It required no coaxing nor petting to secure her interest in the work of the church. She believed in being on time at Sabbath school, when it came before the preaching service and at preaching service when it came first. And she was never too busy on Friday or Saturday to attend services preparatory to the communion. Inclement weather and muddy roads were never thought of as providential indications that she should be absent from the Sanctuary on Sabbath.
These things are mentioned not 'by eulogy. She needs none. These are but the things that should mark any Christian life.
We all know her life, and those of us who witnessed its close desire above all things else to be able to meet death with the same triumph. But we can not expect to die the death of the righteous unless we live the life of the righteous, and the things mentioned are only such as are the common marks of the genuine Christian life. It was eminently fitting that one who was accustomed to be in God's house on the Sabbath should on that day enter upon that Sabbath which the Apostle says: 'Remaineth to the people of God.' (Heb. 4:9.)
J. A. W.
Olathe Miror
June 15, 1905
Page 1 col 6
A gloom has been cast over our neighborhood by the death of Mrs. Charles Ewmg, and the sympathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved ones, especially her aged mother who is one of the oldest settlers of this place.
Olathe Mirror
June 8, 1905
Page 6, col 4
