Introduction

Biography

Stewart was con­vict­ed of sin at age 19, but did not ac­cept Christ for a few years. He des­cribes his con­ver­sion ex­pe­ri­ence:

I was ly­ing on my bed one day in sore an­xi­e­ty of soul when that Scrip­ture came to me, It is fin­ished, and im­me­di­at­ely I en­tered in­to peace.

I saw for the first time I was 1800 years on the oth­er side of a fin­ished work. I had been look­ing for­ward to some­thing to be done by me, where­as I now saw that the work had been fin­ished by an­oth­er, the Lord Je­sus Christ, on the Cross of Cal­va­ry.

After con­ver­sion, he be­gan at­tend­ing church, and lat­er joined As­sem­bly of Ex­clu­sive Breth­ren in Sauch­ie­hall Street, Glas­gow. Short­ly there­af­ter, he be­gan op­en air preach­ing at Phoe­nix Cor­ner, Cow­cad­dens, Glas­gow, lat­er in Clar­en­don Hall and Un­ion Hall.

He was fre­quent­ly in poor health, though, and spent eight months in Aus­tral­ia around 1870, hop­ing to re­co­ver his strength, then re­turned to Scot­land. Lat­er in life, he moved to Prest­wick, Ayr­shire.

Works

Stewart was a well known preach­er and writ­er, con­trib­ut­ing to The Wit­ness and The Be­liev­ers Hymn Book.

His oth­er works in­clude:

• The Shep­herd Rule of the Lord Je­sus (Kil­mar­nock, Scot­land: The Young Watch­man Of­fice, 1870)
• Addresses De­liv­ered at a Chris­tian Con­fer­ence Held at Pais­ley, Sa­tur­day, 7th Ap­ril, 1877, with Hen­ry Groves & Hen­ry Dy­er (Pais­ley, Scot­land: J. & R. Par­lane, 1877)
• Israel: A Sketch of Their Past-Pre­sent-Fu­ture (Glas­gow, Scot­land: Pick­er­ing & In­glis)
• The Fel­low­ship of the Saints of God, with Hen­ry Groves (Bath, Eng­land)
• The Build­ing of the Wall: Be­ing the Sub­stance of an Ad­dress on Ne­he­mi­ah (Glas­gow, Scot­land: Pick­er­ing & In­glis)