“She was only 22″

an excerpt from the story of Helen Ewan written by James Alexander Stewart

After her conversion at the age of fourteen, Helen’s whole personality was radiant with the glory of the Lord. Many testified that just her passing smile, or her cheery, ‘Good day. God bless you’ was an uplifting tonic to them the rest of the day.
In her prayer life, Helen was such an example to us all. She arose each morning around five o’clock to commune with her Lord. She would not put on the heat in her little cold room or seek to make herself comfortable in any way, feeling she could be more alert in the cold. And besides, those for whom she would be praying in foreign lands were not sitting in comfort.
She would begin her communion with praise and worship. She then read the Word to warm her heart. She remembered the words of her fellow Scot, Robert Murray McCheyne, ‘it is the look that saves, but it is the gaze that sanctifies’. Helen gazed with rapture into the face of her Lord. I could not mention to you the expressions of adoration which she wrote down in her diary after such times with her Lord. They are too sacred for publication.

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