Introduction

Biography

Frank was the son of Will­iam Dun­ning Sew­all and Ra­chel Al­len Tru­fant, and hus­band of The­dia Re­de­lia Gil­christ (mar­ried 1869, Sta­ten Island, New York).

He gra­du­at­ed from Bow­doin Col­lege, Bruns­wick, Maine, in 1858, and pas­tored at the Glen­view Swe­den­bor­gi­an Church, Glen­view, Ohio.

He was pre­si­dent of Ur­ba­na Col­lege (now Ur­ba­na Uni­ver­si­ty) in Ur­ba­na, Ohio (1870–86), and lat­er pas­tor of the Swe­den­bor­gi­an Na­tion­al Church in Wash­ing­ton, D.C

Sewall trans­lat­ed sev­er­al of the theo­lo­gic­al works of Ema­nu­el Swe­den­borg in­to Eng­lish, as well as Im­ma­nu­el Kant’s Cri­tique of Pure Rea­son.

He wrote words or mu­sic for ov­er 20 hymns, and chaired the Swe­den­bor­gi­an Com­mit­tee of Wor­ship which com­piled The Mag­ni­fi­cat.

He al­so wrote sev­er­al child­ren’s books, in­clud­ing the Christ­mas sto­ry Moody Mike.