Jan­u­a­ry 7, 1875, near At­lan­ta, Georg­ia.

May 11, 1938, Tem­ple, Georg­ia.

Sewell stu­died mu­sic with An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter and, af­ter work­ing as a mer­chant and far­mer, served as an evan­gel­is­tic sing­er with Rev. Charles Dun­a­way, start­ing in 1909. He worked in the evan­gel­ism field through­out the south­ern Unit­ed States for over 25 years, and wrote some 500 songs. His works in­clude:

• Hymns of Glo­ry (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1909)
• Hymns of Glo­ry No. 2 (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1914)
• World Re­viv­al Hymns (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: Hamp Sew­ell, 1918)
• The Ex­cell Hym­nal, with Ed­win Ex­cell & W. E. M. Hack­le­man (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: E. O. Ex­cell Com­pa­ny, 1925)

• Reynolds, p. 425

1. He In­clud­ed Me
2. I Am the Way
3. In Sin I Once Had Wan­dered
4. Lift Me High­er
5. Sweeter as the Days Go By
6. There Is Room in His Heart for You