Frank Sewall

1837-1915

Born: September 24, 1837, Bath, Maine. Died: December 7, 1915, Washington DC. Buried: Possibly Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sewall graduated from Bowdoin College in 1858, and served as pastor of the Glenview Swedenborgian Church in Glenview, Ohio. He went on to become president of Urbana College (now Urbana University) in Urbana, Ohio (1870-1886), 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 Moody Mike (a Christmas story).

Hymns:

1. Child and the Shepherd, The
2. How the Lord from Heaven Came
3. Jerusalem, Thou City Bright
4. Morn of Joy
5. O Wonder Amazing
6. Roll Out, O Song, to God!

Music:

1. Arise, All Souls, Arise
2. Blessed City
3. Come Children, with Singing
4. O Jesus, Lord and Savior
5. Savior and Regenerator
6. Sewall
7. St. Cecilia (Sewall)
8. Sursum Corda (Sewall)