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Frank Sewall was an American Swedenborgian clergyman.
Background
He was born on September 24, 1837 in Bath, Maine, United States, the son of William Dunning and Rachel (Trufant) Sewall, and the brother of Arthur Sewall.
Significant for his later development were his upbringing in a family connected with the New Church in Bath from its earliest days, his early appreciation of nature, music, and art, and his years abroad.
Education
After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1858, he spent two years in travel in Italy and study at Tubingen in Germany under the great Swedenborg scholar, Johann Friedrich Immanuel Tafel. In 1862 he took the degree of A. M. at Bowdoin.
Career
Ordained on August 23, 1863, into the ministry of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America (Swedenborgian), he held pastorates in Glendale, Ohio, 1863-70; Urbana, Ohio, 1870-86; Glasgow, Scotland, 1886-87; and Washington, District of Columbia, 1889-1915.
Active in the larger concerns of the Church, he served as president (later called general pastor) of the Ohio Association in 1871 and 1872, and as general pastor of the Maryland Association from 1893 to 1915. His earliest published books were The Christian Hymnal (1867) and A Prayerbook and Hymnal for the Use of the New Church (1867).
He was the chairman and the guiding spirit of the two committees that produced the Magnificat (1910), a hymnal, and the Book of Worship (1912), authorized by the General Convention in 1912. To them he contributed not only his knowledge but many of his own compositions, both musical and literary.
He was also devoted to the cause of New Church education and worked for it throughout his life, especially during his years as president of Urbana (Ohio) University, 1870-86. In 1896 he published The Angel of the State; or the Kindergarten in the Education of the Citizen.
Another major interest was philosophy, particularly that of Swedenborg. Products of this interest were The New Metaphysics (1888), Swedenborg and Modern Idealism (1902), a translation of Swedenborg's De Anima under the title of The Soul, or Rational Psychology (1887), and the introduction and notes to Emanual F. Goerwitz's translation of Immanuel Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (London, 1900).
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Views
He looked forward to the day when human society would be so organized as to give expression to Swedenborg's doctrine of love as the ultimate reality of the universe, and he saw that to bring about such a result and to live in such a world made demands on education which traditional forms were not prepared to meet.
Personality
He had not only a keen mind but also a warm human sympathy.
Connections
In 1869 he married Thedia Redelia Gilchrist, a sister of William Wallace Gilchrist; He had five daughters.