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Carolina Sandell

1823 - 1903 Person Name: Lina Sandell Author of "Security" in Hymns for the Family of God Caroline W. Sandell Berg (b. Froderyd, Sweden, 1832; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 1903), is better known as Lina Sandell, the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden." "Lina" Wilhelmina Sandell Berg was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor to whom she was very close; she wrote hymns partly to cope with the fact that she witnessed his tragic death by drowning. Many of her 650 hymns were used in the revival services of Carl O. Rosenius, and a number of them gained popularity particularly because of the musical settings written by gospel singer Oskar Ahnfelt. Jenny Lind, the famous Swedish soprano, underwrote the cost of publishing a collection of Ahnfelt's music, Andeliga Sänger (1850), which consisted mainly of Berg's hymn texts. Bert Polman

Bryan Jeffery Leech

1931 - 2015 Translator (st. 2, 3) of "Security" in Hymns for the Family of God Bryan Jeffrey Leech was born in Middlesex, England in 1931. He came to the United States in 1955 and studied at Barrington College and North Park Seminary. He was ordained in 1961 and served in the Covenant Church. He composed more than 500 songs. Dianne Shapiro

Anonymous

Person Name: Source Unknown Composer of "BERGEN MA VIKA" in Hymns for the Family of God In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Lina Sandell Berg

Person Name: Lina Sandell Author of "Great hills may tremble and mountains may crumble" in The Hymnal of the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America See Sandell, Carolina, 1832-1903