Lina was the daugh­ter of Jo­nas San­dell, pas­tor of the Lu­ther­an church in Fröd­eryd. At age 26, she ac­com­pa­nied her fa­ther on a boat trip across Lake Vättern to Gö­te­borg, dur­ing which he fell over­board and drowned be­fore her eyes. The tra­ge­dy pro­found­ly af­fect­ed Lina and re­port­ed­ly in­spired her to write hymns. Known as the Fan­ny Cros­by of Swe­den, she wrote 650 hymns. She mar­ried Stock­holm mer­chant C. O. Berg in 1867, but con­tin­ued to in­i­tial her hymns “L. S.”

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Hymns

1. Är det sant att Jesus är min broder
2. Bergen må vika
   • Great Hills May Tremble
3. Blott en dag
   • Day by Day
4. Bred di­na vi­da vin­gar
   • Thy Holy Wings, Dear Sav­ior
5. Du öm­ma fa­ders­hjär­ta
   • Thou Ten­der, Gra­cious Fa­ther
6. Förlossningen är vunnen
7. Herre, samla oss nu alla
   • Now Be­fore Thee, Lord, We Ga­ther
8. Jerusalem, Je­ru­sa­lem
9. Jesus för världen givit sitt liv
10. Kommer du ej snart
    • Hide Not Thy Face, O My Savior
11. Låt mig börja med dig
    • I With Thee Would Be­gin
12. Låtom oss sjunga
    • Come, Let Us Praise Him
13. Medan allting ler och blommar
14. Strait Is the Gate to All That Come
15. Tilkomme ditt rike, o Herre vår Gud
    • O Fa­ther, Thy King­dom Is Come upon Earth
16. Tryggare kan ing­en va­ra
    • Children of the Heav­en­ly Fa­ther (© 1925)
17. Vem klappar så sakta i aftonens frid