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Joseph Sandell
Remembered as one of Sweden’s best-loved hymn writers, she wrote with unusual warmth and intimacy, turning personal faith and sorrow into songs that have lasted for generations. Her hymns, including "Day by Day" and "Children of the Heavenly Father," continue to be sung far beyond Scandinavia.
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Memoranda of art and artists, anecdotal and biographical
by Joseph Sandell
About the author
Born in Sweden in 1832, Lina Sandell — formally Carolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg — became a major voice in the country’s Christian revival movement. She was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor, and her writing grew out of a deeply religious home life shaped by reading, reflection, and hymn singing.
She is especially known for the emotional honesty and gentle trust that run through her hymns. A painful turning point in her life came when she witnessed her father’s drowning, and that loss is often linked to the tender, dependent faith heard in many of her best-known texts.
Over her lifetime, she wrote hundreds of hymns and devotional songs, earning a reputation sometimes compared to Fanny Crosby’s in the English-speaking world. Though rooted in nineteenth-century Sweden, her work has endured because it speaks simply and directly about comfort, grief, and confidence in God.