Bergen må vika och högarne falla

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Bergen må vika och högarne falla

Author: Carolina Sandell
Tune: [Bergen må vika och högarna falla]
Published in 4 hymnals

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Audio files: MIDI

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1 "Bergen må vika och högarna falla,
Evig min nåd och min trofasthet är;
Aldrig förbundet af frid skall förfalla,"
Så säger Herren, din Frälsare kär.

2 Hjälp mig, o Jesus, att gömma de orden,
Lär mig att rätt taga fasta på dem;
Och när jag slutat min vandring på jorden,
Låt mig i tron på det löftet gå hem!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15489

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Author: Carolina Sandell

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 Go to person page >

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