March 16 , 1869, Na­per­ville, Il­li­nois.

February 13, 1954, Mount Ver­non, In­di­a­na.

Horst­mann was ed­u­cat­ed at North­west­ern Coll­ege (now North Cen­tral Coll­ege), Elm­hurst Coll­ege, and Eden The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­ary. Or­dained in 1931, he served church­es in In­di­a­na and Tex­as in his ear­ly ca­reer. He ed­it­ed The Evan­gel­i­cal Her­ald of the Evan­gel­i­cal Syn­od of North Amer­i­ca (1906-35), and was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of The Mess­en­ger of the Evan­gel­i­cal and Re­formed Church (1936-9). A num­ber of Horst­mann’s hymns ap­peared in The Evan­gel­i­cal Hymn­al (St. Lou­is, Mis­souri: Eden Pub­lish­ing House, 1917). His works in­clude:

• The Will of God, 1925
• Through Four Cen­tu­ries: The Sto­ry of the Be­gin­nings of the Evan­gel­i­cal and Re­formed Church, with Her­bert Wer­necke (Saint Lou­is, Mis­sou­ri: Eden Pub­lish­ing House, 1938)

• Haeussler, pp. 725-6

1. Be Thou Faithful un­to Death

1. Behold, How Good and Plea­sant
2. Best of Friends I Have in Hea­ven, The
3. God of Might, We Praise Thy Name
4. Striving On­ward, Press­ing For­ward
5. Take Thou My Hand and Lead Me
6. Thy Bless­ing, O Lord
7. Wait on God
8. Work Is Thine, O Christ Our Lord, The