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.

• Erickson, pp. 384-86
• Hustad, p. 205

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. Give, O Lord, un­to Thy Ser­vant
8. Herre, sam­la oss nu al­la
   • Now Be­fore Thee, Lord, We Ga­ther
9. In the Spring­time Fair
10. Jerusalem, Je­ru­sa­lem
11. Jesus för värl­den giv­it sitt liv
12. Jesus, in Still­ness, Long­ing I Wait
13. Kommer du ej snart
    • Hide Not Thy Face, O My Sav­ior
14. Låt mig bör­ja med dig
    • I with Thee Would Be­gin
15. Låtom oss sjun­ga
    • Come, Let Us Praise Him
16. Medan all­ting ler och blom­mar
17. Others He Hath Suc­cored
18. Strait Is the Gate to All That Come
19. Tilkomme ditt rike, o Herre vår Gud
    • O Fa­ther, Thy King­dom Is Come up­on Earth
20. Tryggare kan ing­en va­ra
    • Children of the Hea­ven­ly Fa­ther
21. Vem klap­par så sak­ta i af­ton­ens frid
22. When All the World Is Sleep­ing