Rettende Gnade

Translator: Herman von Berge

Herman von Berge was born in Germany. He graduated from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, a German Baptist seminary. He was a minister, a professor at Colgate-Rochester, a composer, and editor at Lorenz Music Publishing. From "Life as a Baptist Pastor, Composer Brings Tribute to Von Berge" by Anne Hitch, Journal Herald Staff Writer, accessed March 19, 2022 from Dearest Irma: letters my grandmother saved" (https://dearestirma.wordpress.com/tag/herman-von-berge/) Go to person page >

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >