God calling yet

God calling yet. Gerhard Tersteegen* (1697-1769), translated by Sarah Laurie Findlater* (1823-1907), altered by Lowell Mason* (1792-1872) and co-editors.  This translation of Tersteegen’s ‘Gott rufet noch. Sollt ich nicht endlich hören’* was first published in the Second Series of Hymns from the Land of Luther (1855). The hymns in that book were translated by both Findlater and her older sister, Jane Laurie Borthwick*, but there is no doubt of the authorship of the present hymn because Borthwick assisted James Mearns* in distinguishing between those by herself and those of her sister (JJ, p. 163). Mearns described this as one of Findlater’s most popular hymns (p.163). Discussing it as a...