Albertini

Of the Moravian hymn-writers, the best are Louisa von Hayn, a convert of Zinzendorf's, and for many years the superintendent of the Unmarried Sisters' House at Herrnhut; Christian Gregor, the next bishop of the Church after Spangenberg, who wrote that touching hymn, "Ah, dearest Lord! to feel that Thou art near;" Albertini, his successor in the episcopal office, who died in 1831; and Garve, who died in 1842. Of these Albertini ranks the highest as a poet; he was a man of great and varied learning, and a friend of Schleiermacher's, who asked to have Albertini's hymns read to him on his death-bed. We give one:--