Newtons Grace
Audience Score
John Newton was a troubled young man with a violent temper and a penchant for vulgarity that literally made his fellow sailors blush Whipped for desertion and sold into slavery it seemed his life would end early in a West African graveuntil he was rescued by a ship captain sent by his father Following a powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea Newton would eventually become a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of several of the churchs most beloved hymns including Amazing Grace
