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The man behind Amazing Grace: John Newton, who was once an atheist and slave trader, became a Christian minister and abolitionist. His testimony of that transformation is now a world-famous hymn.(History--Faith In Action)(Biography)
"The storms of life" is a common metaphor, but for a young English atheist and slave merchant named John Newton, it was a literal description. The ship he was traveling on--the Greyhound--was off the coast of Newfoundland. It was March 9, 1748.
Since Newton was a passenger, not a crewman, he had time to spare. Looking for something to do, he began reading The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis' classic study of spiritual life. Kempis' warnings of God's judgment disturbed Newton, who had been living a tempestuous life. He threw the book aside.
In the early roosting hours of the next day, a violent storm arose. The sea pounded the Greyhound so hard that ...
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