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aboard the HMS Harwich. Newton gan to believe that God had addres-
transferred to the Pegasus, a slave sed him though the storm and that
ship bound for West Africa. New- grace had began a work in him.
ton, was a continual problem for the Newton began to read the Scriptures
crew of Pegasus, and they left him in and other religious literature. New-
West Africa with Amos Clowe, a ton marked that day for the rest of
slave trader. There Newton was his life as the day of his conversion,
treated as a slave himself. Newton to which Newton referred to as his
later remembered this as the time he “Great Deliverance”.
was “Once an infidel and libertine, a There is much more concerning
servant of slaves in West Africa”. John Newton’s life, but we see here
It is alleged that Newton’s father of the
sent a friend to find John and bring
him back to England. What we do Providence of God bringing about
know is that in 1748 Newton was the foundation for that Christian Ant-
aboard the merchant ship hem: Amazing Grace. You and I who
Greyhound, sailing for England. are saved, can agree with Newton,
The ship encountered a severe storm though we may not have the same back-
and nearly sank. He recorded in his ground as he, that it was the Amazing
journal that when all seemed lost he Grace of God that saved a wretch like
exclaimed, “Lord, have mercy upon me. I once was lost, but now am found,
us.” The ship did not sink and New- was blind but now I see. Maran-atha,
ton was saved. Newton began to AMEN!
reflect on what he had said and be-
BY PASTOR NATHANIEL HILLE

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