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2007

Amazing Grace   Read Transcript

14/10/2007
A deserter, slave-trader and atheist, John Newton, born in 1725, would become a Christian by the age of 25. He settled back in England, became a vicar, and in 1772 wrote the hymn Amazing Grace. Newton was also behind the first Christian service conducted in the colony of New South Wales.