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"Amazing Grace"

“Amazing Grace” is a Christian hymn published in 1799, with words written by the English poet, sailor and clergyman, John Newton. At age eleven, Newton first went to sea with his father. Newton sailed six voyages before his father retired in 1742. At the time, Newton’s father made plans for him to work at a sugarcane plantation in Jamaica. Instead, Newton signed on with a merchant ship sailing to the Mediterranean Sea. In 1743, while vising friends, Newton was captured and pressed into service in the Royal Navy. In 1748 a violent storm off the coast of Ireland battering the vessel Newton was serving. The ship was damage so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion. Shortly, thereafter, Newton returned to Liverpool, England, where he obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship, Brownlow. At the time, Liverpool was a major hub of the Triangle Trade which carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean and the American colonies. It was during one of his slave-trade voyages to West Africa that Newton acknowledged the inadequacy of his spiritual life and professed his full belief in Christ, asking God to take control of his destiny. Newton did not, however, immediately renounce working in the slave trade. After his return to England in 1750, he made three more voyages as captain of two different slave ships. It wasn’t until he ended his seafaring altogether in 1754 that Newton renounce slave trading and he began studying Christian theology. “During the time I was engaged in the slave trade, I never had the least scruple as to its lawfulness”, states Newton. After becoming an evangelical minister and looking back at his early life with horror did he write his great hymn, Amazing Grace and the words, “I once was lost but now am found.” Amazing Grace debuted in print in 1779 but settled into relative obscurity in England. In the United States, however, Amazing Grace was sung extensively during the Second Great Awakening in the late 18th and early 19th century. With the message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that our soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, “Amazing Grace” is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.