John Newton was born in 1725. On September 3, 2020, my favorite blogger, Jim Denison, wrote about an event which occurred in Newton’s life on the same day 272 year earlier, September 3, 1748. Newton, who was the captain of a slave ship, encountered such a violent storm he feared he and his crew were going to die. Amid the howling wind and towering waves— Newton recalled the lessons his godly mother had taught him when he was just a boy. He begged, “Lord, have mercy upon us.” He believed God spoke to him through the storm— and from that day forward was a changed man.
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