AMAZING GRACE TOTE BAG

AMAZING GRACE-----"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written in 1772 by English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807). Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He had grown up without any particular religious conviction, and was conscripted into service in the Royal Navy. After leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy. This moment marked his spiritual conversion but he continued slave trading until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether. He then began studying Christian theology.