From a troubled childhood, to enforced service in the Royal Navy where he was such a blasphemous troublemaker that he was traded to a slave ship, God pursued John Newton with relentless love. The worst of the worst, Newton became a ringing voice for God, testifying of his transformation in the stirring hymn 'Amazing Grace.' His cry for abolition, along with the work of William Wilberforce, helped turn the heart of a nation against the African slave trade, to bring it to an end.
