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John Newton, 1725 - 1807.
Notes from Dr. Julian's Hymnology:
John Newton was born in London, July 24th. 1725 and died there on Dec. 21st.
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1807. He occupied a unique position among the founders of the Evangelical School, due as much to the romance of his young life and the striking history of his conversion, as to his force of character. His mother, a pious Dissenter, stored his childish mind with Scripture, but died when he was seven years old.
At the age of 11, after two years' schooling, during which he learned the rudiments of Latin, he went to sea with his father.
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His life at sea teems with wonderful escapes, vivid dreams and sailor recklessness. He grew into an abandoned and godless sailor. The religious fits of his boyhood changed into settled infidelity, through the study of Shaftesbury and the instruction of one of his comrades.
Disappointing repeatedly the plans of his father, he was flogged as a deserter from the Navy, and for fifteen months lived, half-starved and il