Through Many Dangers The Story of John Newton
By Brian H. Edwards.
Description
A common sailor at the age of eleven and press-ganged onto a man-of-war at nineteen, John Newton experienced the thrill of Action against French's warships, The cruel lash of navy discipline for desertion, the loose and baasphemous, life of a free thinker, and the pain of an overwhelming love for a girl beyond his reach. Rejecting God and morality, Newton entered the slave-trade, became a slave himself and by the age of twenty-three was little removed from the state of a wild animal. A violent Atlantic storm brought Newton to his knees and to his God. With changing life and growing fai...
ISBN(s)
0852340699, 9780852340691
