
Newton and Polly
“Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found…”
Now remembered as the author of the world’s most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father—until the night he hears...
“Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found…”
Now remembered as the author of the world’s most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father—until the night he hears...