Amazing Grace — a hymn for the New Year (1773!)

Posted on December 29, 2012 
Filed under History, Resources

John Newton wrote his most famous hymn, Amazing Grace, 240 years ago.

Over at The John Newton Project, you can read his original words, as well as extracts from his diary for 1st January 1773. He wrote the hymn to accompany his sermon on 1 Chronicles 17. See the video (2:18) here.