Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#401

401. Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound

Text Information

• First Line: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
• Title: Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound
• Author (St. 1-4): John Newton (1779, alt.)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Source: St. 5, A Collection of Sacred Ballads, 1790

Tune Information

• Name: NEW BRITAIN
• Meter: CM
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: Shaw and Spilman's Columbian Harmony, Cincinnati, 1829; Harm. FCC, 1997
• Copyright: Harm. © 1998 FCC Houston TX

Text Information:

John Newton, an English Anglican pastor, had been a captain of a slave ship until he experienced an 'awakening' in a storm at sea. At age forty he was ordained into the ministry of the Church of England