AN EPITAPH TO GRACE

In a small cemetery of a parish churchyard in Olney, England, stands a granite tombstone w/ this inscription:

“John Newton, clerk [pastor], once an infidel & Libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the Faith he had long labored to

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