Out of the Depths

';Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me' So begins one of the most beloved hymns of all time. This is the autobiography of the man who penned those words. John Newton, the self-proclaimed ';wretch,' was an active slave trader for several years until, on a homeward voyage through a violent storm, he experienced what he was later to refer to as his ';great deliverance.' He tells of the events that led him from sin and bondage to a life transformed by God's amazing grace.