John Newton—Through many dangers - Coloring book

Rejecting his mother’s Christian faith, John became a reckless, blasphemoussailor and an evangelist for unbelief. Press-ganged onto a man-of-war, hefaced death in naval battle, was flogged for deserting his ship, and eventuallyenslaved and starved in Africa. All because of his passion for ‘Polly’—a girlbeyond his reach. Later, as a slave-ship captain, John’s life was threatened bymutinous crews, callous traders, desperate slaves, Barbary pirates, tropical diseases and violent storms. John’s encounter with God in an Atlantic storm transformed him to become the caring Christian pastor of the most influential church in the country. Among his congregation, he could number a Lord Mayor, prominent politicians, wealthy bankers, a national poet, a leading playwright and hundreds of the laboring poor. John’s unfading love for his wife, his wise counsel, his hymns and correspondence and his fight against the slave-trade, influenced the lives of thousands in his day. More than two hundred years a