{"id":1790197,"date":"2022-12-30T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790197"},"modified":"2022-12-30T07:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:03:35","slug":"the-most-famous-new-years-day-hymn-amazing-grace-celebrates-250-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-famous-new-years-day-hymn-amazing-grace-celebrates-250-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Famous New Year\u2019s Day Hymn, \u2018Amazing Grace,\u2019 Celebrate 250 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-most-famous-new-years-day-hymn-amazing-grace-celebrates-250-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Anglican priest and former slave ship captain John Newton\u2019s hymn, \u2018Amazing Grace,\u2019 It has been sung over 10 million times in 250 years.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor of a large rural congregation was preparing his New Year\u2019s Day sermon, based on the Old Testament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Chronicles+17%3A16-17&#038;version=KJV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">text<\/a>, 1 Chronicles 17:16-17. He wrote a hymn as a way to accompany his message, something he did often. He didn&#8217;t know that the simple hymn he wrote would become a beloved hymn throughout the world for 250 years. \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, January 1, 2023 marks the 250th anniversary this hymn was written by Rev. John Newton was an Anglican priest who was also a former captain on slave ships. He later joined William Wilberforce, and helped abolish slavery in Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newton wrote \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d for his Anglican congregation \u2014 St. Peter and Paul Church in Olney Buckinghamshire, England \u2014 to sing on New Year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk\/john-newton-1725-1807\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Day<\/a>, Jan. 1, 1773.\u00a0The life of a wicked seafaring blasphemer who was saved from a terrible storm took a dramatic twist when he was reunited with King David. \u201cWho am I, O Lord God\u2026that you have brought me thus far?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Amazing grace, the sound is so sweet<br \/><\/em>This saved me, a wretch like myself!<em><br \/><\/em>I once was lost but now I\u2019m found,<em><br \/><\/em>Was blind before I saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazing Grace\u201d This hymn is a praise to God for his mercy, which eclipsed Newton&#8217;s wretched and heathenish life on the seas. \u201cI can see no reason why the Lord singled me out for mercy\u2026unless it was to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/anauthenticnarr00newtgoog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show<\/a>, by one astonishing instance, that with him \u2018nothing is impossible\u2019\u201d Newton wrote his true story about his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Twas grace that taught my heart to fear<br \/>And grace my fears relieved<br \/>How precious did that grace appear<br \/>The hour I first believed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazing Grace\u201d has a universal appeal. It has been sung an estimated more than 10 million times and recorded on more than 7,000 albums, according to Newton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytranslations.com\/blog\/the-most-translated-songs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biographer<\/a> Jonathan Aitken. It\u2019This song has been sung many times by the U.S. president, folk musicians, rock and rolling stars, and many congregations all around the world. <\/p>\n<p>It was during the Covid lockdowns <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BA7pdABvpnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recorded<\/a> by 50 countries&#8217; singers with the message \u201cthe amazing grace and love of Jesus is stronger than life and death itself.\u201d \u00a0Translated into more than 50 languages, including <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NtNuELl5he0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inuit<\/a>It was even played by NASA Astronaut Kjell Lundgren on the bagpipes at the International Space Station<\/p>\n<p> The Olney Hymnbook published the hymn in 1779. Public domain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazing Grace\u201d It was the topic of the 2006 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/news\/amazing-grace-story-john-newton.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">film<\/a> The musical starred Albert Finney in the role of Newton. It was also featured on Broadway&#8217;s 2015 musical of the name. Uncle Tom sang it in Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s abolitionist book, \u201cUncle Tom\u2019s Cabin.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Judy Collins, folk singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2002\/12\/29\/894060\/amazing-grace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> The song is the \u201cpower to transform and heal,\u201d Recorded a soulful version of \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d It spent 67 weeks on the pop charts in the United States, and in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican priest and former slave ship captain John Newton&#8217;s hymn, &#8216;Amazing Grace,&#8217; has been sung more than 10 million times over 250 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":1790200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[11056,5574,8088,7660,6384,6919,6383,12482,4346],"class_list":["post-1790197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-11056","tag-amazing","tag-celebrate","tag-day","tag-famous","tag-federalist","tag-grace","tag-hymn","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}