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Amazing Apology
By T. Sulman – Martin, Bernard (1950), John Newton: A Biography, William Heineman, Ltd., illustration between pages 222 and 223., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11258269
The man who wrote the words of “Amazing Grace” was a reformed English slave trader. He wrote the following:
It’s the most abject, poignant, unvarnished, soul-baring, unsparing, uncowardly and realistic apology uttered by mortal man that I have encountered. The moist evasions drooled through clenched teeth by today’s “men” reek of slobber by comparison. A world in which “I’m sorry that you were offended” is the excuse for so much offense is a sorry world.
If there’s a heaven, I hope John Newton looks down from it. Our misery and mischief are enduring, but his words were an atonement.
(c) 2019 JMN
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I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.