Amazing Grace Chime

This chime plays the inspiring tones heard in the opening measures of Amazing Grace. Although the melody is of unknown origin, the lyrics were penned by Englishman John Newton in the late 18th century. As a sailor aboard a slave ship, Newton underwent a spiritual awakening while in a storm at sea. Years later, after he had denounced the slave trade and become an ordained minister, it was this experience that Newton recalled when he wrote, “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound . . .”

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8