Amazing Grace
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"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779 by the English clergyman John Newton. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that th
Page 53 of Olney Hymns showing the first stanza of the hymn beginning with "Amazing Grace!"
John Newton in his later years
The vicarage in Olney, where Newton wrote the hymn that would become "Amazing Grace"
An 1847 publication of Southern Harmony, showing the title "New Britain" and shape note music.
Second Great Awakening
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The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival during the late 18th and early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of
Amazing Grace
…and Cowper's Olney Hymns, but settled into relative obscurity in England. In the United States however, "Amazing Grace" was used extensively during the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century. It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named "New Britain" to which it is…
1839 Methodist camp meeting
Camp meeting of the Methodists in N. America J. Milbert del M. Dubourg sculp