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[Music] [Music] Newton was born in 1725 in Wapping about a mile downriver from the Tower of London right by the Thames Wapping was at that time er a little kind of hamlet or there was a very busy waterfront a ship's a day were coming in and out of London at that point John Newton as a little boy could walk down to execution dock pensee mutineers and pirates hanging in chains until three tides had washed over them his father was a sea captain we don't know much about his father Newton held him in both fear or and respect his mother was a very godly woman Elizabeth she took John Newton as a little boy up to the age of nearly 7 - the dissenting Chapel of dr. Jennings and it was quite famous it was full and all kinds of interesting preachers came there including Isaac Watts John Newton was a little boy who was more educated at his mother's knee simply because John Newcombe senior captain John Newton was away on these very long sea voyages and so he was very much an absent father she had taught him to read and she was beginning to teach him Latin she taught him Bible stories Bible verses and the hymns of Isaac Watts which had just recently been published one of the first hymn writers his mother sadly died of consumption or tuberculosis as we know it just before Newton's seventh birthday he wasn't with her when she died because she actually was taken to the home of a distant relative who was in fact the mother of the girl he was one day to marry when John Newton got the news of his mother's death he was obviously very upset and he was more upset when his father came home and didn't seem to spend any time mourning his dead wife Captain John Newton married almost immediately just within weeks of coming home again and John really was a typical product of an unwanted stepson I suppose really he only had I think two years formal education that had a not very satisfactory boarding school at the age of eleven he was a sailor on one of his father ships and shortly afterwards when he when he was a teenager he was a sailor in his own rut no longer on his father ships but plowing the Mediterranean trade and the European trade but there was one extraordinary experience that John Newton had as about an 11 or 12 year old boy on this first voyage with his father which Michael was supernatural experience and it's the kind of dream which you know JRR tolkien might have scripted he was in just offshore from Venice and a figure appeared and gave him a ring and told him to look after it he was told that if he looked after this ring all would be well with his life but he must care for it that figure disappeared and another one came and mocked the value of that ring telling him that it was a waste of time and he need not bother about it at all and eventually inveigle the ring away from Newton so that Newton's threw it into the sea and at that moment in his dream he saw that the whole of Venice seemed to be engulfed in flames then the first person appeared in his dream came back to him and showed him the ring that he had rescued from the water and you can put out his hand it's it'll let me have that ring and the feather said no you cannot be trusted with it but at such a time as you need it it and all that it represents will be available for you he thought very little more of that dream until quite later in life when he came to realize that it was really a parable of his life he had received the gospel from his mother he had squandered that in later life because he became a licentiousness famous sailor as bad as the rest of worst and it was only later in life that God gave him back the treasure of the gospel he went on with his voyage inge and then came back from one of his voyages as a merchant sailor he decided he'd go down to the family in whose home his mother Elizabeth had died and the eldest daughter was called Mary she was 14 years old and the moment John set eyes on Mary he fell in his own words madly in love with her and I think initially the family had no idea that he was as lovestruck as he was but it was his love for her that really under God kept him during all the years that followed and he mooned around in a lovesick sort of way the town of Chatham near the Catholic family home and this mooning around got him into disaster Newton was press-ganged in Chatham and that word perhaps takes some explanation it was the law of the land that the Royal Navy could impress which meant compulsory recruit under pressure any able-bodied man and John Newton was grabbed and impressed into service as a seaman he now becomes a sailor on board a man of war HMS Harriet was a fourth way fourth rate man of war but it had 300 men on board because his father was a well-known merchant captain and because he himself was not exactly a landlubber he had good nautical experience he was immediately promoted to a midshipman which was the bottom rung of the officer class like he progressively threw off this Christian background his profanity was such they say in his language that even hardened sailors could keep their distance but he had been reading a book called the characteristics of men merit manners and so on by the third Earl of Shaftesbury now it was a book that led his mind well away from any faith in God and it helped him on his downhill spiral morally and philosophically because it now gave him the reasons why he was not a Christian morality was for John Newton to make up from now on and I think Newton found us sadly people today find that's a very convenient way of believing or not believing because you haven't got any sense of personal responsibility before God and certainly one tragic outcome he encountered a fellow sailor who'd also had a Christian background and really taught this fellow unbelief things got worse for him on the man-of-war at the very time when he thought they were going to get better he was put on shore as a young midshipman in charge of a party of sailors to bring in stores for the ship it was mainly fresh water that they required and he saw his opportunity of deserting his ship and walking to Plymouth to reach his father and he was captured by soldiers who were on the lookout for deserters he was put into Chains was brought back to the Harwich and he was publicly flogged 39 lashes across his bare back for deserting his ship now that was a very serious punishment for a very serious charge he could have actually been put to death and many died under the lash he lay on his bunk sore from the flogging furious with himself very angry with his captain he thought of suicide he thought of killing his captain and the ship sailed eventually the ship arrived at Madeira where by quite a remarkable occurrence he was able to be exchanged for some sailors on board a merchant ship back in the 18th century the Royal Navy could not only press-gang a young man it could exchange or swap young sailors for better sailors who they came across anywhere if provided there were subjects of the English crown but he had to go and serve on a merchant ship which was called the Pegasus and the Pegasus was what was sometimes called a guinea man which just meant a ship which went off to the coast of African Guinea to trade and eventually of course he decided to stay on the plantain islands and to try and make his fortune there he managed to get himself released from his duties as a merchant seaman and to start working as an apprentice to a white man who traded on the shores of Africa the white slave traders operated from the coast and it was the black Chiefs that brought people from the inland and sold them to the white slave traders on the coast but that wasn't working fast enough to and so fairly soon the white slave traders were moving inland to do their own dirty work for themselves so I think in these ways he thought he could make progress but when the man with whom he was working was away his wife who was quite high up in their tribal hierarchy and she took a great dislike to John Newton and she actually treated him as a white slave she put him in Chains she stabbed him she treated him he was kept out I was treated more like a dog than any kind of human being and sometimes he was so hungry at nights that he had to go and try and find some roots to eat which of course didn't do him much good and sometimes even some of the local slaves are brought in some of their own limited supplies out of compassion another slave trader who some reason took a liking to the strange young man who was being treated like a white slave this other slave trader bought his release from a mosque Lao John Newton then moved with his new boss who treated him much more as a partner to another part of the African coast and so he was in a much better position really and I think really he decided that he would simply stay in Africa and eventually he went down the coast to somewhere called Catan it was from there that a fellow trader I tried to signal passing vessels if you litter fond and the passing vessel saw the smoke rising then they take that as an invitation to come come in and trade and this fellow trader saw a vessel so he lit a fire and the timing was extraordinary now on that ship the Greyhound the captain had passed what he called the point of return in other words the ship had gone too far it meant tacking laborious Liebeck to get back to the point of tray and he was reluctant to do this but on a whim his own words on a whim he decided to do so his Newton's colleague went on board the ship to do trade and pick up items that they needed and almost the first question the ship's captain asked was do you happen to know of a man called Newton on the coast hereabouts apparently the ship's captain had met up with John Newton's father before he left England and John utens father had said if you ever find my son on the coast of Africa I want you to bring him back now this sounded like a sort of seafarers version of looking for a needle in a haystack it was most improbable that John Newton would ever be found by some passing ship the colleague of Newton said well as it happens I know exactly where the man you're looking for is Newton was reluctant to go on board he was now just about to make for the first time some money for himself he hadn't thought had made a penny so far and he thought he could make some money and there were only two things that enticed him back home one was the story that the ship's captain told him that he had information that Newton had inherited quite a small fortune and if he were to come back he could enjoy it which was a whole load of rubbish it was completely untrue but the other thing attracted him was the thought of Mary because on his own account not a day had gone by without him thinking of Mary so he took passage on the Greyhound and he upset the captain and by the same token pleased the crew by making up songs about the ship and the captain without actually mentioning the captain by and the captain was really fed up with him and wished he'd never taken him on board and yet he did come across in the course of the journey Thomas a Kempis imitation of Christ and at some point he started reading and he just started asking the question supposing all this is true well then came the the great storm and Newton was asleep but was caught up on deck and it obviously was a very big storm indeed now again as on so many other instances his life was quite extraordinary preserved because just as he was going up on deck I think the captain sent him back to get an eye for gain something like that and a fellow who was following him up on deck was immediately swept overboard as the ship broken and wallowing in the Atlantic struggled to keep itself afloat the whole crew including Newton thought that this must be the end and on one occasion Newton in his rather confident way said oh this would be a good thing to talk about over a jug when we get back home and one of the crew members said no it's too late now and that got Newton thinking and lashed to the tiller or the pumps because they had to take turns of both Newton began running over in his mind many of the verses of Scripture and doubtless some of the hymns of Isaac Watts that he had learned from his mother as a little boy he found himself condemned by the verses he knew and it was at that time that in his own words God reached down and plucked him out of the depths and he put a very wavering faith in God acknowledging that his life had been a complete mess and he had ruined all that God had given him and spoiled the treasure that his mother had taught him and he made a commitment of faith and at some point he said to the captain something like if the law doesn't have mercy on us were all lost and I think the captain noticed that because to hear this particular profane infidel talking about the Lord was was quite a surprise but eventually they Skepta float and they went into a lot Swilly on the west coast of ireland on the first things he went did was to go to church and to pray and give thanks for the fact that he had been saved as a result of his prayer and so this was the change of direction from John Newton's dissolute a steaming life to a Christian life the journey wasn't instant but in that storm Newton did cry out to God and clearly God met with him he had a long way to go so he was very vulnerable as a new Christian and of course it's it is a big lesson for Christians all ages that all of us need to disciple and to be discipled and that wasn't happened for I think about six years so he hadn't really got any framework to his faith so he goes back to Mary and Chatham in Kent but still there's she gives him a little hope but no certainty and he's got no money at all because he got nothing for his time ins in Africa he walked from Chatham in Kent the 250 miles to Liverpool he calls it his long lonely walk because that's where he would be able to pick up another ship this is a slave ship he's first mate and it was on this ship that he in his own words back slid as bad as before he would allow the life on board ship and the in the evenings to drag him down and it really was a bad journey for him but he was determined to go on with Christ although the life on board a slave ship was probably the worst of all the merchant ships and and only the the roughen really ever ended up on board ship anyway because after Brownlow he took three journeys as a slave ship captain so he was actually in charge of the ship and the the the gathering of the slaves on what was known as the triangular trade out from England with items for barter to the west coast of Africa picking up slaves taking them from there either to the West Indies or to North America and then picking up cotton rum brandy things that the home market wanted and then coming back across the Atlantic that was the three legs of the triangular trade in the 1750s where Newton was a slave ship captain the general view of England including Christian England was that the slave trade was a respectable economic form of activity and that sounds extraordinary but it is historically true seventeen 50s and 60s almost nobody not even the Quakers at that stage had really got to grips with the issue of slavery it wasn't until you get right up into the 1770s 80's and 90's that the groundswell of recognition of what is happening and part of the reason for this is you have to realize that people in the home market England would be receiving all this cotton and brandy and sugar but had no idea really how it came there wasn't the media nobody was going out there taking films of slaves and the way they were treated and the cruelty and bestiality of it all and so people didn't know as they began to know so they stared and I think it speaks to Christians today to ask what blind spots have we got or where do we start wrongly accommodating to what society regards as inevitable even right in between his voyages he would visit Mary Mary was he married Mary in 1750 and she was quite frail in health and often had to stay with her parents and then of course eventually he met this very significant figure in his life captain Alexander Clooney who was captain of a vessel but not on a slaver and they met at some kids and they recognized one another as Christians and Clooney was a member of an independent congregation and Clooney really instructed Newton in the basics of the faith and that he was secure in Christ and that he was united to Christ and the implications of that in terms of a godly life and relying on Christ's presence by the Holy Spirit and and I think Newton uses a phrase like he taught with the security of the covenant of grace something like that and of course they remained firm friends and that was a key turning point for Newton but apart from that he didn't have any regular teaching he couldn't have he wasn't under any regular teaching however he was reading and he was studying you have to remember that as a ship's captain he was teaching himself Hebrew and Greek but he could eventually correspond with Dutch theologians in Latin he could read his New Testament in Greek perfectly well and he could read his Old Testament in Hebrew in his own words tolerably well which was not bad for a man whose only education was two years of inferior schooling in a pretty poor School in Essex you know looking at it for the perspective of the 21st century you would still have to say that he was trading in slaves all the light of Christ had not dawned in him but at the time what disturbed Newton and even when he writes his authentic narrative he says I I was increasingly perturbed by a course of life that was involved with shackles and chains and leg irons and he said I felt more like a jailer and a turnkey and he didn't like what he was doing his conscience was stirring the owner of his ships mr. Manistee was actually in the process of building him a brand new ship to send him out again on a fourth voyage when he suddenly took a seizure we simply can't tell because metaphor details are so scant what it was but it was some sort of mini stroke or seizure that suddenly rendered him unconscious and that was gave John Newton a great fright and also gave the owner of the ship a great fright because we couldn't have a captain who was liable to suddenly collapse through a seizure so by mutual agreement John Newton's career as a Seafarer and slave ship captain was terminated he managed to get appointed to a job which was called surveyor of the tides in Liverpool and this was effectively what we would call a chief customs officer his job was he had a boat with a half-dozen horsemen and every incoming ship to the docks at Liverpool he was to be rowed out and searched them for contraband his experience meant he had a pretty good idea where things would be hidden on any ship but this gave him a great amount of time to sit in his little Hut as he was given with a fire and a lamp and study and read and that's where he continued to do a lot of his studying and reading and actually where he first began to prepare his first sermons also while he was in in Liverpool he invited George Whitefield the great evangelist to come and preach in the city and clear the two men hit it off and he was enormous the impress because Whitfield was the most outstanding preacher of the 18th century and I think particularly repulsive his own experience and his awareness of the hand of God and the grace of God in his own life Newton found himself drawn to Whitfield's theology which was robustly evangelistic but also believed that God is sovereign and that we depend entirely on His grace in salvation in Christ so Whitfield became very much a dominant influence in his life and obviously Newton began to think whether he might be called come to some full-time ministry himself and he did preachers first sermon in these years in the Presbyterian Church in Leeds his first sermon was the absolute disaster during the afternoon when he was having tea with his hosts they said would you like to go and prepare for the evening no no he was perfectly confident he'd done all this preparation thank you and he got into the pulpit and he began and within minutes he'd covered his material and all anything else fled out of his mind and he came down from the pulpit in great sense of shame and he says that for some time afterwards he believed that everybody in the town was talking about him that was his entry into preaching as Newton started thinking more towards being a pastor teacher in the Church of God I think initially he thought that he would be serving outside the Church of England because he had many contacts and friends who were serving in other denominations this was important actually a long term because it meant that he respected wherever someone was called to serve and he had friends and contacts in all denominations and so he started pushing the doors but the doors didn't open because although you would have thought that Newton with his gifts would be and his spiritual experience would be just a wonderful gift for church in the ministry because he was tainted with Methodism which many churchy leaders in the church England thought was simply fanaticism he found that the door was closed but he pressed on and he he wrote out his thoughts about the call to ministry in this personal way that a since all recently been printed as ministry on my mind and after John Newton had had these several rejections he was heard preaching a sermon by the Earl of Dartmouth you should be ordained he said to John Newton John Newton said I've been trying to get ordained but the Church of England kept turning me down the Earl of Dartmouth then had a quiet word with the Bishop of Lincoln who was a bishop who would refused four-day John Newton changed his mind and said he would ordain him and so he was ordained and he became Puritan charge at a little village in Buckinghamshire called only Mary moved up with him of course that they're now in the vicarage number of things to be said about him there he was a very warm and loving pastor which is it's particularly interesting when you consider that this man had been used to hanging an unruly crew he brought with him that gift of verse which he had so badly used when he was at sea making godless and rivaled songs about the captain which entertained the crew but now he began to turn this into first for his people as he walked down the streets of army he he listened to the women at their at their lace bobbins and in order to keep them in time with their their work they would have little ditties that they would chant and he thought well they can learn these so if I can teach them hymns they can remember the theology that I'm trying to teach them so he would sometimes spend two or three days in his week not just preparing the sermon but preparing the song that was going to go with the sermon and then he would teach it to them before after the sermon and that would really punch home the points that he had made he filled the church packed it out by his good preaching and teaching and is actually to the stage on how John Newton built congregation built a church is a model of how to do it even in the 21st century he started a Sunday school long before Robert regs started to Sunday school in the West Country Newton gathered his little crew as he called them together and they used to meet and he would teach them and kids from the Baptist's were coming as well in fact that caused a bit of a problem because he devised the idea of giving little prizes for children who could remember verses and new answers to questions and unfortunately the Baptist kids were running off with all the prizes and that caused a bit of tension because they knew their Bible so well and that he says he had to sit them down and give them a little talk on how to get on well together he was informal so that instead of going around in clerical dress of the period he would wear his old I think he wore his old naval captain's coat obviously believing he shouldn't throw something away while there was still somewhere in it so he was easy and approachable Newton was encouraged to write up as we would say today his testimony and so he produced what's called the authentic narrative it's been republished under different names and it's been republished many times after the publication of an authentic narrative people came from all over to see this man with such an extraordinary story to tell even an admiral came to see this man who was once beaten at the grating for deserting his ship his Majesty's ship people would you know take a coach for 50 miles 100 miles come in here John Newcombe preach or ride great distances and there were two people in this category who became very famous very influential one was the aunt of William Wilberforce William Wilberforce was at that stage a schoolboy that this art brought William Wilberforce as a schoolboy to hear John Newton preach and they stayed in the vicarage hospitable way over those times so that was to be a most influential and important encounter and secondly there was someone else called Cooper spelt coppa William Cooper was a national poet brilliant poet a very sad character who suffered from very deep depression and for eighteen months he lived with John and Mary and almost every day William Cooper would be running up the stairs into John's study and troubling the pastor when he was busy with his work but William Cooper was brilliant at verse of course and together they wrote a number of hymns there were some remarkable hymns written by these two and their collection of hymns was published later and it's called the only hymns it was sort of special hymn book of its age and hymn singing was comparatively new because certainly until then mostly in the Church of England they just sang psalms so this was quite a new development Cooper wrote some great hymns as one called God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform but Newton was probably the greater him right of the two and perhaps his greatest him theologically literary greatest it was glorious things of their spoken policy one of his hymns glorious things at leas spoken Zion city of my God is a hymn based on the church and on again his own experience solid joys and lasting treasure none but Zions children know again he's giving his own testimony in song and that beautiful hymn how sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believers ear he's known for many of these lovely hymns but his most famous hymn was amazing grace and that was him which is will always be associated with John Newton's name he wrote Amazing Grace as a new year here he based it on a passage in chronicles where the king is reviewing God's goodness to him and that's what Newton wanted to do in Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me and he continually comes back to the word grace which for John Newton of course meant God's undeserved mercy in forgiving him through the merits of Jesus Christ and because of nothing he himself had done and then he rounds it off in what is his final verse the earth will soon dissolve like snow the Sun will cease to shine but God who loved me here below will be forever mine unfortunately that verse somehow in the 19th century got lost and the new verse that everybody knows when we've been there ten thousand years got put in but that has nothing to do with John yet wrote the hymn as far as we know rather quickly in an afternoon he didn't write the tune the famous Amazing Grace music came much later and separately and Amazing Grace it never really took off in England you know if people said what are popular hymns what are great hymns which hymns were reprinted Amazing Grace was never one of them in England what changed the game for Amazing Grace was the United States that Newton's hymn was reprinted in America took off in the south of America and that's where the tune comes from it's an old plantation tune so the music and the words of Amazing Grace were married together but then he became gradually a kind of America's spiritual national anthem it was then sung by all sorts of recording artists and by the sort of 1960s this had become the most performed and most recorded song that learned him in the history of music and it's extraordinary the way it's Grip people it seems that a lot of people sing it without actually realizing what they're singing so it's a kind of ecclesiastical version of Rule Britannia really a Christian version of you sing it because it's good to sing even though you don't necessarily understand or perhaps agree with the words Newton in the 18th century perhaps more famously known equally to his hymns as a letter writer now in the 18th century everybody was keeping a diary and writing letters and everybody wanted to read the Diaries and letters of everybody else and he wrote to people who had written in normally people who had written asking questions and all kinds of people did he was encouraged to publish them and the first were published under the title of a micron a title that Cooper made up for him and the second eventually were published when he came to London under the title of Cardiff onea utterances of the heart he was a very practical man visiting his people writing hymns caring for his people seeing the church grow beginning early morning prayer meetings and he saw a lot of real spiritual blessing and valuable he was a darling obviously his his influence was spreading quite widely and he was invited to consider the pulpit at San Mary Woronov in London which was in the City of London right in the banking quarter and he filled the church very quickly just as he had filmed only parish church and again it was so crowded that some of the regulars started to complain their pews were being occupied by all these newcomers and then there was had there to build a gallery again in Samaria Wilmeth and of course it was a very much more influential kind of congregation people from the city and from politics they packed into this church because of Newton's remarkable preaching which was known in his day as gospel preaching it was really evangelical preaching as we would call it very much based on the world very faithful to Scripture and he was very good brilliant at expounding the gospel many of his congregation would be bankers how were they earning their living many of them through the revenue of the slave trade so it is to his credit by the 1780s and 90s he is preaching against the slave trade calling it blood money and telling his congregation that they can have nothing to do with it in 1788 he wrote his famous document thoughts on the African slave trade very very important document because he gave his reasons why the slave trade was so iniquitous in every way very carefully very wisely very prudently written document and this was distributed widely printed widely and distributed and had a great influence he was hugely influential politically particularly because he was William Wilberforce his mentor and William Wilberforce came to see him for one evening under conditions of strict secrecy it was considered unfashionable if not risky and wrong for an important young member of parliament to be seen consorting with a gospel preacher they were sort of gospel preachers was sort of thought to be a bit dangerous a bit wild and you know the upper classes looked down on them but will the force as a boy had met Newton heard him preach and so when Wilberforce was having a spiritual encounter with God he wanted to try to contact Newton so he sent round and no Praetorians a bit as a sort of James Bond sending a letter to em and saying we must keep this quiet we'll just meet completely privately let's keep it confidential and Wilberforce came to Newton's house and well before somebody wolf twice around the square to make sure the coast was clear and nobody was watching so nervous was he when he came in to see Newton he told Newton about his Christian conversion is zeal and Wilberforce had it in mind to become a clergyman to join the church neuf engage Wilberforce very very wise advice he said in effect don't join the church stay where you are and serve God through Parliament now after that first meeting two years later William Wilberforce wrote in his diary a very famous expression it was on a Sunday in 18 1787 and he wrote God Almighty has laid before me too great objects the abolition of the slave trade and the Reformation of manners manners men Mara morals morality the Reformation of morality and that Wilberforce gave his life to those two great causes and Newton supported him all the way through and as a result of that he was asked to give evidence to the Privy Council he was in fact the only slow ship captain who ever gave evidence to the Privy Council he also spoke to a parliamentary committee they became quite a Lobby in England men driven very largely by a lot of the women who would not allow their families to eat sugar because it came from the spoils of the slave trade the slave trade was abolished because of a number of factors there were things like the revolt revolt in some Dominica we commemorate on the 23rd of August this revolt and that had an impact that was in the set in the 17 late 1700s and so a lot of the Africans themselves were instrumental and their cause was taken up by people like William Wilberforce like people like Newton and so it gradually grew and in Liverpool the leading figure was William Roscoe he and others started the Athenaeum Club in 1797 which still exists with that purpose of turning round opinion in little four against the slave trade so that over those decades that last twenty years and it took a long time very slow until 1807 it was finally abolished Newton finally died in the year when the slave trade was abolished as Wilberforce himself finally died in the that slavery in British territories was abolished john Yocum preached his last sermon in the pulpit of samaria warned us in 1806 a year before his own death everything came full circle because he'd come to a stop in his very first sermon in the Presbyterian Church and needs so he really getting very forgetful of surroundings and happenings he really ground to a halt in the prophetess at very worn off John Newton was consistent both in and out of the pulpit in his relationship to his wife in his relationship to his friends in his relationship to his parishioners he is for me an example of an all-round ministry as someone who lived what he preached and preached as he lived and I think that is a very significant thing Newton again teaches me never to give up on anyone because he really was hardened against God he really was violently a viciously opposed to God finally before his conversion and to all things Christian and we might think oh that man's beyond reach of some particular individual but Newton teaches us otherwise and Newton's last words are perhaps the greatest testimony to the testimony because when Newton was dying and visitor came to see him and asked how he was and if he remembered this that in the other and Newton who was very old blind knew he was near death said in a faltering voice sir I remember only two things that I am a great sinner that Christ is a great Savior [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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