Newton's Grace: The True Story of Amazing Grace | Full Movie | Landon Wall | Jim McKeny

[Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there you are your little blind [Music] what is going on here much of large pastor Newton if you just hold him I'll give him the kind he deserve as a point of personal privilege sir no one shall be whipped in my presence did you deal with him what has he done wrong sir fightin with the other boys disobedience swearing they tipped over me stall he's a bad seed I'm serious sir please stand back and let me give him Dakine and he deserves not in my presence mr. Chapman fine he's your problem you deal with him thank you sir fighting a swearing these are serious charges no mrs. Watson's oldest aren't you well I was about to go inside for a spot of tea would you like to join me well there might be let's go see [Music] so fighting and swearing what Monstar no how could you you you're the Polson and all I think I might understand much better than you think I was once a little boy myself and I think by the time I was your age I had been expelled from two different schools for fighting and swearing you yes I wasn't always a church parson you know in fact I've been a great many different things in life and I've probably done things far worse than fighting it's very [Music] I was a cabin boy on a ship I was a ship's captain later on I was even a slave for a while would you like to hear a little of my story more biscuits hey there might be yes and more tea as well because it was all a very long time ago we understand but I don't think that little boys had really changed that much to you I remember my dear mother as if it were only a few weeks ago she taught me to pray she taught me to read by reading the descriptions she died when I was only six my father was a merchant seaman the captain while I'm sure that he loved me in his own way I don't recall ever feeling loved by him he soon remarried a beautiful young woman wore him other children she wasn't terribly interested in me and so he was away at sea and I ended up in boarding school it wasn't long before I was expelled from that school for the same sort of trouble you've been in give me fine I am general disobedience now I was young I had this hot core of anger inside of me that burned all the time and it was out of control I couldn't control my actions I you do understand don't you it wasn't long before I was expelled from the next school for the same thing and my father decided that the only thing to be done was to take me to see and so I went on a ship with him when I was 11 [Music] we served as cabin boys carrying and cleaning and doing whatever any grown-up sailor wanted done but that burning core of anger still inside me and what it would burn I would always end up in trouble dark suck on that young master he'll maybe you'll think twice about slinging blasphemies around in me Callie I took my anger out on the other boys the ones who were smaller than I [Music] but in spite of the trouble I got into I grew into a man aboard merchant ships and I became an able-bodied seaman ship leaves next Wednesday for Jamaica we can use you if you'll sign on I I will I'll be visiting in Kent for a few days but I can be back for Wednesday little did I know how those few days in Kent would affect the rest of my life but it was they're staying with friends of my mother that I met the love of my life my Polly her name was Mary Mary Catlett and almost from the first time I saw her my heart was a captive my secret nickname for her was Polly my dear Polly my beloved she was a little younger than I and her beautiful smile melted my heart and made a permanent mark upon my soul mr. Newton I shall speak plainly we love George your mother and held in the highest regard Mary is too young yet for any decision but her father and I do not object to an understanding provided provided that when you return from your voyages we will see some signs of stability and a prospect prospect prospects for living mr. Newton is of great importance yes you shall keep that in mind mrs. caddel it and I shall return now I went back to sea with a goal in mind to make my way to find advancement to make my fortune so that I could return and marry My dear Polly [Music] the beautiful memory of her smile with a sweet face got me through many long watches and lonely nights at sea but even the memory of her smile could not keep me from trouble that hot anger burned inside me still and would boil over you're on report reduce rations for a week and of course I was a seaman at sea no different from any other when at Port I joined heartily in the sins that waited any sailor but not all temptations were in port oh you're a fool if you believe all that blather all this can be explained by reason and science there's no God up there reach philosophers lots of hours at sea done lots of time to think Hobbes Voltaire they make more sense than a pack of priests mumble in Latin nothing but superstition to control the rest of us you should read off solo Nia's book Leviathan and so I too became a sailor philosopher of sorts Spinoza and Hobbes often made quite a deal of sense and just as often made me doubt the simple faith of my childhood one night at sea I fell asleep over a book and I had the strangest dream one that would come back to me again and again throughout my life [Music] as long as you preserve this ring you will be successful should you lose it or part he was only expect sorrow and distress [Music] [Music] you believe that Vegas magic [Music] what simpleton you believe anything you're told Anya seemed right what's right about it some stranger ends your reign house it's magic it's a talisman and you believe him what rune seriously John how can you buy such claptrap suscribe magical powers to a wee piece of metal shaped in a circle why be ashamed to admit such superstitions to another man dony understand that by subscribing to such superstitions it saps your own human powers of reason go on throw it away create your own fate take control of your own destiny go on throw it away go on go on show you're a man [Music] [Music] oh you are a fool what I'd under well believe anything you're told and now you're lost for that break contained in it after all domestic out of the surf [Music] you [Music] [Music] what did you do with it yeah I blow - what hey where did you throw it [Music] [Music] I brought it back for you know if you were to be entrusted with this ring again you would soon bring yourself to the same distress you're not able to keep it but I will preserve it for you and whenever it is needful I will produce it on your behalf [Music] it wasn't long before that voyage was nearing its end and I would be able to return to Kent to visit my Polly as the ship turned home all my thoughts had turned to her in the prospect of again seeing her sweet face but it was not to be less than five miles from her house I encountered a press gang these were the days of an impending war with France and the Navy needed freshmen all the time press gangs roamed the country authorized to virtually kidnap a lightly young lead and press him into the service of His Majesty's Navy it's a press gang [Music] oh he's awake welcome to His Majesty's Navy what's your name son today out of Liverpool he was the last conscript brought on board yeah hms orange newly commissioned man award under the command of captain Carteret we're on our way to France to defend king and country we're always fighting the French of Spain ever since he bit down apple usually I expect for years [Music] [Music] [Music] captured carried away from my love against my will imprisoned at sea [Music] each day on the ocean took me further from pali and increased my resentment honey sorry you've got to get along look the other sailors we've all got our crosses to bear leave me alone a smoldering anger that had always burned in me was now a fire of resentment I obeyed orders I did my job I did so with a sullen attitude in my mind God himself had cheated me why did you do this me it might such a sitter that you just singled me out for special punishment [Music] love nothing to do with you [Music] but I was no fool I soon perceived that I have a greater chance of Liberty if I was promoted and so I began to focus all my rage into hard work and efforts to please the officers not because I had any true respect for them but because I saw it as my opportunity for a change so I started to work hard I showed officers great respect [Music] with dogs in Pisa at least to their faces you wish to see me sir hi mr. Newton your father is a merchant captain aye sir I have heard good things of him he's written he asking that I consider you for advancement I've spoken to matin he says that you have been an exemplary seaman I try my best sir that's the attitude what would you say to being promoted to midshipman i sir I would like that very much didn't think you'd refuse so be it you are promoted to midshipman [Music] being a midshipman meant that I was a sort of apprentice officer and I was set over my former mates set the Topsail lay the shrouds [Music] well I behaved with perfect form to my superiors the rage inside me often was taken out on the sailors who were now under me much as I had once bullying smaller junior not seaman Bobby mess take it apart and start again after some months at sea patrolling the channel and even fighting skirmishes with French ships we had to put back into Plymouth's for repairs and then it was that I had my chance mr. Newton while we have repairs I'm going to permit a rotation of shore leave for the seamen and assigning you to go ashore with them and supervise to make sure none of them desert aye sir It was as if the master had left the cap to God the cream I'll be back at sunset and he were not here and ready to return to the ship should be counted as deserting and shall feel the lash it's not alright off with you here at last was my chance to go see my Pali I wasn't much on thinking things through in those days and it didn't really occur to me that desertion would catch up [Music] [Music] [Music] I have a warrant for your arrest for desertion from His Majesty's Navy mr. John Newton the charge punishable by death when found guilty by court-martial or lesser punishment by a ship's captain as defined by article 16 of the Articles of War shall be tied to the must 12 lashes [Music] [Music] [Music] no one shall speak a word to mr. Newton for seven days no one shall show him favor no one shall share in erection with him other than the bread and water assigned by the galley master are these instructions clear it's healing up you can sleep in a hammock from now on [Music] mr. Jensen that's the world to mr. Jensen mr. Smythe that's the way to live his life mr. Newton I said mr. Newton sir that's the word mr. Newton the captain had conscripted two Gunners from a passing ship maritime law required that he replaced them with able-bodied seamen so that the civilian ship would not be short-handed this gave captain Carter end the perfect opportunity to get rid of some troublemakers able-bodied seamen by us - you were scared one barely recovered from the scourge well I can tell you you'll feel the cat again your disobey on the ship I said this is a slave ship well the 18 months on the triangle served well and you'll be rewarded serf poorly and you'll be punished understood dismissed [Music] [Music] I came to like many of the sailors on the levant the old rage still burned inside me now misdirected all at the captain that's a sloppy bitter work there mr. Newton that's the way you worked on the orange no wonder you were flogged now listen up mates a song about old mr. Phelps up here did you ever see the likes since you've been to see let the good [ __ ] rock a bandy-legged captain with the bent back knee wobbling down the dock [Music] [Music] will anchor it the banana islands in Sierra Leone tomorrow I'll need a crew of three to roll me in to meet with the trader harness Smyth and and Newton the following day will sail to Coral Bay where we'll load the cargo you see them Betty on traitor their lives like a king what's not to like what do you think you didn't well you both have Daft might be nice for a while I want to get back to England I want to see my Polly smart hardness make ready the vote Newton you stay here with me mr. Campbell this is mr. Newton the young man I was telling you about it's a pleasure to meet you mr. Schue I'll be so pleased once you understand the deal I've traded you mr. Newton you stay here as a servant mr. funny man so you've met a lot you'll meet again soon enough if you don't serve well my property now Newton and there's no way off this island without me knowledge on me permission so don't you go be getting any bright ideas you have to be a servant for me wife sofa well do what you're told your life will be much easier but you buck against and you'll find out just how hard our life can be you've got take him to pay I she's always want to have a white man as a slave no she's got one [Music] he is not much to look at is he give him a match and chain him behind the house first we must break him my defiance my sins had all caught up with me I was a slave they gave me only a little to eat for days just enough to drink to keep me alive [Music] we take the change of today you appear sleep do you understand you must do exactly as she bills if you try to run away we will hurt you and chain you if you diss obey you will be whipped if you try to run away twice we will kill you throughly in a way that will make you wish for death to come do you understand now go and serve your mistress ah my little white man oh you must be so terribly hungry how could you have cheated my little white man so badly here let me give you some food you would like something to eat wouldn't you I'm sure you would I'm sure you're starving she worked me like a mule she seemed to take particular delight in watching me suffer often making me do chores that were simply pointless put them back and place them exactly where you found them [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] don't bring me song [Music] you are useless even as a slave for the one time I felt nothing but and despair I could never forget that I was the lowest form of life on the island even the native slaves had thatched huts to live in well I had to sleep on the ground under the stars on the other hand Campbell and P I lived in a great brick house at the center of the island I was seldom allowed in the big house and then only to do menial labor but as long as I obeyed P eyes abusive commands they fed me a little and I regained some strength in mind as well as body one night I lay looking at the expanse of the heavens I began to try and see how many constellations I could identify many stars I could name this became a Knightly game that became a private area of freedom for me and I began to dream again of my dear Polly my beautiful Polly I wonder if I will ever see you again then one night it seemed to me that a group of stars formed a circle a ring a constellation I had never seen before and never since it may have been my eyes playing a trick or perhaps a planet had wandered into an unusual position visible from this latitude but that night I could indeed see ring ring like the one in my dream you're not able to keep but I will preserve it for you and whenever it is needful I will produce it on your behalf [Music] during the days when P I was in a mood I would work very hard but then there would be hours of boredom when there was nothing to do one day I found a small lime tree growing the other village it seemed it much like me beaten and starving the sparing of life I adopted that little tree as my own and began to take care of it to water and to fertilize it I found other seedlings and planted them in what became my own little garden [Music] one day Campbell had me move heavy crates into the big house I was alone for a few moments and there I came upon a dusty old geometry book I took it and hid it under my mat I began in my spare time to work geometry problems scratching diagrams in the sand using the Sun in the shadow of my little lime tree I calculated the latitude and longitude of the islands we were on which were commonly called the banana just like the stars like the little lime tree it gave me something to focus on a space that was mine and mine alone there was little I could do with the knowledge but the exercise did much to keep my mind occupied and shot one day when I was tending to my little garden and passing the time with equations written in the sand mr. Campbell and P I walked down the path and caught sight of what I was doing Newton what are you doing mine are you growing your own limes I was terrified the pie as cruel as she was would make me destroy my little place of sanity who knows maybe one day before those treats are full-grown you can sail back to England and you can meet the captain of your own boat then you can come back here and enjoy the fruits of your labors then again perhaps you will become the king of Poland [Laughter] what is this do you understand the mathematics yes might not be a complete waste after all [Music] hitter a set of equations and like forget to solve them what is it test if you will I want to see just how good you are with these mathematics sit down sit down [Music] I'm in need of a Clark to manage me 5-3 and kid him they're not very many people in Sierra Leone who understanding numbers Factory hey it's me slave trading post its where the bomb bowl bringing slaves from the interior and make them ready for transport to the West Indies my brother runs the factory but he's in need of someone who can keep the accounts you will go there you will serve him now the guard will take you [Music] [Music] at kitten my life changed dramatically I had new clean clothes to wear Angus Campbell treated me well almost as an equal [Music] [Music] the Bombo treated me with respect inviting me to their feasts I thought of Pali often before long I had given up any hope of ever returning to England my circumstance had changed from one of daily despair to one of comfort I had all I needed food shelter clothing respect and even women thoughts of England feed and my life in kitten began to envelop every part of my being the other settlers even had an expression for it they called it going native [Music] what are they saying it means freedom [Music] but then came the day when my entire world would suddenly change again as if a lightning bolt had struck mr. John you yes I'm Archibald gopher captain the HMS grand welcome captain gopher you go to pick up a shipment no exactly you see I'm here to take you home me what are you talking about your father commissioned me to find you and bring you back to England whatever the cost I've been stopping at every trading posts out for the Canaries searching for you and finally here you are [Music] [Music] there she is a greyhound after this we've got two more ports of call to pick up ivory and beeswax and then we should set sail for Liverpool and for you Oh captain go with her a month ago I would have told you I had no hope or even dream of seeing England again I was prepared to live out my days here perhaps marry native even on my grave right here in West Africa if I believed in God I wouldn't say his hand and brought you here believe it where else can it be [Music] and so I began my journey home not as a crewman but as a passenger on the Greyhound freed of the duties I was used to I had many hours at sea to think to think about my life to think about life itself [Music] it was during these long hours of leisure that I discovered a book the imitation of Christ by Thomas and Kempis I began reading it not as a meditational work but as a work of fiction an entertainment to pass the time but as I read the involuntary suggestion came to me what if these words were true what is the faith of this long dead writer was in fact a reality that I simply did not understand I could not bear the inference as it related to myself dimly remembered scripture verses came unbidden to my mind especially fearful passages that speak of the judgment of those who know the way of truth but then depart from it what if I were one of them what if the faith I had abandoned was in fact the driving reality of the universe what if God's hand had in fact mean the moving force that brought me to this point brought Gosa to Sierra Leone to rescue me what if I had turned my back on the very God who sought to save me I was so caught up in my own thoughts and meditation that I had not even been aware of the storm Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I thought back then on that powerful recurring dream that had haunted my life I will preserve it for you and whenever it is needful I will produce it on your behalf we had survived the most terrifying storm of my life at sea but more than that I had a glimmer of new hope a spark of faith in my heart in my darkest moment I discovered a chance of reconciliation with a God that I had long dismissed as mere fiction that was March 10th 17:48 a day that I would mark for the rest of my life as the day of my conversion [Music] there is little doubt that our very cargo had saved us the beeswax and the dyers wood we carry being both lighter than water the Greyhound was so swamped with water that we surely would have sunk if it were not for the flotation of the cargo itself but was God's hand not present even in this detail as we limped back toward England crippled with only a few sails I spent most of my time reading the Scriptures meditating and praying to the Lord from the sea and instruction you I began to see my life in a different perspective the burning anger that had driven me as a younger man was now faded I began to see that my entire life was that as the parable of the prodigal son not in a figurative way as most people understand it but in the most literal reality we sighted land on April 7th the Irish island of Tory the next day who landed it's Willie finally I was safely after misadventures that seemed like a storybook so did you see your father no see God's ways are very strange they see the day I arrived in Liverpool I discovered that my father had shipped out only the day before for Canada he'd been appointed governor of York's fort in Hudson Bay Colony I never saw him again [Music] oh yes we were able to write one another so he knew the whole story but he died there in Canada and was buried there and I never saw him again however God gave me a new father as it were Joseph manistee who owned the ship that I had returned on took me under his wing and treated me as if I were his own son he got me a commission as first mate on a trade ship and I did very well much of the rebellion and my spirit to the burning anger had been washed away in Africa and I no longer found myself always attracted to trouble my new station and life secure I could at long last go back to Kent into my Polly my beloved Polly after years of remembering her face as in a dream I was finally able to marry my dear Polly love of my life [Music] according to God's holy ordinance and thereto I give thee my troth this ring [Music] [Music] before long my benefactor Joseph Manistee promoted me to captain captain of my own ship the Duke of an archive [Music] Duke of Argyll was a sleeping ship so my job as captain was to take the ship to the west coast of Africa very close to where I had been held captive myself pick up slaves there transport them to the West Indies there to exchange them for molasses and rum and return those to England that's why we called it the triangular trade a slave ship after you US life yourself how could you do that you're a very astute young man no I was an infant in the faith and I really did not see the evils of the slave trade at the time none of us did it was considered an honorable way to make living but you were held captive how could you do that to someone else it was all too easy you see attitudes are starting to change now but 20 years ago no one questioned the slave trade well save the Quakers and humour avian missionaries in st. Thomas everyone in England that had any money at all had it invested in the slave trade it was very profitable and where profit is concerned we turn a blind eye don't we all I could see at the time was that as a Christian ship captain my job was to safely transport the slaves from one port to the other and treat them as well as possible the same as I might do with a load of cattle it wasn't uncommon on slave ships for almost a third of them to die on that Middle Passage they were kept chained below decks fed little food I prided myself on the fact that only a few had ever died on my ships I devised a routine of regular exercise for the slaves so that each day they would see the sunlight and keep themselves as fit and healthy as possible I insisted with mr. Manistee that we have sufficient provisions so that the slaves could maintain proper nourishment and not arrive starved I did the same with the crew I was proud that my ship had one of the best records for delivering slaves in good health we only had a few deaths at sea I felt each one personally and worked harder on each voyage to make sure that both crew and cargo stayed healthy and fit he may not seem like much but it was far more than most captain's did in those days I engaged the crew in regular times of worship [Music] to the Mighty One of Israel let's pray [Music] it was on this journey that I had the chance to return to the banana islands to my own place of enslavement I was even able to find one of the lime trees that I had planted with my own hands so many years before [Music] then came my third voyage in 1753 as captain of the african we landed in ghana to pick up a load of 600 slaves for transport to Jamaica [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it was on that voyage that I began to first wonder about the slave trade [Music] [Music] [Music] that would be my last voyage whether looks good sale the day after tomorrow I shall miss you terribly so what she did not have to be gone so long but it is the nature of the trade [Applause] I'm afraid he's suffered a stroke [Music] I could no longer commandership it seemed very hard at the time but we were later to understand that it was a blessing from God yes a blessing you see when God closes one way it is often for a reason that we do not know or understand captain Potter the man who took over the ship for me and his entire crew were killed on that voyage god preserve us yes he did preserve us and it was a deep lesson because what we thought was a curse at the time actually was filled with much grace we moved back to Polly's family home in Kent for my recuperation during this time living in Kent I had many hours of leisure which I often spent outdoors I had hours and hours for Bible study and for meditation I spent many hours discovering the layers of grace present in our Lord's redeeming work [Music] slowly I regained some of my strength but I knew I would never again captain a ship however my knowledge of the business enabled me to obtain a position as tide surveyor of Liverpool a position of great responsibility boy idol severe state your cargo I worked for the customs office it was responsible to inspect incoming ships to make sure that proper import customs were paid to the government even with the remaining weakness for my stroke I could still discharge the work with responsibility and yet have the free time to study the Scriptures as I desire now that we were settled in a house in Liverpool I made the most of my free time I determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified as Paul wrote in first Corinthians and I resolved to do nothing that would not serve that main purpose I began to learn Greek enough to allow me to understand the New Testament and the Septuagint and then I began studying Hebrew the following year I never attained a critical skill in any of these languages but I had no goal but to truly and faithfully understand the scriptural words and phrases so that I could judge for myself the meaning of any particular passage together with this I kept up a course of reading the best writers of Christian theology I could find out of this gradually arose a new desire my mother's hope when I was a child was that I should enter the ministry now for the first time I began to feel a strong calling in that direction myself it was not a calling of which I felt worthy but I felt in some ways I was the perfect person to proclaim the faithful saying from first Timothy that Jesus Christ came into the world to save the chief of sinners my life had been full of such remarkable terms I seemed selected to show what the Lord could do my initial enthusiasm was damped by a refusal after refusal to consider me for ordination I did not give up easily but in rapid order I was turned down by the established church right in the centres by the Methodists and by the Presbyterians though not yet ordained I began to preach at churches around Liverpool and to be well received the Lord bestows many blessings upon his people but unless he likewise gives him a thankful heart they lose much of the comfort they might have in them and this is not only blessing in itself but an earnest of more King David when he was peacefully settled in his kingdom purposed to express his gratitude by building a place for the ark I began to receive more and more invitations to preach or to speak about my life experiences Polly Polly read this you're to be the pastor of the parish church Oh st. Peter and st. Paul and only Oh John it is an answer to our prayers I had to wait over seven long years but finally my dream to serve as a parish pastor would become true and that Samuel is how I came to be the pastor of this parish was that was number of years ago before you were born that is quite a story yes and let it be a lesson to you for the story that God has in mind for you may be very different from what you have planned the great adventure is finding God's will for your life oh I did not know you had company yes this is Samuel we met in the village ah aren't you mrs. Watson's oldest eye she's me stepmum oh why don't you join us on Tuesday John and I have begun a Bible School for the area children yes you'll improve your reading skills and at the same time learn more about the Bible if you're leading it then out come John please remember that William Cowper is coming later to work on the poem yes I do mr. calpro and I are working on some spiritual poems which can be sung to popular tunes like black-eyed Susan or Mad Robin I know them of course you do some very important work to do yes thanks for telling your story well thank you for listening Samuel and you'll be here on Tuesday alright I'll be here on Tuesday [Music] you [Music] yes rady John Netley cloth once an infidel libertine a servant of slaves in Africa was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ preserved restore and pardoned and appointed to preach the faith he had long labor to destroy he changed my life few years later he was called the Saint Mary my judge and I was old enough I told early at William Wilberforce join the movement to abolish the slave trading took years the bill passed poem in 1807 seniors do the same year that you bowl now it's out here böck he moved to see the evolution of the site train oh so he did it no he alone many working together he did change the world and changed my life the life of a little boy who was hurt angry at the world you told me something a gentleness and if God's grace [Music] and I hope you have the chance to learn of that grace as well [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri May 01 2020