The Ghosts Of The Past

I don't believe in ghosts - for the most part. There's one kind
of ghosts that are all too real. They talked about those "ghosts"
in the movie, "Amazing Grace." That movie told the story of
the 18th century British political leader, William Wilberforce.

He's, really more than any other man, responsible for the
abolishing of slavery in the British Empire. And that was
at a time when African slaves played a critical role in the
British economy and slave-owning interests controlled
many members of Parliament. The battle took twenty
years, but ultimately thousands of slaves went free.

Wilberforce's spiritual mentor was actually the man who
wrote America's most beloved hymn, "Amazing Grace."
In his early years, John Newton had been a slave trader,
capturing and carrying thousands of Africans to slavery
in Britain. Conditions were so brutal that many didn't
even survive the voyage. Then John Newton discovered
how Jesus Christ can forgive and change a man.

In the movie, John Newton is going blind but he's still
pastoring a church in London. And he believed in "ghosts"
you might say. As he dictates what he calls "My Confession"
to a scribe, he says, "I have lived for years with the company
of 20,000 ghosts - those I made into slaves. Their blood is
on my hands."


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