“I wish you and yours and I and mine may see the King in His beauty (Isa. 33:17) tomorrow (i.e. Sunday). O that name of Jesus! May it be precious to all our hearts and sound sweeter than music in our ears.
Goodnight.
I am sincerely yours,
John Newton
Olney
April 16, 1774″
–John Newton, Wise Counsel: John Newton’s Letters to John Ryland Jr., 2nd Edition, Ed. Grant Gordon (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2009/2026), 60-61.
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