John Newton refused to have Handel’s Messiah performed in his church because he thought the music too worldly.
00857 – No Thanks, Handel!
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John Newton refused to have Handel’s Messiah performed in his church because he thought the music too worldly.
John Newton, a great English singer and powerful preacher of the gospel, was at one time in his life perfectly content with a secondhand religion and the external performance of religious duties. Aboard his slave ship on Sunday he faithfully read the prescribed...