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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 11.

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By the Grace of God.

JOHN NEWTON, in his old age, when his sight had become so dim as to be unable to read, hearing this scripture repeated, “By the grace of God I am what I am,” paused for some moments, and then uttered this affecting soliloquy: “I am not what I ought to be. Ah! how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon, I shall put off, with mortality, all sin and imperfection. Though I am not what I ought to be, what I wish to be, and what I hope to be, yet I can truly say I am not what I once was, a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, ‘By the grace of God I am what I am.’”