Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland, Jr. author_bainton-roland-h Yet the church has maintained

Yet the church has maintained a reputation for keeping quiet

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Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland, Jr. author_bainton-roland-h Yet the church has maintainedJohn Newton (1725 1807) has rightly been called the letter writer par excellence of the Evangelical Revival. Newton himself seems to have come to the conclusion, albeit reluctantly, that letter writing was his greatest gift. In a letter to a friend he confessed, I rather reckoned upon doing more good by some of my other works than by my Letters, which I wrote without study, or any public design; but the Lord said, You shall be most useful by them, and