MASON:
Dominic S. The Evening Telegram August 20, 1989 (Sunday)
Mason:
Elizabeth: The Fisherman's Advocate, April 30, 1971, page 3)
Mason:
Joseph J. of
Port Union (The Fisherman's Advocate, April 5, 1968, page 3)
MASON:
Leonard Harshaw
Mason:
Mrs. Martha (Port Union) (The Fisherman's Advocate, September
20, 1935, page 4)
MASON,
Michael Newfoundlander March 26, 1866 (Monday) Died. - At
Salmon Cove, on the 19th inst., after a short illness, Mr.
Michael Mason, aged 40 years.
MASON:
Peter Clarence (Catalina) (The
Fisherman's Advocate, May 2, 1930, page 8)
Amazing
grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas
grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through
many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The
Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yea,
when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The
earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine.
When
we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.
Amazing
Grace; Words: John Newton, Olney
Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779). Exception: the last stanza
is by an unknown author; it appeared as early as 1829 in Baptist
Songster, by R. Winchell (Wethersfield, Connecticut), as the
last stanza of the song “Jerusalem My Happy Home.”
Music:
“New Britain,” in Virginia Harmony,
by James P. Carrell and David S. Clayton (Winchester, Virginia:
1831)
This is probably
the most popular hymn in the English language a television
documentary was even made about it. Perhaps it is because its
words so well describe the author: John Newton was a slave trader
before coming to Christ.
