{"id":"jw/letters/1771/68-to-christopher-hopper","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"68 To Christopher Hopper","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":null,"date_precision":"unknown","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"jw-letters","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-letter-1771-68-to-christopher-hopper","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1771-68-to-christopher-hopper-000"],"word_count":170,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","social-holiness","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1771-68-to-christopher-hopper-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1771-68-to-christopher-hopper-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1771-68-to-christopher-hopper","source_title":"68 To Christopher Hopper","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Christopher Hopper Date: BRISTOL, September 22, 1771. MY DEAR BROTHER, You and I differ a little in our judgement. I take Yarm Circuit to be a very comfortable one. But I see an evil growing among us: preachers claim to be two years together in the same round, because it has been suffered sometimes; but if it be so, I must suffer it no more. Every preacher shall change every year; unless they will leave it to my judgement to make an exception now and then when I may see sufficient cause. However, for the present, if Thomas Hanson is willing, you may change circuits with him. To a request which I did not approve of silence was the mildest answer. Nevertheless I had rather you had been at Leeds. I believe you would have done more good. But others had spoke first. Pray let them not be beforehand with you, if we live to another year. I am, with love to Sister Hopper, Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":170,"source_url":null,"themes":["social-holiness","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:05:40.194817"}]}