{"id":"jw/letters/1775/81-to-walter-churchey","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"81 To Walter Churchey","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-1775-81-to-walter-churchey","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1775-81-to-walter-churchey-000"],"word_count":170,"themes_auto":["free-will","means-of-grace","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1775-81-to-walter-churchey-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1775-81-to-walter-churchey-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1775-81-to-walter-churchey","source_title":"81 To Walter Churchey","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Walter Churchey Date: LONDON, December 21, 1775. MY DEAR BROTHER, A few days ago my brother gave me a letter of yours dated November 24. I am surprised that one who has passed a winter in Scotland should complain of cold in Wales. It is not a good sign. I advise no one above twenty to think of learning Greek or Latin; he may employ his time abundantly better. But if John Broadbent has a turn for learning languages, by all means let him learn Welsh. This will turn to good account. And now is his time; you can direct and assist him herein. Meantime persuade him to refrain from screaming, and he will do well. I may speak in confidence to you; take care it do not transpire. Put no confidence either in T or his wife. I stand in doubt of them both. The printer is hastening on with the History; yet still I think him slow. I am, with love to Sister Churchey, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":170,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","means-of-grace","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:08:31.228317"}]}