{"id":"jw/letters/1776/66-to-hannah-ball","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"66 To Hannah Ball","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-1776-66-to-hannah-ball","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1776-66-to-hannah-ball-000"],"word_count":180,"themes_auto":["justifying-grace","pneumatology","repentance"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1776-66-to-hannah-ball-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1776-66-to-hannah-ball-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1776-66-to-hannah-ball","source_title":"66 To Hannah Ball","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Hannah Ball Date: LONDON, November 30, 1776. MY DEAR SISTER, By the account you give, about a fourth part of those near you that were saved from sin stand fast after a trial of several years in that glorious liberty. Of those who received the blessing here in 1762 and 1763, I fear we have hardly a sixth part that have not been moved from their steadfastness. Whereas out of two-and-twenty who received it in Bristol, seventeen or eighteen, I think, retain it to this day. I should imagine most of those who have the advice and example of Mr. Valton would be in earnest: I mean, if he is of the same spirit he used to be; and I hope he does not go backward but forward. But there is something in the increase and decrease of the work of God among a people which all our wisdom cannot account for. However, we are to go on! We cannot stand still or turn back. There is the prize before us. I am, my dear Hannah, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":180,"source_url":null,"themes":["repentance","pneumatology","justifying-grace"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:13:33.898594"}]}