{"id":"jw/letters/1781a/19-to-john-valton","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 19 To John Valton","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-1781a-19-to-john-valton","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-19-to-john-valton-000"],"word_count":143,"themes_auto":["free-will","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1781a-19-to-john-valton-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1781a-19-to-john-valton-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1781a-19-to-john-valton","source_title":"A 19 To John Valton","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To John Valton Date: WARRINGTON, April 9, 1781. MY DEAR BROTHER, As I have. made a beginning, as the men and women are already separated in the chapel at Manchester, I beg that Brother Brocklehurst See letter of Oct. 1, 1780, to Valton. and you will resolutely continue that separation. This is a Methodist rule, not grounded on caprice, but on plain, solid reason; and it has been observed at Manchester for several years: neither upon the whole have we lost anything thereby. By admitting the contrary practice, by jumbling men and women together, you would shut me out of the house; for if I should come into a Methodist preaching when this is the case, I must immediately go out again. But I hope this will never be the case; I think you have more regard for Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":143,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:16:28.618483"}]}