{"id":"jw/letters/1784b/03-to-arthur-keene","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 03 To Arthur Keene","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-1784b-03-to-arthur-keene","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1784b-03-to-arthur-keene-000"],"word_count":210,"themes_auto":["free-will","social-holiness","trinity"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1784b-03-to-arthur-keene-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1784b-03-to-arthur-keene-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1784b-03-to-arthur-keene","source_title":"B 03 To Arthur Keene","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Arthur Keene Date: NEAR LEEDS, July 23, 1784. MY DEAR BROTHER, - It is strange! Two or three weeks ago I was observing,' I have exactly the same strength and more health at eighty-one than I had at twenty-one.' This hath God wrought. The Irish preachers have shown both their understanding and their uprightness. I am glad they and you are satisfied with the Declaration, and. see Mr. Hampson's wonderful Appeal John Hampson, sen., issued a printed Appeal against the Deed of Declaration which Wesley had executed on Feb. 28 giving a legal constitution to the Conference. in its true light. Humanly speaking it must do abundance of mischief. But God is over all. I am in great hopes Mr. Rogers will be useful. He is an Israelite indeed. I think a cupboard, secured as you intend, will do full as well as an iron chest. Now, Arthur, I will try if you do love me. If you do, serve my friend, poor Sister Hyden. 'Hide' in letter of Feb. 17, 1785; probably ' Hyde.' Exert yourself to procure employment for her son, who is capable of almost anything. Send me word 'it is done.'-I am, with kind love to Sister Keene, dear Arthur Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":210,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","trinity","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:19:38.854531"}]}