{"id":"jw/letters/1785b/40-to-thomas-wride","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"B 40 To Thomas Wride","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-1785b-40-to-thomas-wride","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1785b-40-to-thomas-wride-000"],"word_count":134,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1785b-40-to-thomas-wride-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1785b-40-to-thomas-wride-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1785b-40-to-thomas-wride","source_title":"B 40 To Thomas Wride","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Wride Date: LONDON, November 17, 1785. DEAR TOMMY, - Deal plainly yet tenderly with James Byron, and he will be a very useful laborer. But none can be a Methodist preacher unless he is both able and willing to preach in the morning, which is the most healthy exercise in the world. I desire that none of our preachers would sing oftener than twice at one service. We need nothing to fill up our hour. See letters of Nov. 8 to him, and Dec. 14 to McKersey and Byron. In every place where there is a sufficient number of believers do all you can to prevail upon them to meet in band. Be mild, be serious, and you will conquer all things. - I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother.","word_count":134,"source_url":null,"themes":["universal-redemption","catholic-spirit","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:20:42.932387"}]}