{"id":"jw/letters/1787/41-to-thomas-wride","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"41 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-1787-41-to-thomas-wride","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1787-41-to-thomas-wride-000"],"word_count":112,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","pneumatology","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1787-41-to-thomas-wride-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1787-41-to-thomas-wride-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1787-41-to-thomas-wride","source_title":"41 To Thomas Wride","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Thomas Wride Date: LONDON, December 11, I787. DEAR TOMMY, Distilled liquors have their use, but are infinitely overbalanced by the abuse of them; therefore, were it in my power, I would banish them out of the world. It is no wonder that young man should be ruined who connected himself with that execrable bill trade. In London I expel every one out of our Society who has anything to do with it. Whoever endorses a bill (that is, promises to pay) for more than he is worth is either a fool or a knave See letters of Nov. 6, 1781, and June 7, I788. I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate brother.","word_count":112,"source_url":null,"themes":["universal-redemption","catholic-spirit","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:00.993139"}]}