{"id":"jw/letters/1788a/53-to-mrs-rogers","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 53 To Mrs Rogers","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-1788a-53-to-mrs-rogers","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-53-to-mrs-rogers-000"],"word_count":247,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","free-will","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-53-to-mrs-rogers-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1788a-53-to-mrs-rogers-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1788a-53-to-mrs-rogers","source_title":"A 53 To Mrs Rogers","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To Mrs. Rogers Date: May 28, 1788. MY DEAR HETTY, My not hearing from you for so long a time would have given me concern, but I knew it was not from want of affection. I am glad to hear you prosper in your soul; rest in nothing you have attained, but press on till you are filled with all the fullness of God. In this day of God's power I hope many of the backsliders in Cork will be brought back; there are great numbers of them in and about the city, and many are of the. genteeler sort. It seems you have a particular mission to these; perhaps they will hear none but you. I hope you have already found out Mrs. Forbes (Captain Forbes's wife), and that now she is more than almost persuaded to be a Christian. The pearl on my eye is but just discernible, and dulls the sight a little, but not much. As it grows no worse, I do not much regard it. See letter of April 6. Mr. Smyth's society, I verily believe, will do us no harm At Bethesda, Dublin. The controversy about Methodist services in church hours. See previous letter and that of June 7 to Henry Moore.: and every one may speak of me as he will. I am just flying away as a shadow. It more than makes me amends that James and you still love and pray for, my dear Hetty, Your most affectionate.","word_count":247,"source_url":null,"themes":["free-will","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:34.061783"}]}