{"id":"jw/letters/1775/24-to-james-dempster","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"24 To James Dempster","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-1775-24-to-james-dempster","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1775-24-to-james-dempster-000"],"word_count":106,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","means-of-grace","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1775-24-to-james-dempster-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1775-24-to-james-dempster-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1775-24-to-james-dempster","source_title":"24 To James Dempster","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To James Dempster Date: BALLINROBE, May 19, 1775. DEAR JEMMY, That one point I earnestly recommend, both to Brother Rankin and you and all our preachers by prayer, by exhortation, and by every possible means, to oppose a party spirit. This has always, so far as it prevailed, been the bane of all true religion, more especially when a country was in such a situation as America is now. None but the God of almighty love can extricate the poor people out of the snare. O what need have you to besiege His throne with all the power of prayer! I am, dear Jemmy, Yours affectionately.","word_count":106,"source_url":null,"themes":["means-of-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T20:08:03.267471"}]}