{"id":"jw/letters/1788a/40-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"A 40 To His Niece Sarah Wesley","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-40-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-40-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley-000"],"word_count":119,"themes_auto":["assurance","pneumatology","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1788a-40-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1788a-40-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1788a-40-to-his-niece-sarah-wesley","source_title":"A 40 To His Niece Sarah Wesley","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To his Niece Sarah Wesley Date: MANCHESTER, April 12, 1788. MY DEAR SALLY, I thank you for the account you have given me. It is full and satisfactory. You describe a very awful scene. The time, I doubt not, was prolonged on purpose that it might make the deeper impression on those that otherwise might soon have forgotten it. What a difference does one moment make! When the soul springs out of time into eternity, what an amazing change! What are all the pleasures, the business of this world, to a disembodied spirit! Let us, therefore, be ready. For the day is at hand! But the comfort is it cannot part you long from, my dear Sally, Yours invariably.","word_count":119,"source_url":null,"themes":["universal-redemption","pneumatology","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-01-30T05:22:26.641397"}]}