expressed wish) to prepare another volume, giving,
from private letters, memoranda, and various documents, a personal
history of the founding and vicissitudes of our educational system from
1844 to 1876 inclusive.

FOOTNOTES:

[124] The second resolution adopted by the Victoria College Board, on
the 24th October, 1843, says:--the noble and comprehensive objects of
the amended Charter have been entirely defeated; and the abrogated,
sectarian Charter has been virtually restored, by the partial and
exclusive manner in which appointments to that institution have been
made, and its affairs managed; apart from the misappropriations of large
portions of its funds.

[125] In September, 1839, Rev. Robert Murray, of Oakville, published a
series of lectures on "Absolute Abstinence." From a review of these
lectures, by Dr. Ryerson in the _Guardian_ of the 18th of that month, I
make the following extracts:--

We confess we have seldom read anything so illiberal and sweeping....
The principle of total abstinence is wholly repudiated, and temperance
societies are forbidden an existence.... But such a work ... shall not
by us be allowed to go forth without the accompaniment of our decided
reprobation. This is not the day for encouragement to be given to the
drunkard, nor this the time when a Minister of the Gospel is ... to fill
the cup of death and present it to his fellows without an attempt being
made to dash it to the ground.

The following extract from the second lecture, relating to the
fulfilment of a certain prophecy in the book of Jeremiah, is given by
Dr. Ryerson:--

"Many of you, I am persuaded, have witnessed this prophecy fulfilled to
the very letter. Have you never seen young men making themselves
cheerful with malt liquors, while the young maids were producing the
same effect with the blood of the grape? Nor is there the slightest
doubt on my mind, that the prophet hailed this event as a special
manifestation of the great goodness of God."

It was in reference to the author of such opinions, and the advocate of
such views, that Rev. John Ryerson used the language quoted on the
preceding page.

[126] On the 19th October, 1844, Dr. Ryerson was appointed
Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada. Of his appointment, Rev.
Dr. Bethune, Editor of _The Church_, on the 25th October, said:--It was
an impolitic and a heartless step, as regards the Church of England in
this colony, to raise to the office of Superinten