1856:--Mr.
Spencer has given me notice that, as I have denied and repudiated the
terms upon which I had been re-admitted into the Conference, when my
name comes up in the examination of character, it will be moved
that the resolution re-admitting me into the Conference be rescinded.
I am glad of this. It will afford me an opportunity of exposing the
conduct of my assailants, and of entering into the whole question.
To-day the subject of class-meetings came up, by a philippic on the
subject by one of the ministers, in connection with the return of
members, and the manner of administering the Discipline. I at once
accepted the challenge--reiterated my sentiments, and stated when the
time came I should be prepared to show that they were founded on the
Scriptures, the primitive Church, the Fathers of the Protestant
Reformation, and such men as Baxter and Howe, down to the present
time. What I said seemed to be favourably received by a considerable
portion of the Conference. I think the Spencer clique (and it is only
a clique) will be disappointed greatly when the affair comes up. I feel
that I stand upon the Rock of Truth. I would that my soul were more
fully baptized with the Spirit of the Truth, the principles of which
I maintain.

On the 9th of June, he also wrote as follows:--This afternoon, on my
name being called, Rev. J. Borland moved, seconded by Rev. W. Jeffers,
the following resolution:--

_Resolved_, That as Dr. Ryerson has denied the authority of the
verbal assurances given in his behalf at the Conference in London,
and repudiated the basis upon which the resolution restoring him to
his former standing in the Conference was founded; therefore, all
that part of the said resolution which relates to his re-admission
be, and is hereby, rescinded.

When the President came to the question as to the examination of
character, he observed that that question was always considered with
closed doors, and intimated to strangers to withdraw. I arose at once,
and said that as far as I was concerned, notice had been given to me of
a resolution to exclude me from the Conference, and that upon the ground
of what had appeared in the public papers--that I had been
misrepresented and maligned in the official organ of the Conference--in
professed reports of what had taken place in the Conference, and I
demanded, as a matter of right and equity, that the proceedings of the
Conference should be public