istry and Natural
Philosophy in Victoria College, for which he had devoted a year of
special preparation. I believe he has attributed his disappointment to
me, and that I had not acted toward him in a brotherly way, in not
securing his appointment, as he supposed I could have done from my
connection with the College. The fact was, I recommended his
appointment, at least for a trial, but my recommendation was not
concurred in by any other member of the Board, as Dr. Green and others
know.

[145] Dr. Ryerson, in his speech at the Brockville Conference, referring
to this omission, said:--The Conference passed a resolution
complimentary and affectionate towards myself, and expressive of its
high sense of my long services in defending the rights and advocating
the interests of the Connexion. The copy of that resolution has never
been communicated to me to this day; Mr. Spencer suppressed the
publication of it in the _Guardian_, and thus defeated the noble and
generous intentions of the great majority of the Conference in regard to
myself.

[146] To this proceeding, Dr. Ryerson also referred in his speech as
follows:--How did my opponents bring up their charge against me? Did
they inform the defendant of the approaching ordeal, and secure his
presence in an ecclesiastical court prior to his attempted execution?
No, Sir; the defendant obeys the call of duty, at personal sacrifice, to
attend to a meeting of the senate and annual public exercises of the
students of Victoria College; and, while absent, these professed
advocates of Methodistic rule, arraign him without notice, and seek to
get a resolution passed against him. Is that Methodism? Is that old
Methodism? If these, my assailants, believe, as they say, that the
interests of the Church will be greatly promoted by my expulsion, then
let them do it on Methodistic principles. Now, although I was well aware
that they were opposed to me personally, yet I thought, though I was
absent from the district meeting, they would treat me, at least,
honourably. If I had done wrong, let them accuse me--give me a specific
charge and due notice of trial, and let me prepare for my defence. This
would be the manly course--this would be Methodism; and if I had
committed no offence, if no charge could be brought against me, why seek
to exclude me from this body without a charge and without a crime? Is
not this course opposed to all proceedings of civil and ecclesiastical
tribunals, and to e