Burford and see Mr.
Matthews, as he has a great deal of influence in Burford and the
Governor's Road? Egerton, by all means, try and go, even if you have to
neglect appointments. Though I know it is hard for you, I am sure the
approbation of your conscience, and the approbation of the Church, will
afford you an ample reward. It will also be necessary for you to keep a
look out about Ancaster. Write to Rev. James Richardson, and tell him
to look out, and also write to Rev. S. Belton, and Rev. A. Green. Don't
fail to go to Burford and, if you can, to Long Point also, and hold
public meetings on the subject.[21]

_Nov. 26th._--At the Conference held this year (1828), at Switzer's
Chapel, Ernestown, Bishop Hedding presiding, resolutions were adopted
organizing the Canada Conference into an "independent Methodist
Episcopal Church in Canada." Subsequently, Rev. Wilbur Fisk, A.M.,
Principal of the Wilbraham Academy, U.S., was elected General
Superintendent, or Bishop, of the newly organized Church. Dr. Ryerson
was deputed to convey the announcement of this election to Mr. Fisk,
which he did on this day, as follows:--

The Canada Conference of the M.E. Church have taken the liberty of
nominating you for our General Superintendent, agreeably to the
resolutions of the General Conference. I take the liberty, and have the
pleasure of observing that the nomination was warm and unanimous; and I
hope and pray, that while our wants excite your compassion, our
measures, in this respect, will meet your cordial approbation and
receive your pious compliance. Although writing to a person whom I have
never seen, yet the pleasure and profit I have derived in perusing your
successful apologies in favour of the pure Gospel of Christ against the
invasions of modern libertinism, remind me that I am not writing to an
entire stranger; and your able and affectionate appeal to the late
General Conference in behalf of Canada--of which my brothers gave a most
interesting account--emboldens me to speak to you "as a man speaketh
with his friend." Rev. Dr. Fisk's reply to this letter is as follows:--

The deep solicitude I have felt, to weigh the subject well, to watch the
openings of divine providence, and decide in the best light, have
induced me to deliberate until this time [April]. All my deliberations
upon this subject have resulted in a confirmation of my earliest
impressions in relation to it--that it will not be prudent for me to
accept of th