ply to this statement see extract from Review given on p.
105.--H.

[34] In "a Pastoral Letter from the Clergy of the Church of Scotland in
the Canadas to their Presbyterian Brethren" issued in 1828, they
say:--"We did, in the year 1820, petition His Majesty's Government for
protection and support to our Church, and claimed, by what we believe to
be our constitutional rights, a participation in the Clergy Reserves."
Montreal, 1828, p. 2. This Pastoral Letter gave rise to a protracted
discussion for and against the Presbyterian side of the question.--H.

[35] The Report was adopted by a vote of 22 to 8. It stated:--The
ministry and instructions [of the Methodist Clergymen] have been
conducive--in a degree which cannot be easily estimated--to the
reformation of their hearers, and to the diffusion of correct
morals--the foundation of all sound loyalty and social order.... No one
doubts that the Methodists are as loyal as any other of His Majesty's
subjects, etc. Full particulars of this controversy will be found in Dr.
Ryerson's "Epochs of Canadian Methodism," pp. 165-218.--H.

[36] In "An Apology for the Church of England in Canada, by a Protestant
of the Established Church of England," the writer thus refers to this
controversy:--"Our Methodist brethren have disturbed the peace of their
maternal Church by the clamour of enthusiasm and the madness of
resentment; but they are the wayward children of passion, and we hope
that yet the chastening hand of reason will sober down the wildness of
that ferment," etc. Kingston, U.C., 1826, p. 3.--H.

CHAPTER IX.

1831-1832.

Methodist Affairs in Upper Canada--Proposed Union with the British
Conference.

Of the events transpiring in Upper Canada during 1831 and 1832, in which
Dr. Ryerson was an actor, he has left no record in his "Story." His
letters and papers, however, show that during this period he retired
from the editorship of the _Christian Guardian_, and that plans were
discussed and matured which led to his going to England, in 1833, to
negotiate a union between the British and Upper Canadian Conferences.
His brother George had gone on a second visit to England in March, 1831.
This second visit was for a twofold purpose, viz., to collect money with
the Rev. Peter Jones, for the Indian Missions, and also to present
petitions to the Imperial Parliament on behalf of the non-episcopalians
of the Province. I give extracts from his letters to Dr. Ryerson,
relatin