igh a hand, we shall
lose our Kingston Chapel and congregation altogether; and, should
the Kingston people shut their Chapel against us, it will be
impossible to keep things quiet in Lower Canada. I do not think it
necessary to sacrifice the Union to Kingston, nor is it necessary
to sacrifice Kingston, because a number of disaffected radicals in
the Bay of Quinte like to make the state of things here an excuse
for their anti-methodistical proceedings. If there were no Kingston
in existence, these men would never cordially love the Union.

_April_, 1834.--Dr. Ryerson received a letter from the new President of
the Canada Conference (Rev. Edmund Grindrod) dated London, England, in
which the latter said:--

One object of my visit will be to allay the hostility of our
Societies in the Lower Province to their union with us.

Mr. Alder (said Mr. Grindrod) was to have accompanied him, but at Mr.
Bunting's suggestion this plan was abandoned in the hope that--

The friends in Lower Canada, when they have had time to reflect,
would return to better views and feelings.

_Dec. 3rd._--Writing to Dr. Ryerson from Kingston, at this date, Rev.
John C. Davidson[44] says:--

I have been told by the most influential members of the Leaders'
Meeting here that pledges to the following effect have been most
solemnly given to them by Mr. Alder and Mr. Grindrod, viz:--That
the members of the British Society here did not, and were never to
make a part of the Societies governed by the Canada Conference;
that they were to remain as they always were; that their numbers
were to be returned to the home Conference; that our Society was to
be merged in theirs; and Kingston become the head of the Missionary
establishment in Canada,--always to be the residence of the
Superintendent, who was to control and regulate the Kingston
Societies; and that the Presiding Elder was to have nothing to do
with the town; that a large chapel was to be forthwith built,--to
be deeded to the British Conference; and that the minister in
charge of Kingston was always to be an Englishman.

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Towards the close of this year, the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada
was organized. Full details of this division are given by Dr. Ryerson in
the "Epochs of Canadian Methodism," pages 270-288. Happily this
se