f labour. The Connexion in Lower Canada were
anxious to secure him as a minister there. The question came up at an
official meeting in Quebec, and Rev. William Lord, who presided, wrote
to Dr. Ryerson on the subject, in May, 1835, as follows:--

Respecting your future appointment to this Province, I may mention
that several of the brethren objected to your leaving the Upper
Province, lest it should be thought you were sent away in disgrace.
I think, however, that I can obtain a station that will be deemed
honourable to yourself, and, I think, quite agreeable, affording a
fine field of usefulness. I am now sitting in the Quarterly
Meeting, and when the question of preachers for the next year came
on, I mentioned that I had conversed with you respecting taking a
circuit, in this Province. They unanimously requested that Brother
Wm. Squire and Brother Egerton Ryerson might be appointed to them
next year. I shall soon be in York, when I will endeavour to obtain
the consent of the friends there, and I think you will be pleased
with the place.

As an indication amongst others of the appreciation in which Dr.
Ryerson's services were held, Rev. R. Heyland, in a letter to him from
Adolphustown, said:--

The people in these parts are very desirous of seeing and hearing
the champion who has written so much in defence of Methodism, and
rescued the character of our Church from the odium which its
unprincipled enemies have been endeavouring to heap upon it for
years past. Be so good as to gratify them this once, and come and
dedicate our new chapel here.

_June 17th._--On this day, for the second time, Dr. Ryerson took leave
of the readers of the _Guardian_--having been relieved by the Conference
of the duties of Editor, at his own request. He said:--

I was, however, elected Secretary of the Conference, and was
stationed at Kingston. In addition, I was appointed, with Rev.
William Lord, President of our Conference, a delegate to the
American General Conference.

In his valedictory he said:--

In relinquishing my present position my thoughts are spontaneously led
back to the period--ten years since--when I first commenced public life.
At that time the Methodists were an obscure, a despised, an ill-treated
people; nor had their church the security of law for a single chapel,
parsonage, or acre of land.... Now the