nd I will not insult
you by expressing a desire that you were a high conservative.

I do not flatter you in saying, that on no man in Upper Canada does
the peace of our Church and of the Province so much depend, as on
yourself. May all your powers be employed for good! Guard against
the fascination of political fame. It will do no more for you on a
dying bed than it did for Cardinal Wolsey. O! that your fine mind
were fully concentrated upon the [Greek: politeuma] of Heaven!

FOOTNOTES:

[96] Dr. Ryerson, in the _Guardian_ of October 31, 1838, says:--Five
columns of _The Church_, of the 20th ult., are occupied with an appeal
to the old country Methodists, to induce them to oppose the Conference
and Connexion in this Province in the clergy reserve question. The
Cobourg _Star_ follows in the wake of _The Church_, in the same pious
crusade. The _Patriot_ of the 26th inst. also copies the schismatic
appeal of _The Church_.

[97] Even Rev. J. Stinson (who heartily sympathized in many things with
the Canadian Methodists), in a letter to Dr. Ryerson, written in
February, 1839, said:--I have read your address to Hon. W. H. Draper, on
the clergy reserve question, with considerable attention; and while
there is much in it which I admire, I must honestly tell you, _en
passant_, that it contains more against the principle of an
establishment in this Colony than I like.

[98] Not satisfied with these strong appeals in the newspapers, resort
was had to personal ones, made to leading members of the missionary
party. In a kind and yet candid letter which Dr. Ryerson received in
November, 1838, Rev. Joseph Stinson says:--I sincerely sympathize with
you in your present perplexing and trying circumstances. I heard to-day
that some of the dominant church champions are appealing to me to array
myself against you. They may save themselves the trouble of making such
appeals. Whenever I have differed in opinion with you, I have told you
so, and shall do so again,--but shall never, unless you become a
revolutionist, either directly or indirectly sanction any factious
opposition to you. I think, as Wesleyan Methodists, we ought, openly and
fearlessly, to advocate the righteous claims of our own Church; but we
ought to do it without detracting from the merits or opposing the
interests of that Church which is so closely connected with our
Government, as is the Church of England. I know that the exclusive
sp