ength in preaching, and
let others read the prayers, when Methodism was only a Society
supplementary to the Church; but having in the order of Providence
grown up into an independent and separate Church, the preachers
were something more than mere preachers of the Word--they were
ministers of the Church, and ought to read as well as preach.

The address of the Irish Conference was read. Rev. T. Jackson said
he could bear testimony to the very respectful manner in which the
address of the British Conference had been received by the Irish
Conference, and he trusted the brethren would understand the import
and bearing of that remark. Rev. Mr. Entwistle referred to the
liberality and cheerfulness of the Irish preachers in their
difficulties, when Dr. Bunting replied that if they had been in
such difficulties their heads would have hung down.

Dr. Ryerson's diary ends here. A full account of the interviews and
discussions with the Wesleyan authorities in England are given in the
Epochs of Canadian Methodism, pages 407-426. The result was, that the
Committee on the subject reported a series of resolutions adverse to the
Canada representatives, which were adopted by the Conference after "more
than four-fifths of its members had left for their circuits." The
pacific resolutions of the Upper Canada Conference were negatived by a
majority, and it was declared "that a continuance of the more intimate
connection established by the articles of 1833 [was] quite
impracticable."

Thus was ignominously ended a union between the two Conferences which
had (nominally) existed since 1833, and which had promised such happy
results, and thus was inaugurated a period of unseemly strife between
the two parties from 1840 to 1847, when it happily ceased. What followed
in Upper Canada is thus narrated by Dr. Ryerson:--

The English Conference having determined to secede from the Union which
it had entered into with the Canadian Conference in 1833, and to
commence aggressive operations upon the Canadian Conference, and its
societies and congregations, a special meeting of the Canadian
Conference became necessary to meet this new state of things, to
organize for resenting the invasion upon its field of labour, and to
maintain the cause for which they had toiled and suffered so much for
more than half a century.

The prospects of the Canada Conference were gloomy in the extreme; th