are satisfactory, are unanswerable.

The effect of this disruption was disastrous to the peace and unity of
the Wesleyan body, especially in the towns and cities.

Some time after the Conference, Dr. Ryerson received the following
characteristic letter from the venerable Thomas Whitehead, the President
of the Canada Special Conference:--

I have been not a little pleased with the expectation of seeing you
this evening, and of hearing you speak of the sorrows and joys of
Wesleyan Methodism in Upper Canada. God grant that you and I and
all of us, when our labours, sorrows and joys on earth are ended,
may meet around the throne of God and the Lamb. Your labours,
sorrows and joys for these years past have been unparalleled, and
to the present they are increasing. Well, you have been called
(with not a few invaluable assistants) to stand up in defence of
the Gospel, and have been sometimes placed near the swellings of
Jordan; however, you still rejoice in your labours, and the effects
thereof, and so do I; and, blessed be God, the Pilot of the
Galilean lake is still on shipboard, and he will soon speak peace
to the troubled waters, and there will be a great calm. I have no
doubt but Brother Green and Brother Bevitt (a comical soul) and
yourself have had cold travelling (I hope good lodging) in your
western rides; I am persuaded you have met with friends, and a
generous people. God bless them!

I greatly rejoice that our brethren in the ministry are faithful,
affectionate, and successful in defence of all that appertains to
the privileges of the glorious Gospel of the Son of God, long, long
preached by the Wesleyan Methodist ministers in the wilds of Upper
Canada, and I trust they will, by all Christian means and measures,
support Her Majesty's Government in Canada. May the Holy and
Blessed God give us peace, and good government in our day. I have
been a little vexed with the travelling gab of one of our own
former friends, who is pleased to inform the people that you were
the sole cause of the late rebellion. I must tell him, the first
time I meet with him, that the meaning of his sing-song is not
understood, and that if he will explain his hidden meaning, it will
be, that he is ready to prove that the Rev. Egerton Ryerson was the
sole cause of the rebellion in Heaven,