and eternal.

Respecting your leaving the country, I would say, that if your
brethren judge it best, you will receive a cordial welcome among
us; as I am sure you would from me. In the meantime, you would do
well to consult Bishop Hedding, who presides among us this year. I
thank you for the expressions of affection. Whatever of good you
may have received from my poor labours, let God have the praise and
glory. I never undertook any duties with more appalling feelings
than I did the present ones; and yet I have been wonderfully
blessed and favoured by providential indications. When I was called
to the Presidency of the Wesleyan University, I dared not say no;
but I accepted it with a trembling sense of my responsibilities,
and thus far I have been greatly blessed and comforted. I shall be
glad to see you, and remember that I have a prophet's room, and a
bed and a table for you.

From Rev. Dr. D. M. Reese, a noted member of the New York Conference,
Dr. Ryerson received the following letter:--

I am at a loss to say what is the opinion of our great men here,
touching your Canadian conflict with the British Conference; though
all our sympathies are with you. All concur that you have the
victory in your pamphlet war. I have not heard a different opinion
from any one who has read them. I suppose you may have learned how
cavalierly Rev. R. Newton treated Rev. Mr. Gurley, though
introduced to him by letters from those to whom Mr. N. was largely
indebted here. He refused to introduce him to Dr. Bunting, etc.,
although this favour was solicited. He neither invited Mr. G. to
see him again, nor even called on him. This British reciprocity of
American politeness is humiliating, and resembles the treatment you
and your brother received at his hands, as well as that of other
great men in the Wesleyan Conference towards you.

At the Special Conference of October, Dr. Ryerson was appointed
Corresponding Secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society of Upper
Canada. On the 10th November he issued a statement and appeal on behalf
of the Society. In it he indicates definitely the secret causes which
led to the disruption of the Union. He said:--

Zealous attempts have been made to lead astray sincere friends of
Methodism and religion by the pretense that party politics is the
[difficulty]. Never was a