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This esti survive She died in six months--just after her husband had returned from America In a letter from Rev E

Grindrod, dated March, 1834, he says, Mrs Marsden died, after a short illness, on 22nd February She was one of the ht pattern of every Christian virtue Her end was delightfully triu is an extract from Dr Ryerson's diary of this year:--

After many earnest prayers, mature deliberation, and the advice of an elder brother, I have decided within the last few ain into the married state The lady I have selected, and who has consented to become my second wife, is one whom I have every reason to believe possesses all the natural and Christian excellencies of hter of a pious and wealthyFor her my late wife also entertained a very particular esteement, humble piety, and affectionate disposition, I doubt not but that she willand valuable companion, a judicious house-wife, and an affectionate mother to my two children Truly I love her with a pure heart fervently I receive her, and hope ever to treat and value her as the special token of my Heavenly Father's kindness after a season of His chastisement If thou, Lord, see fit to spare us, lory and the salvation of sinners!

Dr Ryerson's , took place at Toronto, on the 8th of Noveland, Dr Ryerson received the following note from Rev

Dr J P Durbin, in which he said: After I parted with you at e your correspondence for our paper, at least once a week, if possible, for the benefit of our people and country, through the Church Can you not write us by every packet?

Inforlish Methodis, especially their financial arrangeently of theood of our Zion--H

[39] In Epochs of Canadian Methodism, Dr Ryerson says:--When the writer of these Essays was appointed a representative of the Canadian Conference to negotiate a union between the two Conferences in 1833, he carried a Petition to the King, signed by upwards of 20,000 inhabitants, against the Clergy Reserve Monopoly and the Establishment of a Dominant Church in Upper Canada This petition was presented through Lord Stanley, the Colonial Secretary Page 221--H

[40] Dr Ryerson has left no record in his ”Story” of the negotiations for this Union His report, however, on the subject will be found on pages 193, 194, Vol iv of the _Guardian_ for October 16th, 1833, fro extracts: On the 5th June, Rev Messrs

Bunting, Beecham, Alder, and myself, examined the whole question in detail, and prepared an outline of the resolutions to be subrant of 1,000 be appropriated the first year to the proust these resolutions were introduced by Rev John Beecham (Missionary Secretary) They were supported by Rev Jabez Bunting, Rev

Jas Wood (now in his 83rd year), and Rev Robert Newton A Committee was appointed to consider and report on the wholeof the President, Secretary, and seven ex-Presidents, the Irish representatives (Messrs Waugh, Stewart, and Doolittle), and fifteen other ministers This Committee considered and reported these resolutions, which were adopted and forms the basis of the Articles of Union Hereafter, the naed from ”The Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada,” to ”The Wesleyan Methodist Church in British North America”--H

CHAPTER XI

1833-1834

”Iland and their Effects

On otiated the Union of 1833 with the English Conference, accoe Marsden, as first President of the Canadian Conference, I was re-elected editor of the _Christian Guardian_, and continued as such until 1835, when I refused re-election, and was appointed to Kingston; but in November of the saland (Rev

Williae pecuniary difficulties, which had arisen between him and the London Wesleyan Missionary Coraph, Dr Ryerson has left no particulars of the events which transpired in his history from the period of his return to Canada in September, 1833, until some time in 1835 I have, therefore, selected what follows in this chapter, from his letters and papers, to illustrate this busy and eventful portion of his active life

The principal circumstance which occurred at this time was the publication of his soland This event marked an important epoch in his life, if not in the history of the country

The publication of these ”I this year created quite a sensation Dr Ryerson was immediately assailed with a storm of invective by the chief leaders of the ultra section of politicians hoenerally acted By the enerally he was hailed as the champion, if not the deliverer, of those ere really alarmed at the rapid strides towards disloyalty and revolution, to which these extre the people

This feature of the unlooked for and bitter controversy, which followed the publication of these ”impressions,” will be developed further on

_October 2d, 1833_--On this day the Upper Canada Conference ratified the articles of union between it and the British Conference, which were agreed upon at the Manchester Conference on the 7th of August (See note on page 119)[41] At the Conference held this year in York (Toronto), Dr Ryerson was again elected editor of the _Guardian_ He entered on the duties of that office on the 16th October

_October 30th_--In reply to the many questions put to Dr Ryerson on his return to Canada, such as: ”What do you think of England?” ”What is your opinion of her public men, her institutions?” etc, etc, he published in the _Guardian_ of this day the first part of ”Iard to public eneral state of the nation He said:--

There are three great political parties in England--Tories, Whigs, and Radicals, and two descriptions of characters constituting each party Of the first, there is the lish ultra tory is e believe has usually been meant and understood in Canada by the unqualified ter in power, a tyrant in politics, and a bigot in religion This description of partizans, we believe, is headed by the Duke of cumberland, and is followed not ”afar off” by that powerful party, which presents such a formidable array of numbers, rank, wealth, talent, science, and literature, headed by the hero of Waterloo This shade of the tory party appears to be headed in the House of Colis, member for the Oxford University, and is supported, on enious politician and fascinating speaker, Sir Robert Peel, with his nu those who support the distinguishi+ng hest Christian virtue and piety; and, our decided impression is, that it e of the British Nation The acknowledged and leading organs of this party are _Blackwood's Magazine_ and the _London Quarterly Review_

The other branch of this great political party is what is called the h-toned neighbour; but he acts frooverns his private as well as his public life To this class belongs a considerable portion of the Evangelical Clergy, and, we think, a majority of the Wesleyan Methodists It evidently includes the great body of the piety, Christian enterprise, and sterling virtue of the nation It is, in time of party excitement, alike hated and denounced by the ultra Tory, the crabbed Whig, and the Radical leveller Such was our impression of the true character of what, by the periodical press in England, is termed a moderate Tory Frority, his honesty, his consistency, his genuine liberality, and religious beneficence, claireat political and now ruling party in England are the Whigs--a term synonymous hey, applied, it is said, to this political school, from the sour and peevish teh it is now rather popular than otherwise in England The Whig appears to differ in theory from the Tory in this, that he interprets the constitution, obedience to it, and all ard to its administration, upon the principles of expediency; and is, therefore, always pliant in his professions, and is even ready to suit his nates the land, or in the world, which is the leading organ of the Whig party, backed by the forh Review_ The leaders of this party in the House of Lords are Earl Grey and the Lord Chancellor Brougham; at the head of the list in the House of Commons stands the names of Mr Stanley, Lord Althorp, Lord John Russell, and Mr T B Macaulay In this class are also includedcongregations

The third political sect is called Radicals, apparently headed by Messrs Joseph Huh acute, indefatigable, persevering, popular on financial questions, and always to the point, and heard with respect and attention in the House of Coious ious measure or object as such, and has opposed every measure for the better observance of the Sabbath, and even introduced a motion to defeat the bill for the abolition of colonial slavery; and Mr

Attwood, the head of the celebrated Birham political Union, is a conceited, boisterous, hollow-headed declailand appeared to me to be but another word for Republicanis instead of President The notorious infidel character of the majority of the political leaders and periodical publications of their party, deterred the virtuous part of the nation frohtest ornalish pulpit and nation have leaned to their leading doctrines in theory It is not a little remarkable that that very description of the public press, which in England advocates the lowest radicalis the Methodists in this Province Hence the fact that solish radicals previous to their egress from the mother country