he Scriptural and Wesleyan rights of
members of our Church against the exercise of ministerial authority
which has no warrant in Scripture nor in the writings of Mr. Wesley; and
I feel myself specially called upon by my position in respect to the
youth of the country, as well as by my strong convictions, to claim and
insist upon the Scriptural and Wesleyan rights of church membership in
behalf of the many thousands of children baptized by our
ministry--believing upon both Scriptural and Wesleyan grounds, it is due
to such children and to their parents.

I have no object in view, beyond what is avowed in this correspondence.
If I have had any personal ambition, it has been more than satisfied
both in the Church and in the country at large. I have nothing more to
seek or desire, than to employ the short and uncertain time that remains
to me in striving to become more and more meet for the intercourse of
the saints in light, to mature and promote for my native country the
great educational system in which I am engaged, and to secure to all
members of our Church, and to all parents and children baptized into it,
what I am persuaded are their sacred rights and privileges. I am
satisfied that Scriptural and Wesleyan truth will, as heretofore,
prevail, and that the Conference and the Church will yet rejoice in it,
however it may, for the moment, be clouded by error and
misrepresentation, or impeded by personal feelings, groundless fears, or
mistaken prejudice.

On the 13th June Dr. Ryerson made a request to the Conference that the
documents connected with his resignation be published in the _Guardian_.
He said:--

I wish the church to know the reasons which have influenced me on
this occasion--especially as I believe them to be both Wesleyan and
Scriptural. As I have for thirty years contributed to all the funds
of the preachers and Church, without receiving or expecting to
receive a farthing from them, and from the period and kinds of
labours I have performed in the Church, and from my wish to live in
connexion with it, I think my letters of resignation might at least
not be withheld from the members of our Church. If any expense
attend the publication of the correspondence between us, I will
defray every farthing of it.

I do not think any other member of the Conference is called upon to
do as I have done--my circumstances being peculiar. But I do not
wish