of any members of the Canada Conference. After receiving Dr.
Beecham's answer, I shall finally decide as to my future course. I look
upon my connection with the Wesleyan body as virtually terminated. I
have not been in one of their chapels, or seen one of their ministers,
since I left America. On seeing, at Boston, what Mr. Spencer had
written, and what was likely to occur, I thought I would keep myself
entirely aloof until the final issue of the whole affair.

_London, 10th October._--I wrote you on the 5th inst., under the
influence of strong and indignant feelings. But I have since calmly, and
with much prayer and many tears, for days considered the whole matter of
Church relations. I have resolved to stand my ground in my present
position, and fight out the battle with my assailants.

In a letter to me, written a few days afterwards, Dr. Ryerson thus
states the conclusion which he had come to in regard to his remaining in
the Methodist Church. He said:--Last Sunday I heard a very powerful
sermon from Dr. Cumming on, "No man liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself;" and I resolved, by meditation and prayer, to come to a
conclusion on the subject of my Church relations, and future course. I
walked, and wept, and prayed over the subject from seven till twelve
o'clock last night, and the conclusion at which I have now arrived is to
stand in my present position and relation, and maintain my views, and
let my opponents do their worst, and thrust me out if they will or can.
If I lived to myself, that is, if I consulted my taste, feelings,
personal comforts, and enjoyments, I could not remain in the Methodist
Church a week; I have more views and sympathies with the evangelical
clergy and members of any Protestant church than I have with such men as
Mr. Spencer. But still I have, in the Providence of God, been called to
labour in connection with the Methodist Church, and have been prospered
in it; and I think, all things considered, I can do more good to stand
my ground. If I do nothing else than secure to Methodist children and
youth the recognition of their rights and privileges, and the
appropriate religious instruction and care, that point alone will
involve more good in the end than all I could do in any other section of
the Christian Church. If Methodist pulpits should be closed against me,
others will be opened to me in abundance.

_Paris, 18th October._--I feel very happy in my own mind since I have
finally