very principle of civil and religious liberty--to
true Protestant freedom and to genuine Methodism, whether new or old?

CHAPTER LVII.

1854-1856.

Dr. Ryerson's Third Educational Tour in Europe.

While in Europe in 1854 and 1856, Dr. Ryerson, under the authority of
the Government, commenced the collection of objects of art for the
Educational Museum in the Education Department. While there he met Hon.
Malcolm Cameron, who after Dr. Ryerson returned to Canada, wrote to him
from London on the subject of his mission. In a letter, dated 3rd of
January, 1857, Mr. Cameron said:--

I have myself witnessed the result of the labour and reading which
you must have gone through with in order to obtain the information
and cultivation of judgment necessary to get the things our young
Canada can afford; things, too, of such a character and description
as shall be useful, not only in elevating the taste of our youth,
but of increasing their historical and mythological lore, as well
as inform them of the facts of their accuracy in size and form. I
was much flattered to find that my humble efforts to begin, in some
degree, a Canadian gallery--by securing a few of Paul Kane's
pictures in 1851--had been followed up by you in your
universally-acknowledged enlightened efforts for education, which
(in my bitterest moments of alienation from you, for what I
esteemed a sacrifice of Canadian freedom, and right to
self-government), I have ever cheerfully admitted.

Your determination to obtain a few works of art and statuary, a few
paintings, prints of celebrities, and scientific instruments, has
cost you much labour, anxiety and thought, which I never would have
conceived of had I not met you, and gone with you, and seen your
notes and correspondence.

You have passed through many trials, and in most of them I was with
you. The period that presses on my mind (as Lord Elgin said of
Montreal), I do not want to remember. God grant that we may see, in
all matters for the rest of our few days, eye to eye, as we do now
on all the subjects in which you are now engaged, publicly and
privately. I think God is with you, and directing you aright in
that Conference matter which is nearest to your heart, and I am
confident that you will have a signal triumph.

Dr. Ryerson has written the following account o