and moral
oversight, as well as their literary training, are carefully
watched over and duly provided for; a conviction practically
evident by the fact that not only the members of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church, and other Methodists, but the members of the
Churches of England, Scotland and Rome have contributed largely,
and exerted themselves to establish colleges and higher seminaries
of learning for the superior education of their children.

2nd. That no provision for instruction in secular learning alone,
can compensate for the absence of provision, or care, for the
religious and moral instruction of youth in the most exposed,
critical, and eventful periods of their lives.

3rd. That it is of the highest importance to the best interests of
Canada that the Legislative provision for superior education, shall
be in harmony with the conscientious convictions and circumstances
of the religious persuasions, which virtually constitute the
Christianity of the country.

4th. That the exclusive application of the Legislative provision
for superior education, to the endowment of a college for the
education of the sons of that class of parents alone who wish to
educate their sons in a non-denominational institution,
irrespective of their religious principles and moral character, to
the exclusion of those classes of parents who wish to educate their
sons in colleges or seminaries where a paternal care is bestowed
upon their moral and religious interests, at the same time that
they are carefully and thoroughly taught in secular learning; is
grossly illiberal, partial, unjust and unpatriotic, and merits the
severest reprobation of every liberal and right-minded man of every
religious persuasion and party in the country.

5. That the ministers and members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church,
aided by the liberal co-operation of many other friends of
Christian education, have largely and long contributed to establish
and maintain Victoria College, in which provision is made for the
religious instruction and oversight of students, independent of any
Legislative aid--in which there are fifty-nine students in the
Faculty of Arts, besides more than two hundred pupils and students
in preparatory and special classes--in which no religious test is
permitted