ich doubtless will occur to you,
might be:--1. Missionary Society; 2. Ryanism; 3. Canadian
Conference formed; 4. Clergy reserve land matter; 5. _Christian
Guardian_ commenced; 6. Church Land and Marriage Bill; 7. Victoria
College; 8. Book-Room; 9. Centenary celebration and fund; 10. Union
with the British Conference; 11. Hudson Bay mission; 12. Disruption
with British Conference; 13. Re-union; 14. Superannuated ministers;
Contingents; Chapel Relief, and Childrens' Funds; 15. Remarkable
camp-meetings--Beaver Dams, some one hundred and fifty professed
conversion; seventy or eighty joined the Church. Ancaster Circuit:
Peter Jones converted. Yongestreet Circuit: Mrs. Taylor converted
under a sermon preached by Wm. Hay. Bay Circuit: Peter Jacobs, and
many other Indians saved. Hamilton, back of Cobourg, held in time
of Conference--Bishop George presiding; when and where the Rice and
Mud Lake bands were all converted; a nation born in a day! 16. The
first protracted meeting; held at the twenty-mile camp, by Storey
and E. Evans, and Ryerson, P. E.--no previous arrangement, between
two hundred and three hundred professed religion, the wonderful
work spreading through most of the Niagara district.
In a letter to me dated Guelph, 9th June, 1877, Dr. Ryerson said:--I
came here yesterday forenoon, and was most respectfully and cordially
received by the Conference. In the course of the day, Rev. J. A.
Williams, seconded by Rev. E. B. Ryckman, moved that I be requested to
prepare a history of the principal epochs of our Church, etc. The
resolution, with many kind and complimentary remarks, was unanimously
passed by a standing vote. I assented, and am now committed to the work,
and will lose no time in commencing--dividing my time between it and my
history, which I hope to complete in a few months. I hope before the
next General Conference to complete what this Conference has requested,
and what, from what I hear, will be repeated by other Conferences. As I
am endeavouring to do some justice to the founders of our country and
its institutions, I hope to do the same for the Fathers of our Church
and its institutions. I spoke last night at the reception of young men,
and my remarks were very favourably received.
In a letter to me from Whitby, dated 27th June, Dr. Ryerson
said:--To-day I had the great pleasure of laying the foundation stone of
an
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