on of virtue and knowledge among these people will be
the departure of gain which arises from abuse, fraud, and debauchery. 2.
That these agents are not always men who respect the Sabbath. 3. That
the Missionary's "absurd advice" was in effect that the Indians should
apply to their Great Father to remove such agents from among them. 4.
That their "craft being endangered," the agents and parties concerned,
"with studied design, sought to injure the missionary in the estimation
of His Excellency, and to destroy all harmony in their operations, in
order, if possible, to compel the Missionary to abandon the Mission
Station." The effect of this controversy was very salutary. His
Excellency, having reconsidered the Case, "gave merited reproof and
suitable instructions to the officers of the Indian Department in regard
to their treatment of the Methodist Missionary." Dr. Ryerson adds:--We
had no trouble thereafter on the subject.

[30] Another disturbing element entered subsequently into this
controversy. And this was especially embarrassing to Dr. Ryerson, as it
proceeded from ministers in the same ecclesiastical fold as himself. I
refer to the adverse views on church establishments, put forth by
members of the British Conference in this country and especially in
England (to which reference is made subsequently in this book). Dr.
Ryerson was, as a matter of course, taunted with maintaining opinions
which had been expressly repudiated by his Methodist "superiors" in
England. He had, therefore, to wage a double warfare. He was assailed
from within as well as from without. Besides, he had to bear the charge
of putting forth heretical views in church politics, even from a
Methodist standpoint. He, however, triumphed over both parties--those
within as well as those without. And his victory over the former was the
more easily won, as the views of the "British Methodists," on this
question were almost unanimously repudiated by the Methodists of Canada.
See "Epochs of Canadian Methodism," pp. 330-353.--H.

[31] See pages 63, 64 of the _Christian Guardian_ for 1831; also page
90, _ante_.

[32] See _Christian Guardian_ of Feb. 19th, 1831, and also the pamphlet
containing the whole of this series of eight letters, entitled: "Letters
from the Reverend Egerton Ryerson to the Honourable and Reverend Doctor
Strachan, published originally in the _Upper Canada Herald_; Kingston,
1828," pp. 42, double columns. See page 80.--H.

[33] For re