is
inquiring whether or not you will take up the subject.

An appeal was made to the King's Bench at Toronto. This Court--

Set aside the verdict of the lower Court, and ordered a new
trial.... At this second trial, as also that respecting the
Belleville Church property case, [November, 1837], ... the whole
matter was "ventilated," and the result was that the legal decision
of the highest judicial tribunal of the land confirmed the Wesleyan
Methodist Church as the rightful owner of the Church property, it
being the true representative and successor of the original
Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada. These litigations extended
over more than two years, and the friends of Zion and of peace
greatly rejoiced when they were brought to a just and final
settlement. (Epochs of Canadian Methodism, pages 278, 279.)

In regard to these three judgments on the case, Dr. Ryerson said:--

During the latter part of this month I have devoted such time as I
could spare to a lengthened review for the _Guardian_, of the
elaborate judgments of Chief Justice Robinson, and Justices
Macaulay and Sherwood, on the Waterloo Chapel case.[51] The opinion
of the Chief Justice displays profound research, acute
discrimination, and sound judgment. The opinion of Mr. Justice
Macaulay indicates great labour and strict religious scrupulosity.
The opinion of Mr. Justice Sherwood betrays great want of
acquaintance with the discipline, usages, and general history of
Methodism. To the Methodist Connexion the conflict of opinion and
confusion of reasoning of these learned judges are most prejudicial
and disastrous. I have therefore sought, in the "review," to set
forth the true facts of this abstruse case--facts connected with
the history of Methodism--facts, with the most material of which I
am personally acquainted, and in the progress of which I have been
called to act a conspicuous part.

In regard to this "review," Rev. E. Healy wrote to Dr. Ryerson, from
Brockville, and said:--

I have read your review of the opinion of the judges, and am happy
to see it. What the judges will do with you, I do not know. You are
considered, I believe, by some in this part of the country, as part
man and part demon. This is one reason, doubtless, why I am also so
bad a man, as I have said so much in you