our Indian youth--an object of
the very greatest importance, both to the religious and civil
interests of our aboriginal fellow countrymen. Also to get from the
New York Missionary Board a sum of money for the Indian work which
was expected from them before our Union with the English
Conference.

In a letter to Dr. Alder, written from New York in the same month, Dr.
Ryerson said:--

The concern of our preachers and friends on the Chapel case is deep
and truly affecting. As I took so responsible a part in the Union,
I cannot describe my feelings on this question. At the request of
our brethren I have undertaken to do what I could to secure our
Church property from the party claiming it. I have travelled nearly
500 miles this week for that purpose. But it is cheering amidst all
our difficulties, and the commotions of the political elements,
that our preachers, I believe, without exception, are of one
heart--that our societies are in peace--that the work of our
blessed Lord is reviving in many of the circuits, although the
cause in Kingston suffers, and my dear brethren there complain, in
consequence of my connexional engagements and absence from them.

FOOTNOTES:

[50] Between the Episcopal and Wesleyan Methodists for the possession of
the Church property. Waterloo was four miles north of Kingston.

[51] The Review is inserted in the _Guardian_, vol. viii., pages
169-178. The Belleville case was published in pamphlet form.

[52] This gentleman entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1835, but joined
the Church of England in 1840. He was for many years Chaplain to the
Penitentiary, at Kingston, and always retained a warm regard for Dr.
Ryerson. He died in 1877, aged 65 years.

[53] The particulars here referred to are given in detail in the "Epochs
of Canadian Methodism," pages 279-281.

CHAPTER XX.

1837.

The Coming Crisis.--Rebellion of 1837.

As Dr. Ryerson had anticipated, the combined effects of the publication
of his "impressions," in 1833; his letters exposing the designs of
Messrs. Hume, Roebuck, and Mackenzie in 1837; the secession of a section
of the Methodist Church, and the disputes consequent thereon
(culminating in the Waterloo and Belleville Chapel suits)--in which he
took a leading part--provoked the parties concerned to active hostility
against him. He had, however, many warm friends, especially among his