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The Story of My Life
Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada

The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada

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"THE STORY OF MY LIFE."

BY THE LATE

REV. EGERTON RYERSON, D.D., LLD.,

(Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada.)

PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF HIS LITERARY TRUSTEES:

THE REV. S.S. NELLES, D.D., LL.D., THE REV. JOHN POTTS. D.D., AND J. GEORGE HODGINS, ESQ., LL.D.

EDITED BY

J. GEORGE HODGINS, Esq., LL.D.

"His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix't in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, This was a Man!"
Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act v., sc. 5.
Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solida—
Horace. Odes, iii. 3.

WITH PORTRAIT AND ENGRAVINGS.

TORONTO:
WILLIAM BRIGGS, 78 and 80 KING STREET EAST.
1884.


Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, by Mary Ryerson and Charles Egerton Ryerson, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa.


CONTENTS.

Preface ix
Estimate of Rev. Dr. Ryerson's Character and Labours 17
CHAPTER I.—1803-1825.
Sketch of Early Life 23
CHAPTER II.—1824-1825.
Extracts from Dr. Ryerson's Diary of 1824 and 1825 32
CHAPTER III.—1825-1826.
First Year of Ministry and First Controversy 47
CHAPTER IV.—1826-1827.
Missionary to the River Credit Indians 58
CHAPTER V.—1826-1827.
Diary of Labours among Indians 64
CHAPTER VI.—1827-1828.
Labours and Trials.—Civil Rights Controversy 80
CHAPTER VII.—1828-1829.
Ryanite Schism.—M. E. Church of Canada organized 87
CHAPTER VIII.—1829-1832.
Establishment of the Christian Guardian.—Church Claims resisted 93
CHAPTER IX.—1831-1832.
Methodist Affairs in Upper Canada.—Proposed Union with the British Conference 107
CHAPTER X.—1833.
Union between the British and Canadian Conferences 114
CHAPTER XI.—1833-1834.
"Impressions of England" and their effects 121
CHAPTER XII.—1834.
Events following the Union.—Division and Strife 141

CHAPTER XIII.—1834-1835.
Second Retirement from the Guardian Editorship 144
CHAPTER XIV.—1835-1836.
Second Mission to England.—Upper Canada Academy 152
CHAPTER XV.—1835-1836.
The "Grievance" Report; Its Object and Failure 155
CHAPTER XVI.—1836-1837.
Dr. Ryerson's Diary of his Second Mission to England 158
CHAPTER XVII.—1836.
Publication of the Hume and Roebuck Letters

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