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Les diegrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. errata ito a pelure, on d n 1" t f ■ ^ [ f ■ 32X 1 . . 2 ,. 3 4 5 r 6 ) APPEAL OF THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE ON 'i'HE ^nestion of liberal ^totalion in Iptr Canak. from Iht Christian Guardian, November 30, 1859. We pablish this day, the Memorial prepared by order and la hebalf of the Oonference of the Wea- leyan Methodist Gharch in Canada to the Letrisla- ture, on the qaestions of the Provincial UniTersity, and OoUeges for Upper Canada. We commend this docament as an exposition of the views and feelings of more than four hundred Cbriutian Miaieters ; — a body of men whose self-denyinx labours stretch back to the earliest period of Canadian history, and extend to the remotest townships of Canadian immigration : a body of men who have been the pioneer champions of equal religions liberty in Canada, as they have been the pioneer migsionaries to its new settlements and Indian tribes : a body of men who have repeat- edly refused to receive any thing from the State which was not equally available to every other religions community ; who have never asked any thing for themselves or their own community except upon the principles of equal justice and rights to all religious denominations and classes, and who have made the first and most persevering exertions by voluntary ef- forts to promote academical education in (bo country. We recommend this memorial to the attentive pe- rusal of every reader, and especially of those editors and writers who have mistaken and misrepresented the views and objects of the Wesleyan Conference in regard to a Provincial University. We trust that the Globe, and Leader, and Montreal H'itneit, and other newspapers in which erroneous interpretations of the sentiments and motives of the Wesleyan Con- ference have been admitted, will insert this exposition of the views and requests of that body upon the whole question of the higher as well as elementary education of the country. We appeal to statesmen of all parties, to the clerity and members of all religious persuasion?, to ponder and compare theliberaj^'ust,and philanthropic views of this appeal of the Wesleyan Conference with the exclusive,sel6sb, and petty effusions of their assulants. We appeal to every philnnthropiat, to every think- ing man of every party, whether the remonstrances and recommendations of the Wesleyan Conference do not, in an economical. Christian, and national point of view, redound infinitely more to the highest and best educational interests of Upper Canada than the wasteful and contracted proceedmgs of the I'orooto monopolists. TheWeEleyaa Conference has taken il8 stand npon the plain intentions of the Legislature, as well as of justice and patriotism, while the proceed- ings of the Senate of the University have been in plain violation of those intentions. The only practical argument employed by these champions of extravagance and monopp\y, 19 tb3 senseless bu)t-bear of ''sectarian education," aaif it were not better for men to be educated with decided religions principles and feelings than with no re- ligious pnncip'es and feelings ; as if the religious principles of a university edncption at Oxford, (Jam- bridge oiaI Dublin, were an evil to be dreaded, and every graduate of either of those seats of learning was a monster to be avoided until he abandoned the faith of bis education ; as if that to which Scotland owes its highest glory, were a calamity to be depreca- ted, and as if every Scotch Minister in Canada i|rho had giaduatiid at a Scotch UniversKy.were a living beac" J of warning against the evils of " sectarian edu- cation," as if they would have been tp much better men had Christianity, and decided denominational Chrotiapity too, never beon blended with their upi- versity education. There may be degenerate men from Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, who 'now pro- fess to deprecate what they gloried in until a college monopoly was usurped by them. There may be Scotch graduates who, because a college monopoly can be turned to their account, will now exclaim against that of which they have ever before justly boasted as Scotchmen, and ministers and scholars; but every sound hearted man among them all, may be uppealed to, whether be regards the religions influ- ences of his university education ea an evil, and not a benefit, and whether he does not believe it would have been bttter rather than worse for him had those reli- gious influences been morepowerftil and more pracdal than they were. AVe appeal to the consciousaess and conscience of the Presbyterian minister and scholar against the pretensions of the Toronto Monopolists; and we appeal to the same conroiousnesa and con- science of the graduate of Oxford, Cambridgv, or Dublin against the same pretensions. We ask for no Sectarian University; na^ we de- sire a non-denominational, an impartial univer^jr to confer degrees in Science, Literature and Art; bm we ask for equal aid for a collegiate education which will blend the daily inSaences of religion with the daily stndiea of literature and science, which developes the moral as well as the intellectual man, which trauis th|i$ heart to divine virtue,while it stores the understandilig with human learning. As the embellishment of a private edifice is no proof of the intelligence and virtues of its ouonpants; as the marble and ornate splendour of the church edifice are no guarantee or indication of the ability and soundness of its pulpit discourses; so the costly magnificence of the collegiate edifice is no proof or security of even mediocrity in its standaid, or syateaf, or principles, or methods of instruction. History teaches that just in proportion as Greece and Bono lavished their resources upon stone and marble, upon the material and inanimate, they declined in the in- tellectual and moral; and we cannot but look upon the diminution of several thousand pounds a year in the available resources for promoting oollegiote education in Upper Canada, by the lavishing of one hundred thousand pounds instead of fizpeoding one hundred thousand dollars, upon a collegiate edifice in Toronto, as the dictate of vanity and selfishness rather than of wisdom and patriotism, asporieatons of evil rather than of ^ood to our country. Ours is not the country, nor even the age, in which the ne- cessary, the practical, and the useful are to be sacri- ficed to the "lust of the eye, and the pride of life," in which what has been Fet apart for other objects, and what should be husbanded and applied as a sacred treasure for the liberal education of the largest number of the rising and future generations of Caoeda, ia wasted by thousands in mosaics and cobbles, io an institution which ought not to be in- tended for Aou) but for work, and in a comparative- ly new and poor country, where every farihiug is required to aid the education of youth. Far be it from us to object to what is convenient and appropriate, and even plainly elegant in an educa- tional structure, whether a school or a college; but when it is considered bow simple and plain aro the halls and lecture rooms, in which the most learned Professors in Europe have lectured to princes and nobles as well as to plebians, and where the profoundest intellects that ever thought have been trained, we cannot but grieve that such examples are not followed in Upper Canada, and that the most precious and largest ofour educational funds should bo lavished upon what may make the City of Toronto proud instead of making the youth of Upper Canada learned. TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF CANADA : J%e Mmwrial prepared by order and in behalf of the Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Churcfi in Canada. Rkspkotfuixt Shewkth:— That the Legislature in passing the Provincial University Act of 1853, clearly proposed and avow- ed a threefold object: First, the creation of a Uni- versity for examining candidates, and conferring de- grees in the Faculties of Arts^ Law, and Medicine. Secondly, the establishment of an elevated curriou- lam of University education, conformable to that of the London University in England. Thirdly, the asso- ciation with the Provincial University of the several colleges already established, and which might be estab- lishM, in Upper Canada, with the Provincial Univer- dty, the same as various colleges of different denom- inatioDs in Great Britain and Ireland are aflSliated to the LoadoD University,— placed as they are upon equal footing, in regard to aid from the State, and on equal footing in regard to the composition of the Senate, and the appointment of examiners. In the promotion of these objects the Conference and members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church cordially concurred ; and at the first meeting after the passing of the University Act, the Senatonal Board of Vic- toria College adopted the programme of collegiate studies established by the Senate of the London University, and referred to in the Canadian Statute, But it soon appeared that the Senate of the Toronto University, instead of giving efi^et to the liberal in- tentioDB of the Lsgisnture, determined to identify the University with one college in contradistinction, and to the exclusion of all others, to establish a monopoly of senatorial power and public revenue for one college alone; so much so, that a majority of the legal quorum of the Senate now consists of the profeasors of one college, one of whom is invariably one of the two exatuiners of their owu student. canAdatet for degrees, honors, and scholarships. The cnrricolnm of the University studies, instead of being elevated and conformed to that of the London University, has been revised and changed three times since 1863, and reduced by options and otherwise below what it was formerly, and below what it is in the Britisii Universities, and below what is in the belt colleges in the United States. The affoot of this narrow and anti-liberal course, is, to build up one Colles;e at the expense of all others, to reduce the standa.-d of a University dcgrm in both Arts and Medicine bolow what it was before the passing of the University Act in ISiiS. Instead of confining the expenditure of fundi to what the law prescribed — namely, the "cur- rent expenses" and such " permanent improve- ments or additions to the buildines" as might be necessary for the purposes of the University and University College,— new buildings have been erect* ed at an expendituio of some hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the current expenses of the College have been increased far beyond what they were in former times of complaiat and investigations on this subject. Your Memorialists therefore submit, that in no respect have the liberal and cnli as teaching those branches which are embraced in the curriculum of a liberal edaoation, irrespective of denominational theology. We also disclaim any sympathy with the motives and objects which have been attributed by the ad- vocates of Toronto College monopoly, in relation to our National School system. The fact that a member of our own body baa been permitted by annual ap probation of the Conference to devote himself to the establishment and extension of onr school system, is ample proof of onr approval of tbatcystem: in addition to which we have from time to time ex- pressed our cordial support of it by formal resolutions, and by the testimony and example o' jur more than four hundred ministers throughout the Province. No religious co.nmunity in Upper Canada has, therefore, given so direct and effective support to the National School Bysteni as the Weeleyan community. But we have ever maintained, and we bubmit, that the same interests of general education for all classes which re- quire the maintenance of the elementary school sys- tem, require a reform in our University system, in order to place it upon a foundation equally compre- hensive and impartial, and not to be the patron and mouthpiece of one college alone; and the same con- siderations of fitness, economy, and patriotism which justify the State in co-operatiog with each school municipality to support a day school, require it to co-operate with each religious persuasion, according to its own educational works, to support a college . '1 he experience of all Protestant countries shovs that it ia, and has been, as much the province jf a reli- gious persuasion ^,o establish a college, as it is for a school municipality to establish a day school; and the same experience shows that, while pastoral and parental care can be exercised for the religious in- struction of children residing at home and attending a day school, that care cannot be exercised o- oiety. For snch is the tendency of onr natnre, that with all the appllaocei of religioos inatrootion and oeaieleea care by i ue parent and psitor, they are not al- ways eaooeaifBl in coanteraoting evil propensities and temptations; and therefore from a system which io- Tolv«s the withdrawal or absence of ail soch inflaencea for years ataperiod when yoathfnl pastions orestroug* est and yoatbral temptations most powerfnl, we cannot but entertain painful apprehensions. Many a parent would deem » his duty to leave his son without the advantages of a liberal education, rather than thns expose him (o the danger of moritl shipwreok in its acquirements. This danger don not so mneh apply to that very considerable class of persons whose home is. in Toronto; or to those grown up young men whose character and principles are formed, and who, for the most part, are pnisuing their rtudies by means ac- quired by their own hidastry and economy; or to the students of theological institutions established in To- ronto, and to which the University Ooliege answers the convenient purpose of a free Grammar School in certain secular branches. But such oases form the ex- ception, and not the general rule. And if one college at Toronto is liberuly endowed for certain classes who bare themselves contsibnted or done nothing to promote liberal edocotion, we submll that in all fair- ness, apart from moral and patriotic considerations, the State ought to aid with corresponding liberality those other classes who tor years nave oontributea largely to erect and sustain collegiate institntions, and who, while they endeavour to cunfer npon youth as widely ai poesible the odvanteges of a sound liberal education, seek to incorporate with it those moral in- fluences, anociations, ond nabits which give to edu- cation its highest value, which form the true basis and eement of civil institutions and nationsl c>iliza- tion, as well as of individual character and happiness. We therefore pray your Honorable House, to cause an investigation to be instituted as to the raonner in which the University Act has been ndministerpd, and the funds of the Univeraity of Upper Ganada College have been expended, the immense advent ge and ben- fits to the country of several competing colleges over the deadening and wasteful monopolv i>f one ooliege ; and cause an act to be passed by which all the col- leges now established, or which may be established in Upper Canada may be placed upon equal footing on equal terms in regard to public aid, either as so many co-ordinate university colleges, or (which we think the best system) as so many colleges of one university. Signed by order and in behalf of the Conference of t& Weslcyan Methodist Church, in Canada, JossPH Stinsok, D. IX President. Ei'HBAi)! B. Habpbr, Seerttary, PRTNTID PAPr.lJ. PREPAID. To. ) •. Of!) jyoti^'i ■; i"''"i