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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 "f « 4 4^ •If •4 AH »-JkAMI^'Jb^riWpt;^W/|Fy AlfD "A BaiEF STATEMi^ST OF PACTS fatt'ia* omnttmiak BY JOHN p0«iiAliB, STAN$fEAI>: tsso. MiiiMiilHii iMiMMiiiftMMHriiiiMaMli^ -..41 »***tI^''rfi;¥f;*'iTfif*;ffff'*;i:f?,^WW#fJ^ ^/i ^^ r-* i 2.-^ "AJ to* l|-a^ ' ^ t^-t'tlf^ ..^K /C-^ ''A J For 'He t r*f- Si AJV EXAilIIi\AT10^ OF, AND "A BRIEF STATEMEiNT OF FACTS, For the Consideration of the Methodist People, and the Public in General, particularly of Eastern Canada, BY R. HUTCHINSON, M. D. FmIc Weslcijan Missionary. ^^ BY JOHN BORLAND WESLEYAN MISSIONARY. "He that is n,«t in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometli and soarcheth him. "—iVotf. 18: 17. * STANSTEAD t. B. ROBIXSOW. 1850. " >, »^->. Ov TO THE Rev. MATTHEW LANG, Chairman, AND THE MLNISTERS OF THE CANAD\ EASTERN DISTRICT, IS THIS HUMBLE EFFORT TO VINDICATE THEIR, AND HIS OWN, CHRISTIAN AND MINISTERIAL CHARACTER FROM FOUL ASPERSIONS AND FANATICAL OPPOSITION, DEDICATED BY THEIR BROTHER, AND COMPANION IN TRIBULATION, AND IN THE KINGDOM AND PATIENCE OF JESUS CHRIST THE AUTHOR. I J. shou! eU." open pecul have ventii requi impri! injure tliese imlue bitter fssnn lately diaapi writlt iy ;i])| infliic ing p; ary tc whicli may I n- rite I they I result partic As liad ll on, he he reg ♦-itiue , lo Go ^ spol, uill ever huid liimsclf in readiness lodcfciul ilsdoclriiie:, ind (.bjects. 'I'his lie is oHeti enllei! U> do. and in all s.tc'.! instances should study to.how him.Hl- a ''W orl.nia.) needing not u> he asham- ed." But when he is called upon Hi dJcnd h;ii>scir from ciiarges, open nr inviiuiated, of fraud and inju^lice, he feels his position raUicr pecul.ar, a.id not so a,Tatif) in?: to hi < feclin.^s. In both these rrpi-ects have the ministers oC the gospel been exercised by the Millerite Ad- venlists. Not satisfied with introducing ivild speculations, and of requiring faith therein as an indispensable condition of salvation, and impatient of anjtiiini;- like opp(.s;uon, they have vari.,nsly tried to injure the christian tliaracter of their opponents. The writer of these puo-es has had much to bear from llK^m— bo'.h as it respects the influence of thiir delusion upun- his people— and their personal and bitter oppositirjn against himself, lie has sometimes deemed it nee essary to make them feel the. rod; lit hail hoped, liovvever, until very lately, that he had done n-iih any morr,' of these exercises, but he is disappointed. The pamphlet, to v, hich this is a reply, has lat; !y been uriiien, and is now industriously circulated. The object is suilicient- ly apparent, llavino', houever, abundant means to neutralize its influence, uhereverlhat influence mi-h! do us any injury, tlic follow- ing pag/^,s arc hastily pomed. Ti;. v are >vrittei; just ufier a x\Ii.,,ion. ary tour, and in the midst of the labors of a protracted meeting- which will be a sulhc ienl apolo,!:y for any verbal inaccuracy which may be apparent ; but as to thts/Ws and arguvicnis. although iiad the writer more time they nii^hi liave Iron presented in a belter style— they neveriheless will t, II tlieir own story, and he is without fear of the result. They are commiit. d to the ocriuus attention of llie reader in particular, and of the public in ;eially the ill-guided man who has Imd the teuieriiy to provoke the expc.nre which the -Reply-' has giv- en, he can sincerely say for their own ,^akes, an 1 for Uie truth's slke, he regrets the spirit they continue to manifest, and the course tiiey con- tinue to^pursue. "Every on. of us shall give an account of himself to God," may we, therefore, so act as that that account may be to "Bur personal advantage. Wcsicyan Mission House, ) Stanslead, Jarmary 2Jth, 1S.30. \ An Exaniinalion ot and Reply lo, A PAMPHLET ENTITLED «A BRIEF STATEJIEAT OF FACTS," &c. Our divine Redeemer has said "Woe unto the world because af oll'ences ! for it must needs be that oIlenceB come; but woe to that man by whom the oilence Com- eth !" These are words of solemn import, a due con- sideration of which, is well calculated lo sober the mind, and induce a disposition to bear long with the provoca- tions of others, rather than venture upon a conduct that might possibly lead to such fearful results. This fear, however, is not to neutralize the influence of a sense of duty. There are times when the call of duty will admit •f fjo hesitancy ; such, for instance, is the case, when the interests of religion are threatened — when the cause of God is concerned. Then to waver is to sin ; and to prove ourselves unworthy the name ©f a disciple o( the blessed Jesus, Such a call of duty is presented by the issuing of a pamphlet by "JR. Hutchlnson, M. D., laie Wesleyan Missionary," entitled, "A Brief Statement of Facts." It is another, with many previous attempts from the peo- ple with whom he is now associated, to destroy the influ- ence of a body of Mmisters, than whom, n«ne in the country have been more honored of God for the spiritu- al good of the people generally. It is barely possible that R. H. does not apprehend the amount of injury his pamphlet is calculated to elFect, were the means of its refutation diflicult ©f application ; we may therefore accord to him a greater measure of len- '&c. he world i olFences nee com- due e«B- hc mind, provoca- tluct that ?his fear, I sense of vill admit se, when Lhe eavise ; and to •le of the uing of a ■Vesleyan ' Facts." the peo- the influ- le in the e spiritu- iiiend the to elFect, ilication : re of len- I »ty than might otherwise be consistent. Men who havt «o egiegiously erred in malterx in whirh they conceived • rror to be impossible, are not men of ordinary stamp, and are therefore not to he measured by an ordinary rule. With this fact before us, we take up his pamphlet to place before the community, to whom he has appealed, such observations as will serve to disabuse their minds of any false impressions it may have induced. Mr.H's. ''Statement of ^Facts'' \^ 6e6\ca\ed Ho tht honest and pious portion of the Wesleyan Methodists in the Lower Province.'' The mvidiou^ness of this mode of address might possibly excite soroe unplea!.ant feel- ings where a co-npetent knowledge of the dedicator is not posses^.ed ; but for the quieting of such minds I observe, the words show an improvement in R. H's. mind of late towards Wesleyan Methodists ; not very long ago it might be doubted whether he thought he had left any "honest and pious" Wesleyans behind him; but that he had gleaned them al! out of our Church, and had safelv de- posited them in the Alillerite Advent Association, while those whom he had left behind him were such as must be consigned to the "fiery indignation, which should de- vour the adversaries." That he now acknowledges there are some "honest and pious Wesleyan Methodists" is an homage to truth, we fear he has not always been willing to nraake ; certainly not when saying "The Methodist Church, instead of being the Bride of Christ, was Baby- !on," and therefore set up the cry—" 'Come out of her my people. Come out of her.' " He further remarks, "It is not without reluctance that I permit these pages to pass before the public eye, not that I have the least misgiving as to their correctness, for I know whereof I ailirm ; but becau.^e I wish to live psaeeably with a!! men." Thn Ac may have felt sorae 6 reluctance in publishing liisi ''pngei^' roar be cunceivcil, and that he has alluwed that reluctance to he nveirome, and e«pecial!jr at the pariicular s^easiion of the year in which they are circulaleJ, canoot fail to supply matter for rery grave reflection. There are those who will strongly siuspect that their appearance at this conjunrture la not without reference to the meetings which at thii particular period are annually held for Missionary pur- poses ; nor will they fail to perceive a coincidence there- in with attempts of a sitnilar^character, from others ef the •ame fraternity, towards such exertions. If the cause of Missions is the cause of God — and who will say it ii not? — then ar« such attempts to be viewed with fearful associations ! In order to the methwdical treatment of R. H's. al- ledged "Statement of Facts," and therefore to a clearer exp(5sition of their character, we will treat them sepa- rately and consecutively. The first in order is the claim he advances against the District Meeting, and Missionary Committee in Lomion, for the balance he contends is due hiai for three fjuar- tersof a year's salary. ThesumisXGG 6 1. To with- hold frosj another his just demand, is neither honest ■or christian ; and "is a crime to be punished by the Judges." No man or body o( men can do this and be innocent. Tlie poiat to be debated in the present in- stance, however, is, is the demand a just one ? This he avers; — this we — the District Meeting, and Missionary Committee — deny. That Mr., Hutchinson retained the title and position of a Wesleyan Missionary up to the expiration of the third quarter of the year 184-2, I have no disposition to deny ; but when this is said, all is not laid that bears dis- tinctly upon his case. I i I Mr. II. received three years education in the Collegi- ate Inslitutian of uur ho^ly previou* tw HIm leaviiijf Ktig- land for hi> Mishoii to CaiiriHa. After thiw he received an outfit of floihirifr, booksi, kc, t« more fully fit him for his work. Then his passajje was paid ami hf f«rv\ arded to Quebec, the place where t\c was to ooinrn.'nre liic Mission Work, without a farthing's expense to himself. All thid, the reader inu,st be awaie, involved on ihe Com- mittee, a very e#>ii»iderable expense. Let us now at- tempt an estimate of this expense : To three years' education in one of the first Seminaries for the obj( cU in England, .1'2U per year, jL'«o Board and lodging during that period, Jt'35 per year, Ju5 Allowance for elolhin-, kc, X'4 per qr., or £16 per year, 48 To outfit of Clothes, Books, and passage,* 85 Aggregate, £-2^j>i o o The sum thus given, the reader will bear in mind, la Sterling, and wouM make about £332 Currency. Mr. H. knows full well, as the simplest peram can easily conceive, that no sach sum of money and atteniion would have been bestowed by the xMi^sionary Comroil- tee upon him, or upon any man, for a service of little better than five years, which was about all he rendered them, even were he then to merely retire from the work ; but much less so, if at the end of !?uch a term of service he were to be f»un«l sliding and abetting the most active opponents, and greatest huu.an injurers ef their Mission its agents have had to contend against for years. What then is the conclusion to which any impartial person, I will not say "honest and pious Wesleyan Methodist"— * I have not the means at this moment of giving the precise sum of Mr. H's. outfit and passage, hut in the Rcp-rt for 1839, I see the ouUil, kf. of Mr. Brirr;;tt for New Brunswick costs X86 10 0, and that of i\lr. Marshall tor Newfoundland was Jf85 7 2, and there u reason to believe that Mr. IPs. was fully equal to either of these. % 8 willcometo? Why, that when Mr. H. changed his views on scrip)tura! doctrines, and fouiKl he could no lon- ger serve the Wesleyan Methodist Church, instead of preferring any claim against the Coimnittee, he would, in "a righteous, manly way," at once liave written them, apprising them of the fad, and promi:ts of the Mission of this District. The income, both for the Cirnjits and Foreign Missions, were for the year 1843 considerably less than the preceding year, and continued so for several succeeding vears; so that several hundred pounds were lest to the Missicm mainly through his instrumen- tality.* One of the results of Mr. H's. conduct ren- dered it necessary that the District Meeting should apply to the Missionary Committee for an enlargement of their grant, as the original aniouni was far from meeting their regular claims. What a beautiful instance of propriety would have been witnessed had they inserted Mr. H's. alleged claim with theirs! The proposition would have been as senseless and j)repo.Merous as is Mr. H'd. in his own behalf. That several of the Brethren may have done as Mr. H. said they did, express a lively interest in his case, and a willingness to urge his supposed claim, 1 am quite ready to believe; but that they could fail to see the en- tire invalidity of the claim when it came to be fully con- Bidered, is not t*» be imagined. Hence arises the suppo- * In the years of 1842-3, the year of R. H.'s defection, the St. Armatul's Circuit, to which he wa.s uppointctl, sho^ved a dcliciciicy in its Circuit iiicninc. inileperulciit of li- 't for (orei he says \)\-. AIcKt iiKnie at the Di.Mrict Mreiitig of 1S39, vi/., "liwit he li;iil a privatt' coiiscieiice ami an ollicial one." Il ilie woulf^ were iiseil, ahhoiigh I do not rerol- lert th.\'ii,ihey imisI have ht'eii in Mune piavful sally witfe uiiich tSie leuMiin of a 1), strict Mt?etiri}>'s business is soineiiaiee; relieved. Ttiat he coiiUl d.-Mie to he nnder- Btood seriously woiiltl ar^iie an iiiihiciiiiv v\hich none who knew hitn will aiimit. Believing that the apprehension of llx^ "farts" now given Will reelaidi ihe mind of the readei fVoni anv im- presNions iihfavorahle to the Methodi-i i\!Miisiers of this di.-tricl, and ol ilie Missionary Coinivniiie in Lfmdon, e.-|iecia|ly on the sdl.jeci of 'vmy pearnimy ri'ff/it,''^ I pr«)<-ei\i to consider aiw.ihrr topic m tlio ^\Bn'ef state- ment of fads, bij R. Hutchinson, M. D., late Wesley- an Jlissionary/' '•I iiave been knowingly and vvantonK- misrepresented in the matter" (Ins ••pecnniary right") "and the public ehaiiiefuiiy deceived. 1 will jzive one specinsen : said the R V. J. Borland, at a Missionary meetino in Mel- bf»unif, and repeated the same in substance elsewhere, «i\ihleri>n) is D.'vilism, from old Miller down to Hutch- inson ; and Hmchin^on has proveil him-e!l' to be a knai^e, in claidtingabom ^^:m) for a i)artof a v ear, .iiiring which he ..as tearing Meihodi.sm in pieces. ' &..•. &c. 'Hear, hear, hear.' " Tins is a grave cause lor reflection, truly. Did -Mile Rev. J. Borland" call '•Mdiensm, Devilism, from old Miller down to Hutchinson ?" Thai "the Rev. J. Borland" called Millerism, Devilism," he has no dis-' position to deny ; and what is even rnore— he has nt) de- sire t« .eiract what he then sskI. But k-i his own ver- lion be given, for that is the oniv one he feeU beund to de- 11 fend. Ii ia as fullowii : "Some hnve whispered it in tbe corner, but I proclaim it from the house-iop, and you may tell it from Miller down to Hutchinson that I i>'dy—J\iil- lerism is Devilism.^^ Now this is what "the Rev. J. Borland" did say, and what "the Kev. J. Borland" yet believed. But what is Millerism ? "Do not the Millerite preach- cr& preach the fall of Man— the atonement by Christ- repentance, salvation by faith, and the regenerating in- fluences of the Holy Spirit ]" They do, now, I believe, mere than they were wont to do. But these are not what constitute Millerism. Neither is it the doctrines of the Resurrection, tbe personal appearance of Christ, and Judgment ot' the world at the last day, as seme fool- ishly im;i>5ine. These doctrines were held, and faithful- ly and fully preached before Milleritim was a conception. They are «o still, separate from, and independent of, Millerism. These are not Millerism. Do you repeat the question, "What ia Millerism 1" 1 wdl tell you. It was to believe that the world would end in April, 1843, on pain of eternal damnation ! Then, when April had passed, it was to believe, under similar poins and penal- ties, that the world would end in October of the same year. Do you say "you never heard that before ?"— Don't you recollect that the cry was— "M« ivise shall w«.c/e/-67Ja;2c/"— understand that the world would then end— and that because you, and others, did not so un- derstand the Scriptures, were you not handed over "to the uncovenanled merries of God "?" Did not your wise friends go about jiiai before these periods to take leave of you, and «( others not of their views, believing that be- tween you and them there would be an eternal separa- tion? Well, then, you see f have not overstepped the bounds of truth. Again, Milkristu is now to belie^t 12 that the worlJ will eod by next May or June. Mr. Miller was heard to say at a camp meeting held at Clar- enceville in the summer of 1848: "The laith he had that the world would end in 184*3, was not lobe compared with the faith he had that the wurld would end by 1850." On this platform, that the world's course would soon be run, many oiher things have been reared,some of transient existence, but others of a more enduring character. Of the former were struggling — revelations — discerning of spirits, &,c. &.C. Of the latter, a determined and secta- rian exclusivism — fierce denunciations of other nortions ol the church of God — audacious assumptions of being right, although so often proved to be wrong — and untir- ing opposition to what are properly denominated mis- sionary operations. To this, our latter characteristic of Millerism, the Advent Herald of July 29tli, 1848, ob- jects, and calls it "a tissue of misrepresentation as far as Mr. Miller and his followers are concerned." I happen to be possessed of documents which I think will bear me out (and a little more) in this very statement. The intelligent reader shall have a specimen or two. "Their spiritual reign and conversion of the world has been their hobby, and they hug to the foolish idea of converting the world to their dogmas and faith, by means of money and sectarian missionaries. As well may they undertake to dip the ocean dry with a firetnan's bucket, as to convert the world with their sectarian notions and party creeds. How can men be so ignorant as not to see, that every convert only makes the rest worse,'' [then of course bet- ter make none at all,] '^and every year divisions and sub- divisions i no ease:' -Kin gdovi of God, by Wm. Mil- ler, p. -Zi. It i,s quite obvious that were this paragraph to have its I'ul! ellect, every Missionary stream would be dried up, and eveiy Missionary ellbit would cease. It 13 makes nothing to his case that he objects to the idea of the ullimale conversion of the world, or, that he does not approve of the mode on which Christian Missions are conducted. He ought to propose a better ere he sought to remove the present, and to know that saving sinners is the duty of the Church whether it believes the end of the world nigh or afar olf. But what a wholesale de- nunciation does the paragraph utter against every Mis- sionary Society in existence ! It is extremely unpleas- ant t« the writer to be obliged thus to comment upon the writings of a man recently called to his account, and nothing but an imperative sense of duty could compel him. The next quotation is iVom the Advent Herald, July 8, 1848. It is an extract iVonn a Conferential Address of the Millerite Adventist Preachers to their people, and is signed ("on behalf of the Conference'") «J. Litch, Pre- sident." "0. R. Fassett, Secretary." ^We cannot but regard this expectation as the ^strong delusion' by which the professedly Christian World will be led to dream of peace and safety, till sudden destruction comes upon upon them, and they shall not escape. It will be with them as it was ivith the Jews of old, who made their boast of the law, and compassed sea and land to make a proselyte, only to make that proselyte two-fold more a child of hell than before— when they made their scrip- tares the basis of a worldly, and of course popular hope. They knew not the plainest promises given to their fath- <.xs, nor the power of God that was pledged to fulfil them, but were left to cavil and wrest these promises to their own destruction.'^'' The reader is requested to remember, that this last quotation ii not from the viva voce declamation of some 14 hair-brained ranter, who might not be supposed to un- derstand the iraport of every expression he uied. It is the (or certainly should be) calmly considered, and duly weighed, document of a deliberative body of men — of prof^isedly Christian Ministers — and who are to be sup- posed as desiring every sentiment and word ef the docu- nient to be taken at their grammatical value. That ^^t/ie professedly Christian World^'' (the Miller- ite portion of it of course are excepted) should be under a ^^ delusion'''' — a ^^delusion^^ so ^'strong^^ — as to involve their "sudden'''' and complete "destruction^'''' ia^a suppo- lition net to be farmed on slight grounds. But the reader will perceive it is not a "strong delusion'''' that is spoken of, but '"THE strong delusion;''^ he will therefore be led to enquire — "to what does the definite, article refer?" — He will sec by looking to 2d Thes., 2:11, 12. "And tor this cause (because they received net the love of the truth, that they might be saved,) God shall send them f'trong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they ul! mieht be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Now we see that the ex- pesiiors of the Millerite faith— the examples of the Miller- ite Church,— the Conference of the Millerite Preacher;-, believe, or at least say they do— that the whole "profes- sedlv Christian World" who entertain the idea of the ul- tiraate reign of righteousness upon the earth, by the in- strumentality of the Gospel, are such a set of hardened wretches that God has given them over (which He nev- f>r does but in extreme cases) to "believe a lie," and to be "damned:" — or, what is equivalent to this in their dojy, that the mere belief of the ultimate and universal spread of righteousness anterior to the judgment of the f^reat dar, and the consequent laboring for such an ob- 15 ject, is the greatest violation of truth and principle that man can he guilty ot'. The reader, it might be, was startled when I told him that amongst the characteristics of Millerism, were, "fierce denunciatiens of other por- tions of the Cliurch of GoJ — audacioua assumptions ©t" being right," SwC. &.e. Now he may start, — but it mus>t be at the correctness of the picture I have sketched, and the hideousness of the object presented. In the extract on which I am commenting we are vir- tually told that all our Missionary efibrts are only making -■bad, worse'" — that we make our "proselytes two-fold more the children of hell than before." Would any sensible, judicious man, seeing reason for believing this, in any way countenance Missionary efforts? Certainly not. lie must do all in his power to oppose them, rath- er. That such an opposition is not found throughout the length and breadth of the land is not owing to any want of zeal in Messrs. Litch, Fassett, Hutchinson, &c., ^c. No; but to the better sense of the community a- inongst whom w^e dwell. No marvel, however, that one of tlieir foul-mouthed ranting subordinates, while holding f«rth to a congregation in Hallcy, should exclaim, "I would rather give'five shillings a poor man to buy a fat Turkey and then help him to eat it, than give it to For- eign Missions. 3> Does the reader now marvel that "the Rev. .J. Bor- land" called ^^. Millerism, Devilism.'^' Oh, no! He only wonders that %o many people otherwise intelligent should give it any countenance and support. It supplies no valid argument to cover ©r extenuate their opposition that the world will not b3 converted, for no man that rightly apprehends the Church's responsibility but will fice that whatever may be the ultimate fate of the world, 16 il is bound lo exert itself to the utmost to rescue all it can tVonfi tlit eternal burnings. Th:.i Mi^■.il,nary Socic^ ties are doing so, vvlietlier of the Mi^ihodist, Bi.ptist, C«n- g-egationalist, Episcopalian, or Moravian Churches, will only he questioned by those who are manifp.sily incom- petent to form a right judgment in the case: and there- Ibrc to oppose them in their sacred calling j* not BibU- M/«,— but Devimsm. The extract which R. H. adduces iVom my Plain Ad- dress, but which he attempts not to answer, is introduced here as pertinent and admonitory. "At the instance of your mistaken lender, Miller, you not only united in 3 crusade against the Churches throiigh- out the land, but against the brightest ornament of these Churches—their Missionary Institniions. These you openly ridiculed, as you endeavored to turn from them the stream of Christian Philanthropy. If therefore eve- ry Missionary scheme is not blasted,— if every Mission- ary in a foreign land is not left to pine in want and con- sequent suffering,— if the heathen are not left to wander on in darkness, ami perish in their abominations and hopeless wretchedness, the reason is to be found not in you, but in Hino, who, to all your insensate ravings and efforts, said, 'Thus far shalt thou ceme and no further.' " "But you are represented as saying Mr. Hutchinson is 'a knave, in claiming about 300 dollars for a part of a year, during which he was tearing Methodism to pieces, when a Methodist Preacher's salary is only ilSO a year.' Did you say this?" Tifiat I ever said in the sense here intended, or upon the occasion alluded to, that a Metho- dist Preacher's salary was only £30 a year, is distinctly and ridir,ulously false! And that 11. H. can suppose that I said so is only to be accounted for on the same i scne all i( ly Socio- itist, C»n- flies, will iy iiicom- nd fliere- lot Bible.- ^!ain Ad- itrodiiced liiler, you I through- of ibese liese you om them ?rore eve- Mission- and c*n- wander ions and id not in viiigs and iirther.' "' utchinson part o^ a o pieces, 3 a year.' nse here 3 Meth©- dislinctly suppose he same 17 princip!. a, several „,l,er rcm»rkaWe (bcUof hi, hi^iorv. I • II. fully know. Uial I o,„|d „„, .,„,e „„j„ ,„,,^-^ ^ aic-menl, „,„• couM my Minisierial Brcilirc, have ca- ^lorsed „, a. he. says .hey ,iid, „i,|,„u, , ,,; ^ ^cves,„U,c charge .fidio,oy,„„<,g„c,y, or hoU,;a„d addrc..:ed. U no. I!. H. a>varc, .„d are not Iho° Mem- 'M-. 01 our ChLT.he, a,varc., unlss. Ihev bo mere chil- J.OI., l.al our country Circuit rai.e ,„or« than XSO an- I nnally for ihe support of their I'r.acher., ? And vet ihev ' ••-'»J.'.a..heydonot support their MiniiiT I < r,c,al ,„emi,cr. of cur Church in Melbourne know that •I"-' C.rcu.t ra.sed about XTO annu.liv, and thai vet it u a. net enongh to meet the lawful demand, of theiJ re,- -n I.n,.tc,s. Thee who were present will rccollec, .")J hose who ca,r.ed E. H. hi. information e.nnor, o ought no, to, forge,, that I wa, arguing i„ „,„ „,j ,,, agamst t;,e unfounded slanJn. of the Advent Herald'. conlrere tnMovaScctia, who.e pamphlet, with a co.- ,„,en ary re-erenee to the author, wa, republished in il'e Herald ,n iS16. R. H., in inlrod„ci„g a„ extr.et .nto h,s pamphlet from this ,an,e author, tells hi, readers |t .s -a lucd and fair statement of facts." On the sub- jec of the extract, and the object of our il. D. i„ re-in- •roduc,n.:,,Uhall dwell more a. large presently. I „,, now „„t,cc, r,owever, Iha, that veracious writer labors Xo .how that while the Methodist Ministers of N„va Sotia .n .,>e rece.p, ol nearly XlOO annually. Uy object and gures , e„ used were to show that an overag „f „, I-ore,gn M,ss,on Monies, toge.ner with what w^s rais d on the Circuits, did not amount to ^100 to each Mi. I ».onary instead of the round .um of nearly X 100. This I 18 Inrnishes another evidence that I ceuld not have ppoken of X'30 as the amount of a Methodist Preacher's salary, and therefore did not, as R. H. intimates, violate the principles of "heathen honetty." Mr. H. says that on his return to Canada ho called unon me, but'thal I was not at home. He did call, but why he did not on the Saturday, when there was a strong probability that I should be at home, butoa the Tuesday when it was very unlikely I should be so, jemaina yet to be explained. But if anxious te obtain information from myself upon the subject, why did he not introduce it when he called upon me at my house in this place .luring the summer of 184-8 1 These queries deserve an answer from a man who appears to have i)een anxious to have obtained correct information upon the points in- volved. He says he introduced the subject of the Preach- er's salary being but £30, to Mrs. Borland. I say he did not! He spoke to Mrs. B. about his own claim, and on other matters, but on that of a X30 allowance, as he says he did, I repeat \l—he did not ! ! Mrs. B. says he did not, a person who was present at the time, and has a distinct recollection of what then transpired— 33ys he did not; and another who was then in a room adjoining to the one in which they were conversing, and who overheard most of their conversation, heard not a word upon the subject. Does the reader, after a solemn pause, demand, '-what object could Mr. H. have in ma- king such an assertion ?" I will tell him, although I do not pretend to have studied witchcraft. It furnishes hira, .;ven as his Nova Scotia Brother, with a text to start from ; with a pretest for calling up a subject out of which he hopes to manufacture capital ; that of a Methodist Minisler'i salary. He apprehends that strong prejudice m' 19 c ppoken ■'« salary, olale the lio called call, but IS a strong ■ Tueiilay iia'ma yet formation introduce ihis place eserve an \ anxious points in- 10 Preach- I say he vn claim J ilUnvance, Mrs. B. t the time, inspired — in a loom ;rsing, and eard not a r a solemn avc in ma- loiigh I do liahes hira, xt to start U of which Methodist ; prejudice exists in the country against what mny bo supposed to b« large salaries ; and that by exhibiting one of the largest in the district, he might draw oil' from our intcreyts, those who may be influenced by considerations of pounds', shillings,' and pence. Had Mr. H. a really honest in- tention in his "Statement" of a Methodist Minihter's salary, he would have given it in its dilltMcnt periods.— lU would have said that "that of a single man is M2, or,>^-218 a year, and which was all Mr. Borland had dur- ing the four years of his Ministerial probation, although he then had a wife and family." He might then have added, "but as his family increased, and he entered up- on the full allowances of a Methodist Minister, he then received according t» the Melhodibtic rule." He could have said "that the almost invariable rule is that all are kept upon a single man's allowances during the iirst four years of their ministry, and as long afterwards as they continue single; and that our allowances are graduated not according to talent, or even success in our ministry, butstrictly in accordance with our wants; so that although a minister with a large family, needing, receives consid- erable — yet as soon as bia family is reduced, his allow- ances fall also." Thus the "honest and pious" would see that a Methodist Minister's allowances are graduated by the strictest considerations of his real comforts, and necessities, and that economy which is imperatively de- manded in appropriating monies consecrated to the ser- vice of religion. The subject of a Wesleyan Methodist preacher's sal- ary can scarcely be judged of accurately, without taking the following considerations into account. There are no Ministers in the country, of any denomination, who de- vote so much of their time to the object of their mission, 20 •exclusively, n. ihcy ilo. They g.ve, as they are rciUii- ed, t/ie whole of t/mr time to iIm object. Almost eve- ry other iMiniiter in tho country cultivates a farm, teacii- cj a school, 01 aitcmJ.i to some nienns hy which hi« cir- cumstance, are improved ; notBo theWc«levan Mission- ary, to any and all of .urh waya he is precluded, s„ that ^1 he oLiaif,.i not a comrorlahlc su^lcnance from hi.s rcg- iilar and disciplinary .alary, ho has it not at all. Anoth- er peculiarity not to he loat sight cf, and of which our church derives the benefit, is our itinerant characteristic. I his necessarily entails addiiional expense, for althouoh ihe travelling expenses arc supposed to be met, and the Mission IIoBses \o be furnished, (which i. far from bcin- th« case generally and ade(,uately) yet every one must be awar« that many incidental expenses ari.e out of this one circumstance, which must he ir.et, and only eut ul the p.eacher's own .alary. Then take into the account that his salary 1„ not statedly and annually the same as ^^ that of others. If his family decreases^ his salary de- creases. If his family is taken away bv death, or age .Sjc, then ho cea rs tu receive anythingon their account! His salary, in comparison with that ©f other mini&ter?, may this year be large ; in a year or two, by tho same rule, it may be small. The.e, and other particulars that Height be enumerated, show that a Wcsleyan Mi.siona- rys salary .hould not be judged of in nM instances by what is received by ministers of any other de,n.mi;iatiori, but simply, and entirely, upon its own merits. a might assist the cause of truth and piety, though doubtles., not the one R. H. at present contemplates,' nad he informed \v, readers that in the cities of Mon- treal and Quebec ie lay member, of our church have -ii these matters passing through their hands, and that 21 same I ! they pay the ministers their lalary, ik'm l>y item, with larger amouMls for rent, fuel, hoard, &,c. than are claim- ed in the country. And further, that the ministers in the cou.itry circuits would rejoice could our ollicial rncm- bers in the country he induced to act in a similar way. Further, the reader may he informed, that the financial accounts, as well as the reports of the npirituul state of the work, go home from each circuit to the Missionary Committee in London — which CDiumiitce is conipwvsed of eciual nnmhers of lay gentlemen and ministers. These cUsely scrutmi/.e each and every account, and fail not to find out anything that thould not he allowed. R. H. cauld have given this information as well as J. B. The distinct understanding is given to each Weslcyan Missionary, upon his entering his work, that souUsaving i» his one and only business. That he must not enjinso in any secular pursuits, nor in any way divert his mind from the one and great object of his calling, and that while he thus ads, the Committee will endeavor to meet his reasonable wants, as the Church [)lacestlie means in their hands. The allowance is lair and liberal, and therefore just such as a minister of religion ought to pos- sess if he is to keep his mind free from pecuniary anxi- eties, and at the same time furnish his children with .t suitable education, his family with tfie necessaries of life, and himself with a library and other means essen- tial to bis high vocation. This is fully apprehended bv the intelligent and influential of gur Church, who \Yill net fail therefore, of securing to us a suitable support. *'But did you really use so harsh a term as ^ knave' towards Mr. Hutchinson?" To tall a man a "knave," is hard indeed, and illegal withal. Yet harsh expres- sions are not always to be condemned, nor even the use of ihem. Our Lord called the scribes and pharisees, "Hypocrites" — "a generation of vijjers," &c. St. Paul oBce publicly called a man "a child of the devil" — an enemy of all righteousness" — and told him that he was "full of alt suhtilty, and all mischief." These were harsh eayings truly, so that the mere circumstance of us- ing a harsh saying i:i not condemnable. Peculiar times and circumstances call for peculiar treatment. The facts of the case aie these. The editor of the Advent Herald published the pamphlet from the Nova Scotian already referred to, by which the ministers «f that district were held up before the world as deceiver*, and altogether not a shade better than pick-pockets; while the Missionary Comfnittee were represented as guilty accessories. The redoubtable editor of the Her- ald, after lauding the writer of the pamphlet (little knovt'- ing that \u< friend's utter worthlessness was his only pro- tection from a criminal prosecution) had the elVrontery in ask the "Rev. J. Borland" if a similar course was pur- sued in Canada ! In other words, he appeared satisfied that the Nova Scotia Methodist Ministers were rogues, because his friend had said so — and now he would iiko to know from one of the interested parties themselves, if they of Canada were as great rogues as ihey of Nova Scoiia ! ! And, as if the piece was not BuHiciently spi- red, wanted to know if Mr. Hutchinson had yet been paid, &c. Of course no answer was given by me tu «uch a communication. Mr. H. thinks I ought to have given it "an honest reply," and yet in all probability we should have widely dillered as to what that "honest reply" should have been. Between my judgment upon that point and that of my intelligent readers, I flatter myself th«re ^vill not be found so great a discrepancy. t 23 pbarisecs. St. Paul evil" — an at be was ese were nee ot'us- iliar times tor of the the Nova inisters of deceivers, -pockets : sented as the Her- lle know- only pro- rontery to was piir- 1 satisfied e rogues, ►'oiild like iselves, it" of Nova ently spi- yet been bv me tu it to have ibilitv we :st reply" hat poini self there i That I was excited in the delivery o( that address, i ana without the shadow of a t^mptatioft to deny. 1 would be ashamed of my heart could it have been calm and unruilled upon such an occasion. I aspire to no sucli abstraction*. I am no believer in an apathetic phi- losophy or religion. 1 was excited, and could I then have scattered Millerism, foul mouthed, slandering Mil- leri«m, to the winds of heaven, I assure the reader not a speck of it would now be visible to mark its existence. It was then I referred to Mr. II. and his claims (I need not to tell the reader that I had neither gloves nor mit*- tens on my hands at the time.) My reference to Mr. H. was under the cover of a figure, put in such a way as we sometimes say — "Why, if the cap fits you, wear it." There seems to have existed on the part of R. H. or liis iViends, a disposition to make such an appropriation, and all that I can say — ®r will say, is — "// the cap fits — tvhjf, iimir it.^^ The next topic of the "late Wesleyan Missionary's" pamphlet is his trial and resignation. On this I shall be- stow but a passing notice. The case presented but lit- tle real dilHculty. The principle propounded by the Rev. j3. Slight as their rule of procedure to the meeting, was sulTiciently obvious to claim instant attention ; and what- ever ©pinion may be formed as to the special importance of the subject nnore particulaily discussed, there can be ijut one judgnsent as to wbnt such a meeting must have done with a man who distinctly assured it, as did Mr. H. "that he iiad received an assurance from the Lord, in ansvyer to prayer, that the world would end in ]84'3, and therefore he could not but preacli it." This state- ment is yiven en the authority of one of the members ©f the meeting, and in justice to their proceedings and ver- m 24 diet. Whelher R. H. has, or has not, regretted his act of resignation, is not material for my argument. Manv, I have no doubt, who can now looii back upon his course will not think it any connmendation of his judgment that he has not. There are some who think he has regretted, and that bitterly, and they form their judgment from his own expressions. But be this as it may, he says he has not "regrette! the step," but "views the whole as tho leadings of a wise and gracious Providence." This, considering his circumstances, I call an astounding as- .rertion! but ^remembering from whence it comes, I lei it pass without further comment. The act of dragging those forward in his pamphlet who were, to some extent, mingled in the affairs of that period, i« what I shall scarcely trust myself to designate, particularly that of publishing a pzya^e and confidential letter. No object save that of a nialevolent gratifica- tion is here apparent. That men may difler in opinion upon various, and even important, matters, h nothing wonderful ; and that the persons he has named differed to some extent from their brethren, and from the stan- dards of our church, is not denied. But that they should retrace their steps, and not consummate a train of un- sustained conjecture by a leap like R. H.'s, is the bur- den of their offence, and the obvious reason of the pres- ent exposure. The next subject which our M. D. treats is one to which we have already made allusion, but to which we shall now devote more particular attention. It relates to Foreign Missions and the monies raised for their support. Mr. H. contends that the monies we raise for missions are not so appropriated : that we plead for the heathen, but that no heathen are benefitted by the monies thus pi- 25 led his act t. Many, his course gment that ! regretted, )t from his ays he han ole as the ?." This, mding as- }mes, I let pamphlet irs of that designate, mfidential gratitlca- n opinion is nothing ^d differed the Stan- ley should lin of un- :> the bur- the pres- is one to which we ; relates to r support. r missions heathen, 2sthus pi- ously given by the members of our own, and other chris- tian churches. His own words are as follow! : "True, ihe people really think they (]o something for the 'Mission cause ;' but 1 can assure ihem, thevdonot, —that is in the sense they understand the Mission cause, and in the sense Mr. B. wishes to be understood in the ^bove extracts ; for I am bold to say, and I speak that which I do know, that 'since' the first introduction of Wcsleyan Methodism into Canada, not one cent has gone to support the Gospel among the 'heathen,' from the < whole body' of Methodists in the ' Lower Province.' Every fraction of Mission money raised in Loicer Can- ada is expended in Lower Canada.^^ The wording and pointing of the extract is Putlicient- ly plain to speak for itself. Suppose that JMr. H. had in addition to the words— «In the sense Mr. B. wishes to b© understood in the above extracts"— had added— "and every one who wishes to be understood »© is ' a knave.^ " "Would he not have said as harsh a thing against "Mr. B," as ''Mr. B." is reported lo have said of R. H. 1 It does not want the additional words for the sense—it is sutficiently apparent. "But," you retort, '^H the cap fits— why, wear it." But it does not fit, which fact I fiatter myself to make apparent. I have another and still more serious (luestion tc propose : Would anv per- son receiving the impression R. H. evidently designs to communicate, give another cent to our Foreign Mission cause? Certainly net, tliey could not be expected to give anything to support a system o( Roguery and Fraud, which is the very light in which R. H. wishes it to he viewed. I have a, question or two to propose to "R. Hutchinson, M. D. late Wesleyan Missionary," under ibis head. Are things, in the respect of which you 26 complain, any diflerent now from what they were when you were a "Wesleyan Missionary ?" If not, hew is it tliat sucli a course of deception and roguery as you would have your readers to suppose exists amongst us, never troubled your conscience while with ml How is it, I again ask, that since you have emerged into so much light and purity as now envelops you, you have not deeply grieved and loudly wailed because of your form- er acts of roguery and hypocrisy 1 Alas ! poor Rich- ard ! your case is a hard one ! 1 am afraid these ques- tions may noi sit easy upon your conscience, but you are now an M. D. and will doubtless see the importance of an aperient, or an emetic. If I might not be too pre- sumptuous, in tendering advice to an M. D. upon such a mauer, I would certainly advise an emetic. An emetic, my dear Richard, is your only chance. Defamatory, as is the language ; and atrocious, as is the design of R. H. and his kindred spirits concerning our Foreign Mission work, one is induced to allow them 'M-eat latitude considering their infirmities. So extraor- dinary a people are these Millerite Adventisls that they ;ire ever seeing what nobody else sees, or even dreams r)f : while, what is obvious to the most simple, they fail \o perceive at all. The subject to which R. H. has drawn our attention, and which he has endeavored to mystify, is so plain that 1 fear not to give a correct idea of it to any unprejudiced person. And even were my 'ask a dilTicult one,I think the following fact would free us from any suspicion of pursuing so nefarious a course as that ascribed to us by Mr. H. In the cities of Mon- treal and Quebec we have large and influential church- es. Our members are composed cf some of the most intelHi'ent, upright and business-like men that are founA iMaiiiiiiiiailliMMMil e when i©w is il u would s, never ' is il, I much ave not ur form- ir Rich- se ques- t you are 'lance of too pre- ^on such Ic. A II )us, as is )ncei'ning low them t extraor- that they n dreams they fail . H. has avored to rrcct idea were my vovild free i a courise 1 of Mon- il church- tbe most are found 27 in those cilic.*. In each of these places is a Committee of lav gentlemen, with their re-opeciive ministers, who annually collect the auhscriptions mnde for our Foreign Missions— ihrough wlw.c hands ihey past-, and by whom is perfectly known their mode of approprialion. The sums tliey raise annually, over and above paying every fracticn of their own ministers salary, putting the a- mounts from each city together, is from four to six hun- dred pounds ! Again, as many of thern as subscribe over £\ annually, receive a copy of the parent socie- frs large report, in which their contributions, with those from every other district, foreign or domestic, are inser- ted ; and every farthiugof the aggregate sums acknowl- edged, together with the several appropriations and dis- bursements annually made by the Missionary Committee in London. The reader will scarcely think, however cunning and shrewd he may suppose Methodist Ministers to be, that they could dupe such a class of men as those to whom I irave referred. Nay, verily, and T will give him another reason : They have heads with an usual amount of brains \hore\n— they are not Millerites — and have consciences, withal. The string upon which R. H. harps, and upon which he plavs a tune very much to the satisfaction of his brother Noodles^, is, that our Foreign Mission monies are iiathered expressly and exclusively for the "heathen." Now this R. H. and almost every stupid admirer of his pamphlet knoics is untrue. Our district report:^, annu- allv published, and widely circulated, speak cf missions to Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, the West Indies, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick, Eastern and Western Canada— and nobody dreams 28 oi the iahabitants ol' these places being heathen. Again and again, do we remind our audiences, at our onniver- lifary meetings, that a powerful motive to their constant and increasing eiiorts for foreign missions, is found in the benelits they themselves have received, and are vet re- ceiving from the same. It is not a little striking, and illustrative of (he saniiv ol our M. D., that what he appears to view as an oflence, reasonable beings are apt to regard as a c»mmendaiion, viz. thai our Missionary Committee assist us in carryini^ out our mission in this district, sometimes with an equal amount, but oftentimes with more than we actually raise for foreign mission objects throughout the district, inclu- ding the sums raised in Montreal and Quebec. A huge offence with a Millerile ; but to an intelligent christian— to one who knows the condition oi: the country, and the importance to it of our mission now for many years it is seen with very dillierent feelings. A principlewhicli our missionaries everywhere incul- cate is, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America,— that every Church is bound if it can, to support its own Ministry; and in addition, to do what in it lies to send the gespei beyond them. Is this wrong ? They do not wa;t until a church meets all its own expensee, to incul- cate a missionary spirit and conduct. A missionary spir- it they consider essential to a christian spirit— therefore they assiduously cultivate it. They have yet to learn that it is wrong to inculcate this spirit and practice in places where the necessities of the people may be even greater than their charities. Or, that because the assis- tance a people receive may be greater than they can ren- der to others—therefore they should not render that as- mm MiiaMH 29 •Agnin bislance. This may he Millerilo logic, but the reader knows full well it is not Cbristian logic. The case is further explained as follows: in Albany, South Africa, the district raised, in 184-7, for Foreign Missionary purposes, (the sums are in ster- ling) £\095 13 ; but as in (hat district there are 24 Missionaries, 2G Catechists, and 27 salaried School Teachers, these with other and incidental expense?, cost the Society i;il2i)l. 1 8. Antigua raised JC1017 14 3, uut its expenses were £2329 15 7. Jamaica laised £1118144. Its expenses, £3693 12 8. Consequently HO necessity existed in these places for the transmis- sion to London of the sums they raised ; but rather for drawing in addition,over and above the amounts granted, to their respective districts. Thus with Eastern Canada, The sum allowed to this district is £900 Sterlint^, or £1095 Currency. The sums raised in the country for the parent fund has seldom equalled this:— Therefore, no necessity exists for remitting the sum, but rather of drawing for the balance. But who does not see that the monies raised by us, and accounted for by the parent society, and printed in their Annual Report, are strictly and truly Foreign Mission monies? And is it not seen with equal ease that you cannot turn away any stream from the great reservoir— the parent Treasury— without nllecting that reservoir to a corresponding extent ? To ihat parent fund wo have shown R. H. to be lar^'elv in- Jebled ; and now, behold ! by smiting and mnimingt/te parent would he pay his debt ! in missionary addresses at our several Anniversaries considerable stress is laid upon the condition of the hea- then ; this is tdonc because their condition is truly pitia- ble : because we have missions amongst them : and be- 30 %' '.■au::e while the Missionary Coinmillcc is lahourlng to c~ conoiiiise and restrict its means l these, Kueh as our Colo- nial .Mirjsionsj it is anxious to extend its agencies upoi: those so much more wretcheJ and necessitous. This is done just in such pi ©portion as the means fordoing so are augmented, eitlier by restriction on the one hand, or in- creased contributions on the other; and exphiins to the reader why the case of the heathen is so largely, but not exclusively dwelt upon. R. II. in his pamphlet, see page 23 says :— "If John Borland intends to be understood that the Adventislsare apposed to sending the Gospel to the 'heathen,' and to every creature, his 'private conscience' told him that he was penning that which is not true." To this I can on- iv say, "the tree is known by its fruit." I have never lieard of their attemptmg a mission to the heathen ; I !;now they have ridiculed and opposed the elforts of all (fibers in this way. And what do these facts prove 1 And now having written thus far for the mformation of the general reader, and particularly so, for the "honest and pious portion of the Wesleyan Methodists" — I would write a little for the "reproof, correction, and instruction'" ol" "R Hutchinson, M. D., Late Wesleyan Missionary.'" To thee, Richard, I now turn ; hold up thy'Jiead, and iook me straight in the face, for I am going to speak for thy good. Thou hast told us in thy preface that it was •not without reluctanee" that thou permiledst thy pages lu pass before the public eye, not because "thou hsdst the least misgiving as to their correctness, for I knou 'c/iereof I affinii^^ — and then in the last page but two. with thy concluding observations, we have the following: ••God ii! my witness," (solemn words ! aflecting appeal I) -'iht!t 1 have endeavored to present the truth, and notb- '*<- MMMMMikviMMil 3i ng U) c- lur Colo- ics upoi; This is iig so are A, or in- 13 to the •, but not 'If John nlistsare ,' and to n that he [ can on- re never athen ; I rts of a!l •ove '.' brmalion ( "honest -I vvouhl ruction" lionary." ead, and >peak for it it was iy pages )u hsdst ■ 7 knou: but two. illowing; appeal !) nd noth- ing but the truth, and that not in retaliation to others but in vindication of nnysclf, and in tome nicnsure of rny Brethren." Nothing can «ave the mind iVonn shudder- ing at these thy staten.ents but the recollection, that thou :iri the same person who told the special district meeting, held in thy case, that thou hadst received, in answer to prayer, a dist,' ct intimation that tho world would end in April, IS^S, and therefore could not bi;} preach the Mil- lerite dogma in opposition to the kind and urgent exfios- tulationi of the Brethren ; that theu art the same person who publicly avowed that the spirit of God as distinctly witnessed to the world's ending in 18i3, as He did to thy personal acceptance. The recollection of these points in thy history prepares the mind to receive almost any absurdity thnt may issue from thy lips, or thy rambling pen. But then let me ask thee, Richard, how the suppo- sition could have found a lodgment in thy poor, shattered brain, that the Missionary Committee could, instead of demanding of tnee a reasonable proportion of the large sum they have expended upon thy education, outfit of clothing and books, and passage to this country, pay thee a comparatively trifling balance — even if, in all respects otherwise thy demand was strictly accurate ; of the which I am not, I assure thee, a hearty believer? And that too in the face and eyes of all that injury which, with thy ^'Brethren in Canada and the United Stales," ihou ha^t inflicted upon the spiritual and financial interests of their mission ? Dost thou not know, Richard? is it not plain even to thy mind ? that the Missionary Comn/ittee would no more have educated thee for a VVesIeyan Missionary station than for a Chanrelorshij) ; nor have clothed and shipped thee for Canada, no more than they would to the moon, had r'fiL'v po^sesseil ;i proplielic imimation of lliy subsequent career? Yos, Ricliard, shattered atj ilij' poor brain must be, surely thou knovvest all this — then why liast thou ;^onc whining about Canada and the l^nited States, and lilled the land with thy complaints about thy "pecuniary rights?" Why didst thou not enlighten some of thy be- nighted Millerite friends as to the probable reason for the silent and contemptuous treatment which the District Meeting a.ul Missionary Committee gave to thy prepos- terous "claim ?" Again, Richard, hold up thy head now, I am not yet done, and I mean all these interrogative^ for thy good. — How was it that thou couldst suppose that "John Bor- land," even admitting him deficient in "what John Wes- ley calls heathen honesty,"' was so denuded of common sense as to say in a public meeting, especially where so many were present who possessed the means of confu- ting so preposterous a statement, — that a niethodist prea- cher's salary was only j£30 a year? nye, and that the j)reachers on the platform could endorse the saying by cryins,^, "Hear, hear?" Shall I tell thee, Richard, what thou conceivedst this idea for? Why, to furnish thee with a pretext to tell thy gaping admireri? what an exhor- bitant salary a Wesleyan Missionary receivep, and which for ellect, thou hast carried out, not only into pounds, but dollars. And to climb to a climax, thou hast placed in juxtaposition "ff<800 and i^30," — and then comes the eloquent apostrophe — "There is a great dilVerence be- tween $800 and JG30, says the astonished reader, yes a great dilVerence ! and the loveis of fact, cry out, "Hear, hear, hear !" And let me add as an echo of thy ex- clamation — there is a great dilVerence between Richard Hutchinson (or what he appeared to be) of 1810, and ',y.\ )se(|uent lin must 1st thou tes, and ^cuniary thy be- ll for the District prepos- not vet good. — )hn Bor- hn Wes- common vhere so if confu- list prea- that the lying by ird, what ish thee n exhor- ni which iinds, but placed in )mes the jnce be- ler, yes a t, "Hear, r thy ex- Riehard SIO, and Kichard iluli'hinson ©f 1850 ! yes, says the nstonibhed writer, a ?reat dilVerence; and all who know (he partic- ulars of the case, cry — Hear, hear, hear ! tempore ! O mores ! "Evil communications corrupt good man- ners."— 1 Cor. 15: Xi. But, Richard, how was it that thou couldst lend thy- self to injure a cause which, in thy soul, thou knowesl IS carried on in accordance with the (Strictest principles of honesty, truth, ajiil piety ? With other.s thou hast joined, and with unholy hands, thou art labouring to scat- ter thy lire brands to burn up one of the most beauteous erections of modern days, viz., our Missionary institute. It is true, thy elTorts produce but sparks, and are not like- ly to injure aught but shavings and straws that are mo- ving about with every breath of wind. It is to thy spir- it and intention that I ain now pointing. Many of thv fellow labourers may claim a measure of extenuation on the ground of ignorance ; but not so thee. Thou knovv- est, thou didst know, can it be possible thy brain hajj leaked out this knowledge? thou didst know, and didst of- ten express hearty approval of all thou art now condem- ning. Therefore thou art inexcusable. Richard, 1 trem- ble for the stale of thy heart, unl?ss the siate of ihv head, never the soundest, should be the whole cause of ihy stranjie conduct. Oh Richai-d ! I am sorry to pen it, but the cause of truth deiriands it cf me — thou art made a eats-paw of, by others more crafty and designing than thyself. Thev have, in common with thyself, lost caste with their for- mer Churches, and they have neither sense nor grace Id retrace their steps. They want a subsistence — therefore must raise a cause, if possible. If they cannot buy sheep, why, they will steal them. They bear some analcgy to ;rt ihc ([ualcer, who \s saiil to liave given Lis son llic I'oliow- ing advice upon enteiing tl»e world : "John, get money ; gi't il honestly if thou canst ; but, John, get money." — So, "Let ui raise Churches — let uji raise tlieni honestly — if we tart, but l«t m rai^e Churches." Mcthink.s tliey have said to tliee, Richard, '•Publi>h a pamphlet— call it a -atatenient of lacts,' is-c— dedicate it to the ' hone^t and pious portion of the Wesleyan Methodisla,' reiter- ate thy old story of thy ' pecuniary rights' — hold up that vile fellow ' the Rev. J. Horland,' who has so often been a thorn in our sides, — and don't forget the Nova Sco- tian's verfcioii of the fsreign missions busineitjn — write it ' R. II. M. D.'— may be it will operate as a wedge and yplii us oil* some splinter* from the Wesleyan Church— with the.-'e we may hope to get along somewhal faster t!;an by patiently toiling at the (luarry for stones for eur use." And thou hast obeyed tlieni, Richard. Didst thou never read, Richard, little .'Esoi)'d fable of the fox in the well, and how he wheedled the poor goat? Oh, Richard ! they have made a cats-paw of thee. I tell thee, and I assure thee, believe it or not, thou wouldst have been in a more honorable position as a door-keep- er m a Methodist temple, than being a mere cats-paw tti the whole Millerite sect. Of course thy position is thy own election, and thou mayest abide, but ere we part, allow me to give thee a little advice. Never again put thy fingers into the fire to please any one, and never a- gain provoke a chastisement from ihy old friend "the Rev. J. Borland." Now he uses taws fit only for chil- dren. The next time should he be provoked by thee to notice thv doings — he mav use a cane. llic lollow- el money ; ivMiey.''— - Ml honesily think.s tlujy » let— call 11 !ie ' lione?i iltf,' reilcr- loltl up thai I o[\cn been Novn Sco- irf — wiite it wedge anil 1 Church— what fusler jries for eur ard. Didst J of the lox goal? Oil, hee. I tell loii wouldst , door-keep- cats-paw to »sitinn is ihy ?re we part, r again put nd never a- friend "the Illy lor chil- d by thee to