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Las diagrammas suivants iliustrent la m^thoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^3 LETTER (Xo. i,) TO THE BEV. JOHN BORLAND. itbtrnii 3ir, Th« Copj of yoor " Rorieww rcTicwed " which you liail tho goodno« to Kik] rac, rtmo duly to liaixL A liaatjr perunl of iho tlocamint tatliflcd me that It Airatehtd tho rttf beat idditional prooik I could offer In Rapport of the gencnd charge of Incompetency, u a writer, which I had prefe r red agiinit yoa In mjr No. 1. and acting upon that eonriction, I Immediately addroaaed yoa a note, rapectAilly ailring for fifty eopiea of It, and pledging myaelf at the aame time to addreaa one to each of tho p^tlca to whom t bad lent my own letter. One would hare sappoaod you would hare been glad to put your cruahing reply before erery man who had aeen tho production you had boDorad with ao many beautiftil namea, but you treated my application with " aerere and ailcnt contempt" Urged, aa you will no doubt conclude, by a desire to do yoa ample Jnatice, and being denied the opportunity of doing ao by acnding your Reriew to tho peraoiw who rcceircd my abect, I am left to the alternative of printing a r^olndor, which I truat will bo more satiafiiclory to you than my letter Na 1. You will pardon me if I do not treat tho aqhject upon which I enter with orcrmuch solemnity — upon aome occaaiona it la exceedingly difflcnlt to be grare. Pourguoi ne dimit on yai la uriti en riant t I had hardly expected you would deem me worthy of notice, and yet, T thought yoa could not rcry well afford to be aOtet, aa Judgment might then go by default Ton have anawcred, and I hare therefore tho proud conaciouaneaa of having been inatramental In procuring to tho Republic of Letters another great contribution fhrni your pen. In the next edition of DltrntlVt OurUnititt r/ Littraturf, it nay be that tho Weakyan connexion will bo gratified by aeeing a production from one of its moat gifted aonx. That your gracclVil tribute to my character and abllitlea did not originate in oxuboranco of Ioto, is patent upon the Ikoe of the opiatle, bat it Indicates, and with tolerable certeinty, that my arrow bad reached ite mark, inflicting a deep, yet I hope not incurable iroand. Hence yoor erica of distreaa which, howerer, be it said in a whiaper, for fear of offence, you hare not even the talent to utter in decent EnglWi. Tour critielama of my orthograihy and diction are In excellent keeping with yonr other writings, I only regret you did not amplliy, flir fioundering as you do, every anoccaslvo ' plange" prcaenta a new aspect of the ridic> Joua which, were it not very melancholy, would bo infinitely entertaining. Yoa address yoar letter to another aoft-beaded friend, but untbrtonatHy Ibr your purpose, everybody Is not prep«i«d to accept nonaenao, nor are all your rMdera credulous enough to gulp down all you say of mc. Tho quotation which followa— I am sorry to bo under the necessity of saying It— contains an untruth, and tlioso who know me best will stand aghast at your hardihood. "You aco him here a* he ha* been (fften »<:'nhyothen\mivttki\uavMotvindieticefe»Ungt:' unless you can bring witnesses, you must bo rrgitnled as a— bad num. I adduce another Instance of contempt for truth, *' ht taitt vp with tnarltd " cagemeas anything that falls from my pen with the evident design of shewing how incompetent I am to write, &c." Now Bcverend Sir, you know that I nerer took up your writings for the purpose of criticising them, until I came to Toronta I alluded once or twice, in my correspondence with a Montreal paper— 1 doubt If I did it more than oncc~io tho politico-religious letters to Roman Catholics you published in tho Quehee Gatette, but as to taling them up with tagerncm, with varied eagemem, for the purpose of criiiclam, the statement Is absurdly and wkkcdiy untrue : mark that Mr. Uoriand. Your literary labours in that line amounted I believe to a respectable aiaeil volume, whereas all I ever said about them toouW not eoter onc-tieenticth part of Ihu theet I Tlicn you have printol sundry ;>amphlcU and a small book, all of them diatinguished for grammatical inaccuracies, upon which I have never offered a remark, other than the ono contained in my letter issued a few days ago. And yet you havo the imprudence to say that Ttnke up uM marked eagerno) anything thatfallt from your pen, in onUr to »A«i» houUl you write/ f Havo you no shame? Have you so entirely forgotten tho sicrcdncss of truth M to oxporienco no qualms of conscicneo when you utter falsehoods of this magnitude ? Your reputation for conscientiousness docs not stand very high in a certain place, and unless you control your unruly momben— tongue ami dcxlor hand — I fear it will fall equally low here. My statement with regard to attendance at class is ona which cannot bo truthfully contradicted, an- . all your show of Indignation will In no wiso Inralldato it Having been for twenty-nino years in direct intercoars: with Wedeyan Societies in this country, — twenty aa a member, and eight or nine as a Class Leader — I holil myself to be as competent a witness of the usages and habits of tho Methodist people as the very Reverend Mr. Borland, and I deliberately re-assert that at this moment thousands of members neglect meeting in class without being broagitt Qodor discipline. Aye t and I will go ftirthcr than in my first letter, and say, that In most cases of neglect, the reason is not inquired faito. With all your painstaking you have detected two typographical errors In my letter, which you present as fiiults of my own, and re«- pecting ono of tbcm, you say I " eoined it for the sake of effect," or, fur the purpose of damaging you. Tou mean that I lied. Now Mr. Boriand, it ia true I have very little respect for you, but God forbid that I should descend to so mean an action aa giving currency to a lie about yon, or any body else. My remark upon the passage in which the word " reference" occurs ia u follows— "We havo the allutiont of Malachi, and tbs 'nifinnta to them by Jehovah himself,' of which pluralities you say ' i will read it for your consideration.' " My readera wDI see that the ob- /■^ttlon ia not baaed upon tho s in " references," but upon the " allusions and lefercncee," ao thnt you may drop the ■ (which was a iypograpUcal |«n«r) in the aecond word, without lessening the force of tho objection. You will gain very little credit by this unworthy stniageia. Speaking of orthographical errors, allow me to tell you that I passed over several words misspelled In yonr Dialogue, which Indicated Ity deariy that they had been wrongly written, and I find similar defects in your "Reviewer noTlewcd.V Please note the foUowhig;— h!«t, )Jrd page, or Preface, "Phamphlet"; 6th page, "scpcrate"; 7th page, "seperate"; (tho repetition of this eiror b something like ■ Aat yoii did not know how to spell that simple word.) Pago 10, " irresistoble" : page 14, " eounell and pray" Ac., for eouniil ; page 18, |*'liaiw?«»er." The letter to your "Dear Friend" shows the following:— Ist page, " violators" ; 8rd page, "inellganciea"; cauio paragraph, |> " tadlganoiea'' again I There are other mistakes which I do not mark aa they are apparently due to tho type-eettcn. I come now to the use you have made of my unpublished note to yonraelf, and if I were to employ very strong language In reprobation of Uw act, I am sure no person of right feeling would hold me guilty of a breach of christian courtesey. lly proceeding in sending you that note wu dictated by a desire to avoid doing you injustice, but with a total disregard of polemical propriety you have introduced the contents of a hurried icnw], which formed no part of the document upon which you were rcmariiing. In your reply. As to tho criticisms npen the tioti> itMtf, can it be necessary that I ahould tell tho reader that tiie technical word " proof" is used by printers and writers without the addition of "copy"? I would not insult any man of common intelligence by supposing it ntcntuy, but for your sake T crave reference to Webster. " VtooT, No. 7, in prinUng and engraving, a rough impression of a sheet token for correction ; ;i'titra{ Paoors." And then aa to the uao of the word "issue," did you not know tlwt that verb is both active and neuter, or transitive and intransitive ? Your cavil suggests that you do not oven undentand tho most simple rudiments of grammar. See Webster, " Issue, 1. 1, to po-ss or flow out, ix., &o," Legs' t>roeeaaes israe, or may be "ready to issue," so may debentures or scrip from Stock Companies; warrants from the Government; books and Icttera ftt>m the Press, te., ftc. Sir, your hypercriticism (don't mistake the word for hypocrisy) is wortliy of yonr logic and grammar. When I tell you that I wil> liDgly take the risk of all your other marvellous critiques you will excupo my giring them a more extended notice. I have another serious charge to bring against you, and it is one which no writer baring decent eelf-respeet can aflbnl to treat lightly. Bsing a minister of the Gospel your presumed sanctity m^ea it especially necessary that you should act in good fiUth, In other words, like on iMMStman. This yoa have not done in yoar " Review, Ac" Toattainancnd yoabavadeaeanded toaverydoabtAilact You have miaqootcd me, or to be more explicit, you have withhekl from your readers portions of some of my orgamenia which were necessary to their integrity (I «ao the word Inttgrity In its primary and bsst asnso— wholeness.) In proof of this charge I refer the reader to the 6ih paragraph of my flnl r, and to lb* 6(l^ 7tli, iwd etk of yooTS, also to my paragn^h U, and to Its matilaii«r> at your paragraph 10. I cliVKO you AirUicr with baring untruUiAilly reprewuted your ouh teriliugi ! I Vour unbtrneH in regard to mj own word* wm criminal (njngh, but without uiing ■niierlatirti, hov ahall I ch tractcri:w the conduct of a man, who, fllling thn Mcred Ofllre of Spiritual Initructor, dcmMnahimaelf lomuch aa to hlaify kit own uordt for Cie purpoae of getting out of difficdlt; f. Now aa anyone who may ehooM to waat« bia time upon the peniml of your lit Dialogue, down to page T, will lee, the diaciia* ion between Algernon Softhrad and Saniuel 0>hl-patcher, waa regarding Ibe propriety of making attendance upon claia-meotlng a condition of Church membcniliip. Mr. Softhead held that it waa not right to do ao, Mr. <>dd-patchcr, tliat it waa. Odd-patchcr ioaiated that Mr. Wmloy waa arerac to tlio relaxation of the rule ; Sof thelMl main- tained tliat Mr. Wealey had no idaa of making oliwlienee to auoh a rule a condition of member- 'jip at all. Odd-patchcr aaid, that ao Ur ftora Ur. W'caley being diapoacd ti) make the ruU Um atringent, ho waa inclined to make it if poaaibla mert rigoroua, and here are hia worda, " You " And no eyidence, not the alightest, that lie wialicd tlie condition of mambcrahip to bo made bw atringent, but Ut emitrary rather. The " burden of proripg tha lailtr UU upon you, my friend." Will any one lay that Odd-patt-her did not writs latUr here inatead of formtrt Waa he not labouring to ahow that Softhead coidd not prore anytliing in fitrour of tho relaxation of the rule, and did he not intend to cluU- longo the adduction of tho evidence which be imagined hia antagoniat could not produce ? Rut let ma call attention to tho very next member of ttie lentvnce, which ia aa followi, " I aaaura you your attempt at doing ao would bo the commencement of a very hopeleia taak." Rererend Sir, I (tatod tliat you wore " calling upon your ;/pponent to auatain a proposition entirely diatiiict ftom, and antagoniatio to, the one you " intended to aubmit " to him, and I repeat tlie allegation. You were of courao dcairoua that ho aliould fumiah proof if h« comd, of what he had aaaertcd, not of wlut you had afflnned, bat believing he could not do ao, you told him that hia "attempt would be the commencement of a " very hopeleaa taak." Yet you aaaart in your hitter, that you meant to cnl) upon bun to prove that Mr. Wealey wiahed to inorcaae tho rigour of the rule I In ao uying you told an untruth upon yourwlf. (The reader will pleaae refer to paragraph 0, in oiy first litter, and to tha reply of Mr. Borland, paragraph a) To proceed; I feel proud that in tho interpretation of your own worda, (ma paragraph 7 of Mr. Borlanl'a letter) you have availwl youravlf of the inatniotiona I gave you at my paragraph S. It enableame tho better to bear up under the godly abuaa which, no doubt in companion to my perverae aoul, you lutve heaped upon mv, in the aubaequcnt parta of your letter. I may aa well tell you here that I had hoard of the Deed of Settlement, and that it ia Juat poasible I may be aa conversant with tlie hi "tory of Metliodiun, and with hiatory gcnemlly, aa younelf. Ilappiiy knowledge "unrolU its amplo page " to laymen as readily an to i-ccleaia-slii %. I do not know that there ia much eUe to notice in your hut " literary effbrl," which ,\-lly drink large draughts thereftvro f Ah Sir, I fear some wickep«aitii>o„cr oootradMioetionttDr. l^eni»B> ft> ctrtnlnly tht-plHMUdfimt i I I ! ♦ • A. him," I r t wonb wu of Spiritiwl lyehooMto ')biiu well tell you mi, and witit iration, 'a, no iljuiiicg your to pM8 with- ren you such idiun, believe t critic would 9 been added, ' the meaninii; of (yntax, '.>y ioni.', !Ur more attendance at know you in- been as great «, your indig- \\>ie, fa more 'A injunction lere are really ill, as you are js Discipline I ibllowing the leering levity, reserve or ta- itkM fcr thtj: ^ f • • that yon and the other p«riy agrae to oppose the Dostor. Again, " His pMy ■< a dtristlan ; Ms hsMls as a pastor ; hh rntelHgtnee aa a Mnh- ter, gave assurance that the acrrico wonld be well-pcrfoniwd by his hand. AH tkit u tht ease so far as the main objrc* of th« pamphM (Ra*. Mr. Wilk'nson'ft is concerned." The ruder will plcaw oliserve that the piety, liaUta and inlollig\>nre of the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson u tht sge 7.—" Tho burden of proving the latter, mbi irilh you my IHtnd, and I assure yoa your attempt would he tlie tumiutnetmcnt of a Itopclrm lank." TIm attempt to prove, would be th* task, not its eommenoemont The next phrsse, " Ho calM for no alterwUon in the diaci|>Unary usage /or tiie Church tlicr« (the United States) t* that," Aci, My fnm that, Ac., and y«t the sentence will be hine ; in-lF«utnic(e4 that it cannot be mended, Next phrase.— "This one DkI (the Ikct that Mr. Wesley intmduroi no change in tho discipline) is fatal to your antomtnl drav"% /rent $mH a touree, anil mutt thtn^fon h* abandoiftd." 8an-h(ad liail drawn no argument from nicA a murre ; but mark t tht ttrp J'att so triumphantly wielded to demolish tho srgunient, mutt tw abmutcutl I Page 8. — " As to your proposition Hiul it* spplicatifln, Ac, I must say il eT-lnccs." The two are an if. raga\ 8 and ».— " Hare you not rpad, *r." " If so, has i» not occurred to you," Ac. How could it if h« had not read T Pago 0. — " Out if Ihvy arc com^wlliHl to feed and rule, arc the niomhvrx ro bo held by no obligation but that of their own good pleasure," Ac. Plesmire is not an obligation. Same page. — "Tlio A|iostlc viewcil t'fc conduct of such ahscntocs in a ttrong light." "Strong light" is not otrong disapprobstion. Light shines U|ion good ss upon Imd sclioiis. Pago 10. — "To surrender tlicm, Ac, would apart from their important use, bo sn act/«. recklessness and folly of whicli I trunt we are not csiMlile." This phrase In excwdinRly rich. IsL — Leaving " their imimttsnt uso " out of the question, it would l>u sn act y«r (of) rccklMisnrss siid folly to nurrciidir Ihcni! Xow as they arc only valuable bteante of "their important use" it strikes me that retaining Ihcin ainirt from it, would bo tht act of rtcklcssneiM and folly. 2nd. — "An act for recklessness and fully." One expects cither a comparison (o be instituted between this act of folly, and other acts of folly, or an assertion that it would lie without precedent in tlio annals of folly ; but Mr. liorlnnd has a way of rounding oif his sentences quitu peculiar to himself, and which in his judgment ia so corrvct, that woe be to tho dog that liarks at it The same page, "but those n positiona Sain» patagrapb, " dono considcrablr," Tittlebat Titmouse reditieut. Paragraph 3, " will they fail to discern that while he smooths them " with' one ha ad he itabt them with tho other." Reverend Sir, uhen they aro itahbed they will not require to be informed of it by you. I esBHOt pass over your amiable attempt to impose upon simple people, by representing me as the libeller of the Methodist Ministry. If I have tcVan you in liand it is because you richly deserve it, and I now promise you that I shall not relax in my honest eflbrta to do you jlMtia^ I have defended your "Order" by speech and by writing, and have received as my reward, the hearty thanks of many Methodista^ ^.hgtii aorinlaattai and laymen. You yourself know, that I once used tho nam de plume at foot of this letter, when, as tho friend of the Wo«- lajWkMlnialeni in Lower Canada, I rebuked one of their assailsnta, who, by (he way, made you appear very omall. Tho non-attendance at dfNaMctinci is a standing proof of the unreasonableness of tho rule, and a close inquisition into tho causes of absence would be resented bjr r nembers aa a gross impertinence. Though you aro a martinet, and have earned the MuhriqMt of "tho 6ghting man of the District," I even would not undertake to "hound "or dragoon into punctuality some members I wot of. li'lTwcre not an improper liber^ I I give tho names of persons whom, whilo their Pastor, you never brouglit under discipline for absence from the class. I perceive I have only got to your third paragraph and there are nineteen others. A first cursory p-.rusal of the letter revealed over twenty , and as in the case of tho Dialogue, I verily believe a second examination would show a great many more, but I hare not time to waste upon tlMthanklev task, so I shall just point out two or three more. Paragraph i^ "Cobbett, Ac, was satisfied with what the writings of those celebrities ahne supplied." Did he ne^'cr examine othMr vrritinfA or did he iasten upon these as affording him peculiar satisfaction, just as you suppose 1 have dono with respect to youriif If ho bod lived until now he would huve found another celebrity who would have supplied him ad nautetun. Parapfraph 7, — Here's an Ellipsis with a vengeance, " Mr. Wesley never designed his Societies should become an organised Church, but ever remain an integral portion of the Episcopal " Chureh." Before " ever remain " tlio words " on the contntry he intended that they should " can hardly be dispensed with, still I would not liavc alluded to the omission if you had not gone into ecstacies about one of my own ellipses. The Ust batch of blunders I shall serve up is the following, and although the word jargon has offended you mightily, I cannot help saying tliat more disgraceful jargon thaii ia contained in tho tVo' subjoined sentences has <«cldom if ever been put in ^rpe. " Further, tlut cireumstanccs which he could not control, arose in tht eonduct of ungodly and perteeuting ministers of that church towards the memliers of his societies, and which, hn apprehended, would lead to the very separation ho was so anxious to prevent Foreseeing, especially tohirds the close of his life, that little prol>ability remained of his Societies being recognized and treated as a portion of the Church of England; or, thatwere tht'j ct«» to treated, they would hate (he tpiritual culture bettmted upon them uhich they needed; and therefbre, that that which ha had Uborod'agahwt, viz: a separate church organization, would be necessitated— ho 'to some extent provided for it,* by enrolling a deed in Chancery ; one important end of which being, to give the conference of his preachers such a legal Status that when the tMng feared became a neeetiity, they might be in circumstances to meet it" I admit that in my first letter I used very plain language in speaking of your writings, but in tlie science of vituperation I candidly oonftas you are vastly my superior. If you had rtudied grammar as diligently as you seem to havo hunted up tei-ms of reproach and contmiMly you would not have had tho mortiflcation of being held up to public gaio as a mere pretender. I close thia communication with a vocabulary of iMiikUimi, MiMfruM yuw oMtiyMwtiTCfy •tnrt«|iiMl« to ibow Um gooa MMbodi* p«t^ bow «m of Uiair hmm banortd M Uitm (M Birit. If*. BottA»'t VoeuctAH or Amu, Tott aj I ok«rUi "viwIiellM faHngi'*! UMt I hav* » "waipWi ■pirtt"; Hurt I tm "pwt"; thrt I "giniiy • long dwririMd grudM," "diMbMBoaqmiitttf oTbOo"; Itet I "ibcnula tndHM" thtMoUiodirtUiniatm; thrt I um« "rotten MKumnit"; that I am "Tain"; I "MMOthwMliOMliaadaM Mab with Um othar'; Ihatlama Juda% "akiwiagdMdlAU eiMDiy"; that I am aa cooiiulMit aa a tUaf 0*ka«Tat7"t lhatIh|man"oMiiaa nUndandgmlignoiBiioa"; thatlama ''gwitkinao" (iropicaUy). Yoaa/I why I un not wMi earlate litttt aai jroa aMwcr "batauaa and l«kTa Um nit to bo flniiW bjr yoor dnr M«nd; you did not OMCttf Um to aar " bocuta ho ia |l M,** which no doabt you nMaat, for yoa had eaUad ma ignorant, obtoae, Ac. bofont, and anlcai yon nwant ••*ai"«r "tMs" why did yoola^lhtiiwoo blank. You likon nM to an « Inaect with boiring importiDMiec, nieking locaa. " Yoa aocnw «M or "aapii k tiro bnfmdaaor," tl baing a " wooM-ba-oritlc,'' of "oiaUgnant acorraity " and of " bting a long way bdow the lUndard of a •^gwUHMn." Ton My I an a » UnUmt of llothodiam "; that I had a " apodal intontion of toaultiog'and viliuying you " ; i ml that I '■ malign ••MtllMuUbothlholifaiiatonan4p«oploorourehureh" Ac, ftr,, Ac ArTiaTnooaoTi. „ Onoe npon a time, in St /o|pM, Now Braniwicfc, I got Into a ncwapaper con tr orcf iy with a pariy, who coming to tlio Tiay with a awagger, wa thln g Hka what you have cshlUtad, waa ncTerthokn ghd enough to reifafe from the flold ; but then, though nota Cleigymao, ho waa a aMmr tad > logteiaa, and ftpding ha had tha wofat of the aiffnent, he honeatly abandoned hia-peritioa. I do not ny you have been wonted hi three, or sixty-six, but you forgot to state, that I bad antici- palad yo« fay aay log that "many jAhera that might bo enumerated, ware entertained to meeting in class by persons of piety, or well-disposed " to aaak raHgioa "—another fas t a fcs of your lUmesa. Cta« moethiga were iaaUtaiil by Mr. Wesley, whom we all agree to regard as a man of great moral and intellectual power ; a man raised hf I^oridence to pehbrm a speciajnask ; in fact, a Befbrmer in tho highest sense of the word. H.o did his work welt, and " having serrod hia ** gsnaration, aocordfaig to the *i|. of Ood, he fell asleep." His work was, " to rcrive experimental rdigion in the land," end we may say, throughout tho worM. In tha P^Wit of hia bdy mission he did many things require^ by the then condition of society, and one of these thliy waa prsachiiHt ftoquent^te tha open ur, a practice which few of the preachers in our diy deem it necessary to hnitatc. Hn peopia whaQj igbonat of ftlpl religion, and gtron up to all manner of vice, — indeed almost ombruted,— requuwl "lino upon Preaching hardly met thoee requlrementa. Tho aceretkms of ignorance arc not rcmored by .tk>n; thla he felt, aad to meet the exigeneiea of the timca ho established dasa-meetiiigs, to tho " instruction of the foolish and the teaching of b^bea," as well as to many other good purpaacs. adTocate tlie abolition of Clasa-meetinga ereiy candid mM will chcerfblly acknowledge, but by trarea- to make mo responsible for the manilestation of such a desire. I envy not the man who can reaort to m admisaion, saw the condition of things gradually changing, and saw it with regret, still (I reason on the new phases aa they occurred. He even (according to you) foresaw the necessity of a Church organ- Iw it Well I infer IVom all this that strongly as he ws« attached to ihe simple system he had called into to deny the possibility of ita being fanproved, but prepared tho way for the introduction of such alterations Time rolla on, and the human mind p rcgre s a ca . One after another tho instltutiona of tho paai onnbte with the actual condition of thhiga. Some icen, like Mr. Westey, are in adranee of their bat fiiw good ideaa are irroTOcaUy lost Tha sower does' not atwaya reap, yet the aeod regetatca ara alwaya found in oppositi