not going to Mr. Newton about it, that he had been gone to about it. Mr. Newton held no communication with me at the time. When the brethren urged me to wait in April, and grace and patience were to be continued, I went to call on Mr. Newton, and, not finding him, told him I had, but he never came to see me nor renewed any intercourse. I did not, therefore, go to him about it, it was indeed no wrong done to me, but Mr. Harris and Mr. Naylor did, and both told him that his account was an untrue one, and, in spite of this, he himself continued to circulate it, before even I brought it before the brethren; and that I never did (having mentioned it only to Messrs Harris and Soltau) till demanded my reasons for leaving.
However, ― Mr. N. assembled by invitation the brethren who came from a distance, at the house of one of his strongest partisans, to give his statements. Some demurred to this as not the fitting thing. Sir A. C., Mr. Mc A., and Mr. Wigram, one evening, would not go (I know not that they ever attended such an one). Mr. Naylor urged that they should, as statements and impressions might be made of which they would be unable to judge, but they would not. Mr. Naylor went; Mr. N. sent out Mr. Clulow to hinder his coming in, and declared he would state nothing at all if he were present; and he had to go away. Mr. Naylor went to Mr. Newton’s the next day to know why, being one of the persons in the invitation, he was thus treated. Mr. Newton turned him (very civilly) out of his house, and told him he did not want to have any thing to say to him.[1] Mr. Mc Adam was soon convinced that all was wrong. He lodged in the house where Mr. Harris lived. Mr. Newton met him, and said to him, Mr. Me Adam I should like to know on what ground you are here, you are in very suspicious
- ↑ Mr. Naylor had been here before the other brethren, and had gone among the Ebrington Street people. They had as usual made all kinds of statements to him, but, instead of taking their truth for granted as most have done, (and no wonder), he had enquired in detail, and found many things to be wholly untrue: and hence he was very obnoxious.
