Reforming tendencies.--Corruptions in the Church.--Bad trades.--Faults in the ministry.--Toleration of vice.--Drinking habits.--Intemperance.--The Connexion.--Faulty rules.--Bad customs.--Defective institutions.--All encouraged to suggest reforms and punished for doing so.--Original principles of the Connexion set aside, and persecution substituted for freedom.--My simplicity.--My reward.--The Ministry.--Drunkenness.--Teetotalism.--Advocacy of Temperance.--Outcry of preachers.--My Evangelical Reformer.--Articles on the prevailing vices of the Church; On Toleration and Human Creeds;--On Channing's Works; On Anti-Christian trading, &c., get me into trouble.--Conference interference.--Conference trials.--The state of things critical.--No remedy.--Matters get worse and worse.--Exciting events: too many to be named here.--Envy, jealousy, rage, strife, confusion, and many evil works.--Conspiracies: Fierce conflicts.--Expulsion, 117 CHAPTER XI. Explanations about the different Methodist Bodies.--Grounds of my reformatory proceedings.--About immoralities.--Christianity not to blame for the faults of professors and preachers.--My own defects, 153 CHAPTER XII. Story of my life continued.--Results of my expulsion.--Fierce fighting.--Desperation of my persecutors.--Great excitement on my part.--Rank crop of slanders.--Monstrous ones.--And silly ones.--Bad deeds as well as wicked words.--Hard work.--Exhaustion.--Powerlessness.--Three days' rest.--Long sleep.--Wonderful,--delightful,--result.--Public debates.--Remarkable occurrences; seemed Providential.--A lying opponent unexpectedly confronted and confounded.--New Body,--Christian Brethren.--My church at Newcastle.--Change in my views, and fresh troubles.--Losses.--Poverty.--Learn the Printing business.--Follow it under difficulties.--Want of funds.--Generous friends. Family on the verge of want.--Pray.--An unlooked-for cart-load of provisions.--Trust in Providence.--False friends.--True ones.--A mad utterance.--A worse deed.--Theological Conventions.--Free investigations and public discussions.--Change of views, 103 CHAPTER XIII. Approach to Unitarianism.--Kindness of Unitarians.--Preaching and lecturing in their pulpits.--Ten nights' public discussion with Rev. W. Cooke.--Subjects.--Results.--Publications.--Now periodicals.--Unitarian invitation to London.--Public reception.--Liberal contributions to Steam Press Fund.--Press presentation.--Dr. Bateman; Dr.-Sir-John Bowring.--Pleasurable change from intolerance and persecution to friendship and favor.--Discoveries.--Unitarianism has many phases.--Channingism.--Anti-supernaturalism.--Deism.--Atheism.--Gradually slid down to the lower, 191 CHAPTER XIV.