"I have read over and over again with all possible attention and care your proposed inscription for Dr. Ryerson's Memorial, and candidly allow that I could not propose the change of a word, or even of a letter in it. I prepared something similar, twenty-three years ago, for a gravestone for the late Rev. Dr. Stinson, and know well the difficulty of compressing important facts within the limits permissible for an inscription. It could not have fallen into better hands, when it fell to your lot to write it. As ever, dear doctor, yours affectionately, E. B. H." From Rev. W. H. Withrow, D.D., Toronto:-- "I think the inscription admirable. Yours, W. H. D." THIS STATUE IS ERECTED AS A MEMORIAL OF THE GREAT PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE REV. EGERTON RYERSON, D.D., LL.D, SON OF COLONEL JOSEPH RYERSON, A BRITISH OFFICER WHO SERVED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND WHO WAS ONE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS WHO SETTLED IN THIS PROVINCE. * * * * * A DISTINGUISHED MINISTER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH, 1825-1852. HE OBTAINED FOR THAT CHURCH A ROYAL CHARTER IN ENGLAND FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF UPPER CANADA ACADEMY AT COBOURG, 1828-1841. AFTERWARDS THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA COLLEGE, OF WHICH HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT. * * * * * IN FOUNDING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OF HIS NATIVE PROVINCE, AND IN PROMOTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FREE SCHOOLS, HE DISPLAYED THE RARE GIFTS OF A FAR-SEEING AND ENLIGHTENED STATESMAN, AND FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS WAS THE ABLE ADMINISTRATOR OF THAT SYSTEM, 1844-1876. * * * * * ERECTED BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SCHOOL TRUSTEES INSPECTORS, TEACHERS, PUPILS AND OTHERS; AIDED BY A GRANT FROM THE CITY OF TORONTO AND THE LEGISLATURE OF ONTARIO. CHAPTER II. CEREMONY OF UNVEILING THE STATUE, 24TH MAY, 1889. The ceremony of unveiling of the Statue is thus described by _The Globe_ of May the 25th (abridged):-- The number of truly great men is not large in any country.