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Biographical Sketch
Dury's childish recollection of that honest, sturdy character had doubtless been strengthened and deepened by fireside tales of imprisonment and escape, banishment and recall, and all the storm and stress of that life of religious conflict, both as monk and minister. A lad of nine when his father was banished, he was yet old enough to understand the cause, and to feel rebellious resentment against the war of sects that made such injustice possible. What wonder that he early felt yearnings for Christian unity and that the opportunity, when it came, found him ready to devote to the cause the labours of half a century!
