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Biographical Sketch
Disappointed, but not utterly cast down, he went to Cassel, where the Landgrave of Hesse, and afterwards the Landgrave's widow, favoured his plans and protected him. From his home in Cassel, he continued his labours, travelling back and forth throughout Germany until his death in 1680. But his later years were full of discouragement and disappointment. "The only fruit," he cried, "which I have reaped by all my toils is that I see the miserable condition of Christianity, and that I have no other comfort than the testimony of my conscience."
In spite of his life of almost unceasing active labour, Dury
