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a Scotchman, first meets us at Elbing, 

 Prussia, where he was pastor of an English 

 factory. There he became acquainted with 

 Godeman, a privy counsellor of Gustavus 

 Adolphus. Godeman suggested to Durie 

 that whoever should bring about a recon- 

 ciliation between the great parties into 

 which Christendom was divided would be 

 the greatest peacemaker. . This remark 

 was the turning point of his life. In 1628 

 he addressed a letter to the Swedish king, 

 "for the obtaining of aid and assistance 

 in this seasonable time, to seek for and 

 re-establish an ecclesiastical peace among 

 the evangelical churches." The king gave 

 his sanction, and gave him letters recom- 

 mending him to all Protestant princes. 

 Henceforth he devoted his life to this 

 work. He went to and fro between Eng- 

 land and the continent, attending assem- 

 blies, receiving opinions, exhorting to 

 union, trying to bring about reconciliation 

 of differences, and looking for a common 

 platform on which all could stand. Some 

 English bishops, — even Laud, then Bishop 

 of London, — looked with great favor on 

 his work. Bishops Davenant, Morton, and 

 Hall gave him their views on Christian 



