[Pioneers and Founders by Charlotte Mary Yonge]@TWC D-Link bookPioneers and Founders CHAPTER V 28/31
Finally the whole of the right of Marshman and Carey to the buildings was sold to the Society, for a much less amount than they had paid from their own pockets; but they were to occupy them rent free for the rest of their lives. The trouble and anxiety consequent on this question, which had been of many years' standing, had greatly impaired Dr.Marshman's strength both of body and mind.
Morbid attacks of depression came on, during which he wandered about, unable to apply himself so much as even to write a letter, though in the intervals he was both cheerful and full of activity.
Dr.Carey's health was likewise failing, and, with no formed illness, he gradually sank, and died on the 9th of June, 1834, in his seventy-third year. To him belongs the honour of the awakening of the missionary spirit in England.
Yet, as an individual preacher and teacher, he does not seem to have had much power.
His talent was for language and philology; his perfections were faith and perseverance.
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