These last words were in a letter to Williams. He must afterwards have
left the boat, perhaps to catch more water, and have been too weak to
climb back into it, for his remains were on the beach. Williams lost the
power of writing sooner, and no more is known of his end, though probably
he died first, and Pearce must have been trying to prepare his grave when
he, too, sank.

What words can befit this piteous history better than "This is the
patience of the saints"?

The memorial to Allen Gardiner has been a mission-ship bearing his name,
with her head-quarters at the Falkland Isles. We believe that these
isles are to become a Bishop's See. Assuredly a branch of the Church
should spring up where the seed of so patient and devoted a martyrdom has
been sown.

CHAPTER XI. CHARLES FREDERICK MACKENZIE, THE MARTYR OF THE ZAMBESI.

That Zulu country where poor Allen Gardiner had made his first attempt
became doubly interesting to the English when the adjoining district of
Natal became a British colony. It fell under the superintendence of
Bishop Robert Gray, of Capetown, who still lives and labours, and
therefore cannot be here spoken of; and mainly by his exertions it was
formed into a separate Episcopal See in the year 1853. Most of the
actors in the founding of the Church of Natal are still living, but there
are some of whom it can truly be said that--

"Death hath moulded into calm completeness
The statue of their life."

Charles Frederick Mackenzie was born in 1825 of an old Scottish Tory
family, members from the first of the Scottish Church in the days of her
persecution. His father, Colin Mackenzie, was one of Walter Scott's
fellow-Clerks of Session, and is commemorated by one of the Introductions
to "Marmion," as--

"He whose absence we deplore,
Who breathes the gales of Devon's shore;
The longer missed, bewailed the more."

His mother was Elizabeth Forbes, and he was the youngest of so unusually
large a family that the elders had been launched into the world before
the younger ones were born, so that they never were all together under
one roof. The father's delicacy of health kept the mother much
engrossed; the elder girls were therefore appointed as little mothers to
the younger children, and it was to his eldest sister, Elizabeth
(afterwards Mrs. Dundas), that the young Charles always looked with the
tender reverence that is felt towards the earliest strong influence for
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