of the more constant and complete worship then enjoined by
college rules. Daily service was new to him, and was accepted of course
as college discipline, but after a time it gathered force and power over
his mind, and as the _Magnificat_ had been a revelation to Henry Martyn,
so Charles Mackenzie's affection first fixed upon the General
Thanksgiving, and on the commemoration of the departed in the prayer for
the Church Militant.

His fellow-collegians thought of him as a steady, religious-minded man,
but not peculiarly devout, and indeed the just balance of his mind made
him perceive that the prime duty of an undergraduate was industry rather
than attempts to exercise his yet unformed and uncultivated powers. In
1848 he was second wrangler. There were two prizes, called Dr. Smith's,
for the two most distinguished mathematicians of the year. The senior
wrangler's papers had the first of these; for the second, Mackenzie was
neck and neck with a Trinity College man, and the question was only
decided by the fact that Dr. Smith had desired that his own college
(Trinity) should have the preference.

After this he became tutor and fellow of his college, taking private
pupils, and at the same time preparing for Holy Orders, not only by study
of books, but by work among the poor, with whom his exceeding kindness
and intense reality gave him especial influence at all times.

He was ordained on the Trinity Sunday of 1851, and took an assistant
curacy at a short distance from Cambridge, his vigorous powers of walking
enabling him to give it full attention as well as to his pupils and to
the University offices he filled. His great characteristic seems always
to have been the tenderest kindness and consideration; and in the year
when he was public examiner, this was especially felt by the young men
undergoing an ordeal so terrible to strained and excited intellect and
nerves, when a little hastiness or harshness often destroys the hopes of
a man's youth.

With this combination of pastoral work and college life Mackenzie was
perfectly satisfied and happy, but in another year the turning-point of
his life was reached. A mission at Delhi to the natives was in prospect,
and the Rev. J. S. Jackson, who belonged to the same college with him,
came to Cambridge in search of a fellow-labourer therein. During the
conversations and consultations as to who could be asked, the thought
came upon Mackenzie, why should he strive to send f