to weep. She told them "that though she knew she had been a great sinner, and was one still, yet she never had felt so happy as then." The old woman observed, "that she could not say she was happy, and wished to know what she must do to feel happy." The Gipsy replied, "You must leave off selling on Sundays, and go to a place of worship, and learn to read the Testament, and to pray, and then you will become happy."

This poor Gipsy woman, who was so anxious to instruct those she had many times deceived, was soon after taken sick, at which time her distress of soul was very great; and she then said, were she to die, her soul could not go to heaven.”

Many were her temptations, while in great poverty, to renew the practice of fortune-telling. Several genteel parties have visited her, and sometimes offered her gold, tempting her to begin again the sins she had for ever given up; but much to her credit, she at all times resolutely refused all such unholy gain.

At one time some very gay young women called on her, desiring to have their fortunes told. Her Testament lay on the table, which she had but a short time before been reading, and pointing to it, she said, That book, and that only, will tell your fortunes; for it is God's book; it is his own word. She reproved them. for their sin, and said, "The Bible had told her, all unrighteousness is sin." They then requested "she "would not tell the author that they had called upon her."

She replied, Oh! you fear man more than God?

A few days since, this reformed woman was sweeping the pavement in front of her house, when two female servants came up, inquiring for the house of the fortune-teller ;* mourning over them for their folly she said, My dears, she cannot tell your fortunes. I have been a professed fortune-teller, and have deceived hundreds. She succeeded in persuading them to go home.

At a meeting of Gipsies held at a gentleman's house, Jan. 1830, the youngest child of this woman said to her mother, Mammy, who be all these folks? The mother replied, They are Gipsies. Was I ever like 'em? asked the child. Yes, said the mother, you was once a poor little Gipsy, without stockings and shoes, and glad to beg a halfpenny of anybody. It is a circumstance not to be lamented, that the condition even of a little child has been so much bettered by the exertions of the Committee.

In addition to the encouragement afforded us by this woman, giving up with so much decision the practice of fortune-telling, the author must not forget to mention an instance of her forbearance of temper under provocation and outrage. She had, when a vagrant, a quarrel with some of her ignorant people of another tribe. Meeting with them after her reformation, she was severely beaten by them, and had her ear-drops torn from her ears, and they contemptuously

* A house dweller, not a Gipsy.

called her Methodist.

When asked " why she did not bring her persecutors to justice," she replied, How can I be forgiven if I do not forgive? That is what my Testament tells me.

The young widow we have before mentioned continued to tell fortunes for some time after we had taken her children; but it pleased the Holy Spirit to awaken her conscience, and to show her the wickedness of such crimes, by which she was led to true repentance and reformation of character.

After the death of both the children of this interesting individual, she went into the service of a kind and pious lady in London. For this situation she was prepared by one, of equal benevolence, in Southampton, who had her for some time in her own house for that purpose. She continued in this situation till the lady's death, and has since been in other service, where she has conducted herself so well as to prove she is become a sincere servant of Christ. She is respected by her present employer.

CHAP. VI.

Some Remarks on the Sin of Fortune-telling.

THE author will be pardoned, he is willing to hope, by the kind reader, if he digress in one or two paragraphs, in this part of his work, purposely to expose the great wickedness of prognostication and fortunetelling; as the whole is not only unsound, foolish, absurd, and false, but is most peremptorily forbidden in the Scriptures.

In the law of Moses it is commanded, that there should not be found among the people, any that used divination, or that was an observer of the times, or that was an enchanter: Deut. xiii. 10. In the prophecies of Malachi, the Lord has declared, Thou shalt have no more soothsayers: Mal. v. 12. Balaam and Balak were cursed of the Lord of Hosts; the former for using enchantments, and the latter for employing Balaam in this wicked work. Woe to them that deThose who employ un

vise iniquity: Micah ii. 1. happy Gipsy women, should think on the portion of the liar: Rev. xxi. 8: for the person who tempts another to utter falsehood by offering rewards, is equally guilty before God. A companion of fools shall be destroyed: Prov. xiii. 20. Though hand join in hand, in sin, the wicked shall not go unpun

ished: Prov. xvi. 5. The destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together: Isai. i. 28. It may be safely affirmed that the sin of those persons, who trifle with Gipsy women in having their fortunes told by them, bears some resemblance to that of the first king of Israel; who, by consulting in his trouble a wicked woman who pretended to supernatural power, filled up the measure of those sins, by which he lost the protection of heaven, his crown, and his life, and by which he involved his family in the most ruinous calamity.

Reader, have you encouraged any of these people in such crimes? If you have so far forgotten yourself, the commands of God, and the curse that awaits you, and those who deceive themselves in the same way; reflect, before it be too late, on the evil into which you have willingly, wilfully, and without the least reasonable excuse, fallen; and, on the guilt that must of necessity attach to your conscience thereby. Should you never meet those you encouraged to sin in this world, and therefore never have an opportunity of warning them of their danger, yet must you meet at the bar of Christ; and if then loaded with the weight of the sin in question, how awful will be your condition! Yourself and a fellow-creature turned out for ever from God, and heaven, and hope! You may find mercy now, if you by faith in the Redeemer seek for it; and who can tell but if you sincerely pray for those you led into sin, but that the mercy of which you par