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 any one 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, enquiring 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 any body_. 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, while they contemptuously 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 men