the wayside with her basket, after walking and toiling all day, and not having taken a penny with which to provide the Sunday’s dinner, when at the last extremity Providence has opened her way and friends have appeared upon the scene, and she has been enabled to “go on her way rejoicing,” and for the last twenty years she has been trying to do all the good she can, and to day she is not one penny the loser, but, on the other hand, a gainer, by following such a course. Personally, I have received much encouragement and valuable information at her hands to help me in my work to do the Gipsy children good in one form or other. I have frequently called to see the grand old Gipsy woman, sometimes unexpectedly, and when I have done so I have either found her reading the Bible or else it has been close to her elbow. Its stains and soils betoken much wear and constant use. Very different to the old woman who put her spectacles into her Bible as she set it upon the clock, and lost them for more than seven years. She is a firm believer in prayer; in fact, it seems the very essence of her life, and she can relate numbers of instances when and where God has answered her petitions. On her bed-quilt are the following texts of scripture, poetry, &c., which, as she says, these, with other portions of God’s word, she “has learnt to read without any other aid except His Holy Spirit:”—“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falleth.” “But whoso hath this world’s goods and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” “All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive.” “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, He leadeth me beside the still waters.” “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.” “I am the door; by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.” “Let nothing be done through strife, but in lowliness of mind; let each esteem others better than themselves.” “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” “Wives submit yourselves unto your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.” “Husbands love your own wives and be not bitter against them.” “Children obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.” “Fathers provoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged.” “Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye service as man pleases, but in singleness of heart