Transcribed from the 19th century Religious Tract Society edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Public domain cover] No. 803. NARRATIVE SERIES. * * * * * THE DYING GIPSY * * * * * “Be sure your sin will find you out.” NUMB. xxxii. 23. * * * * * CONSCIENCE, say some, is a mere whim, that frightens weak minds, renders man a coward, and cuts short half his purposes. But is it not rather the candle of the Lord shining in man’s dark bosom, to bring to light the hidden wickedness of the heart; that well-known voice which gives no sound, yet will be heard—that hand often felt, though never seen? Reader! it you regard this inward monitor, (and I trust you do,) you will not then turn away from the following relation of facts. Several reports were brought to P—, of a dying gipsy, who was lying in a camp two miles off; that his mind was greatly distressed at the prospect of death, that he had offered a sum of money for a person to read to him a portion of the Bible, and that he had also offered money to a poor woman for reading to him part of the Book of Common Prayer; and further, that he had declared he could not endure the thought of dying till God had forgiven him. Not being able that day to visit him myself, I prevailed on a friend to go instead, to whom the gipsy gave an account of himself in nearly the following words:—