Thus the Gipsy lives and thus the Gipsy
dies, and is buried like a dog; his tent destroyed, and his soul flown to
another world to await the reckoning day. He can truthfully say as he
leaves his tenement of clay behind, "No man careth for my soul." Charles
Wesley, no doubt, in his day, had seen vast numbers of these wandering
English heathens in various parts of the country as he travelled about on
his missionary tour, and it is not at all improbable but that they were
in his mind when those soul-inspiring, elevating, and tear-fetching lines
were penned by him in 1748, and first published by subscription in his
"Hymns and Sacred Poems," 2 vols., 1749, the profits of which enabled him
to get a wife and set up housekeeping on his own account at Bristol.
They are words that have healed thousands of broken hearts, fixed the
hopes of the downcast on heaven, and sent the sorrowful on his way
rejoicing; and they are words that will live as long as there is a
Methodist family upon earth to lisp its song of triumph.

"Come on, my partners in distress,
My comrades through the wilderness,
Who still your bodies feel;
A while forget your griefs and fears,
And look beyond this vale of tears,
To that celestial hill.

"Beyond the bounds of time and space,
Look forward to that heavenly place,
The saints' secure abode;
On faith's strong eagle-pinions rise,
And force your passage to the skies,
And scale the mount of God.

"Who suffer with our Master here,
We shall before His face appear,
And by His side sit down;
To patient faith the prize is sure;
And all that to the end endure
The cross, shall wear the crown."

It is impossible to give anything like a correct number of Gipsies that
are outside Europe. Many travellers have attempted to form some idea of
the number, and have come to the conclusion that there were not less than
3,000 families in Persia in 1856, and in 1871 there were not less than
67,000 Gipsies in Armenia and Asiatic Turkey. In Egypt of one tribe only
there are 16,000. With regard to the number of Gipsies there are in
America no one has been able to compute; but by this time the number must
be considerable, for stragglers have been wending their way there from
England, Europe, and other parts of the world for some time.

Mikliosch, in 1878, stated that there are not less than 700,000 in
Europe. Turkey, previous to the war with Russi