The Indian Advocate. (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 3, Ed. 1, Sunday, July 1, 1894 Page: 6 of 24
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE.
you will be pleased with her; she is a
pretty girl eighteen years old. You
will bo proud to have her walking with
you." And thus speaking fchejr came
to a little house. The good woman told
her relations how she had found a god-
father for her child and they compli-
mented her on her good fortune. Some
of those present thought they had seen
him before. c
So they walked to the Church the
king giving his arm to the pretty god-
mother; and every one said: "How
lucky the wife of Jean-Paul is to have
found such a godfather for her child!"
When the cure came to the baptis-
mal font he was astonished at the
undressed suit of the godfather though
he noticed his refined manners. "It
is not the custom" said he to his
beadle " for a gentleman to come to a
baptism in an undress suit but it does
not matter much." And he began the
holy ceremony.
When the baptism was finished and
the gospel of St. John had been read
over the head of the child they all
went to the sacristy.
"What is the name of the godfather?"
said the cure.
The king had not thought of this and
felt a little confused.
"What can I do?" he thought "to
keep my incognito? I must answer the
cure and not lie. What can I say? If
I say Bourbon Charles they will know
me."
Meanwhile the cure was waiting.
"Your name if you please?"
"King; that is it Mr. King."
"Your Christian name?"
"Charles."
When the certificate was written the
pen was passed around to the witnesses
many of them making a rough cross. It
was given to the king. At that moment
a man who until then appeared absorbed
by thoughts and doubts went to the
father of the child and whispered some-
thing in his ear ....
"It is the king!"
"The king! the king! exclaimed
those around.
"The king!" said the old cure drop-
ping his hands on the table and his
head backwards. . . . "Sir forgive
me! . . . . What an honor for my
Church for me for all these good
people! Ah I if we had known it . . .
we would have received you at the
door with a canopy and the cross as
they do at the Notre Dame when your
majesty goes to assist at some religious
ceremony."
"The king!" said all again.
And there was much wondering and
asking of questions.
How did it happen that the king was
the godfather of the child of Jean-Paul?
Where did his wife find him? What an
honor for herself and her child! Surely
the latter would be fortunate. When
one has the King of France for a
godfather they will be something ser-
geant or clerk in some office. . . . But
who would have thought that the old
gentleman with a gray cap was the
king! It is very strange how a king
looks like another man!
"Well I suspected it a little" said
an old peasant. "I have seen him
sometimes dressed as he is now on the
road to Villeneuve-l'Etang where he
goes to see Madame la Dauphine."
"Sire" said respectfully the euro
taking up the pen with trembling hand
"I must write then on the certificate
of baptism Mr. King?"
"Yes the King of France" replied
Charles X. "you see I told you the
truth; and for the name of the child
you know it Charles."
In sickness we ought to ask God to
give us patience because it often
happens that when a man gets well
he not only does not do the good he pro-
posed to do when he was sick but he
multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.
St. Philip Neri.
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The Indian Advocate. (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 3, Ed. 1, Sunday, July 1, 1894, newspaper, July 1, 1894; Sacred Heart Mission, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc69755/m1/6/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.