Identifier: storyofourchrist00bird (find matches)
Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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infancythrough the folly of those to whom they were entrusted. Old Henry, who wantedan heir—no peevish boy, nor whimpering, whining girl—insisted that hisdaughter, during her throes of labor, should sing an old song of the country •and so she did, not omitting one of the many stanzas. Then he gave her a goldbox containing his will, and took away the child. Its lips were rubbed with gar-lic, a few drops of Gascon wine put in its mouth ; at this it raised its head andswallowed them eagerly. Ha! the king cried, thou shalt be a true Bearnois!The boy was brought up in the mountains after the customs of the country,with the peasants and like a peasant. Thus trained for future tasks, he grewstrong and active. Gay and handsome, precocious and attractive, much of hischildhood was spent at the French court. In 1565, when he was eleven, he over-heard a conference between the regent and the infamous Duke of Alva, whoadvised the taking off of the chief Huguenots; for one salmon, said he, is
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ASSASSINATION OF GUISE, BY JEAN PELTROT. 377 378 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. worth a hundred frogs. The boy took care that his mother should hear of this,and she never forgot the warning. At thirteen he returned to her, popular,accomplished, almost fall grown. A magistrate wrote: I shall hate the newreligion all my life for having carried him off from us. Two astrologers heredeclare that he will some day be one of the greatest kings of Europe, His gifts were soon to be needed. Dreading the continual intrigues of PhilipII., Coligny hatched a plot to seize the young king at Meaux; it miscarried, anda second civil war began. Conde marched on Paris, and on November ioth,1567, met a force much larger than his own in the indecisive battle of St. Denis,in which the old Constable Montmorency was mortally wounded. The sultansambassador, seeing how well the Huguenots fought, exclaimed: If my masterhad six thousand men like these, he could conquer all Asia. To gain time, theregent made peace

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