Allen thanks Brownson for the interest he has taken in getting his paper in good shape. Mrs. Allen returned from the East yesterday and his plans for an afternoon's leisure broken up, they called on Father B. Baldi O.S., the new superior of the Servites, who confirmed Brownson's opinion of the Millenium unhesitatingly and said it was a heresy. So he has Brownson to thank for preserving him from having to read a public recantation of heretical tenets and of being perhaps considered as the promoter of a new heresy. From the first he did not like his allusion to the Millenium. He has changed it in a way which is sound in theology and better in every way. Regarding the "different words" point, he has it right now and merely changed it to read, "It is forbidden, where it is possible to avoid it, to sing different words at the same time". He has not heard as much Palestrina music as Brownson, but what he has looked at does not contain fugues but only imitations and fugato passages and the words as a rule come together. Certainly they always come so as not to disturb the sense of the text. In saying "at the same time", he means, of course, simultaneously. With reference to "Hymno dic to", Allen will let it all stand. For 1 the burden of proof would lie on any one objecting to the idea of our Lord joining in with His disciples. The text says, "Having sung a hymn, they went"; 2 we know that Jesus always complied, with perfect humility, with all the usual Jewish customs, such as circumcision, presentation in the temple, etc. Why should he not join His disciples in the usual Song of Praise at the Pasch? We really cannot imagine Him as sitting still while His disciples sung; 3 Father Alfred Young takes for granted in the Catholic World that He did sing. Allen has changed the "essential" point somewhat, but will work at it more. In his "picture" the lights, processional cross, procession, the singing of the Preface all show that he is speaking of the solemn form of High Mass. He gives the change he made and also gives the "Millenium" paragraph as he has changed it. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 7pp. 8vo.