Baraga asks the Bishop for advice in a matter of baptism after a premature delivery. Rev. Father Peter Kindekins had sent him a treatise about it. Baraga remembers to have heard in Carniola, his native country as well as in America, that there is no soul in the foetus and that the foetus is thrown away immediately. But if, according to the above mentioned treatise, the human embryo has a soul from the first day of conception, Baraga would like to know why such a soul should be deprived of the grace of baptism. He had never before considered that question, nor had he ever studied it nor talked with any one about it, but now he intends to speak to the women of his congregation and bind them to a baptism of a premature delivery if the foetus is alive. He asks the Bishop to answer quickly and he will obey his judgement faithfully. Another question troubles Baraga. In the Lateran Council of Pope Innocent III, 1215, it is stated in one of the Canons that if a person has not fulfilled the paschal precept he is to be kept away from the Church, and when he dies he cannot have a Christian burial. Though all his Indian missions are satisfactory in this respect, there are half-breeds and Canadians who, both in this part as well in many others, are far away from the Catholic Indians. Baraga wants to know if he should follow the above mentioned canon in its full and rigorous sense in this diocese. :: III-2-h A.L.S. Latin 2pp. 8vo