Mother de Chantal has been surprised by the message of the latest issue of the Freeman's Journal. Her feelings are mingled with amazement and grief and she would have discredited the news had it come from any other source than the Journal. The Lord is demanding much more from McMaster this Lenten season than mere bodily mortification. Mother Chantal believes McMaster will be the person least affected by the insane step of Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes of Alton, Illinois. When people who know better find the friendly guide of a lifetime placed in the same category with Ford's vile sheet, that is proof enough that the occupant of the throne should be keeping company with Bishop James Duggan, of Chicago, Illinois. Both friends and foes of McMaster are injured by this outrageous assumption of authority and those in Alton are cut off from their only reliable source of information regarding the affairs of the Church. Those who oppose the Journal will seem to see their opposition sustained by Episcopal authority. Bishop Baltes is being utilized by someone whom McMaster has offended but he has made a tremendous blunder and must find some way to make amends. McMaster should see the matter through and make Baltes retract his statements, both for his own good and the good of others. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.