The author of the letter is a Staunch, though not a bigoted Protestant. He hopes McMaster will answer his questions since his Catholic friends have been unable to do so. He believes he has detected an inconsistency between the published laws of the clerical authorities and the actions of these authorities. The Church is supposed to solennly Condemn mixed marriages and to detest and forbid them except for very grave reasons. When this happens the Church gives no nuptual blessings, no Mass, and the Ceremony cannot be within a Catholic Church. The author asks why many such mixed marriages are performed and publicized when there seems to be no grave reason for them. In the past few days he has seen a case wherein almost every rule that is supposed to govern all religious bodies, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews has been broken. The Parties were not residents of the parish, one of them was under age, no consent or knowledge of the parents was shown, no bans were publicized. No use was made of the Church building, but even this rule was publicly treated with contempt by a Catholic Bishop in Virginia who performed a mixed marriage in the Cathedral with great pomp and ceremony. He takes it for granted that McMaster has some explanation for these actions which his Roman Catholic friends do not enjoy. :: I-2-d A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.