To The Editor of The Evening Mail.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 130, 2 June 1874, Page 2

To The Editor of The Evening Mail.

Sin—Tbe Church Herald is a nice paper, full of cheerful reading and so lovingly pious! It will be in tbe recollection of many of your readers what a courteous reception it accorded ihe Bishop of Neleon on his recent visit to England; in what a charitable manner it announced the demise of tbe great inductive philosopher, J. S. Mill; but perhaps tho following notice of the death of Dr. Strauss caps all its previous performances in the same line :—" Dr Strauss, the renowned German infidel, and author of the * Life of Jesus,' has gone to his account. By this time he wil! have found out tbe iruth of Christian religion, and the diabolical nature and character of intellectual unbelief. We regret to leam tbat the Princess Royal, our Queen's eldest daughter, has openly sympathised with (he departed —such sympathy bodes ill for the Christian luture of Germany. But then, poor woman, she was so badly brought up as regards religious truth that we cannot be surprised." That tbe priestly ruffians belonging to the Church Herald should thus write of Dr. Strauss is in no ways surprising, but I venture to assert that the most ultra radical journal in England would have scorned to have printed such a gratuitous and malignant insult to Her Majesty and her child. I am,&c, Vox.