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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Herald of Gospel Liberty, July 11, 1912

This was a reaction to "Pastor Russell's Newspaper Sermons." This was included in an longer article complaining that Mormon-owned newspapers would not carry paid ads for anti-Mormon pamphlets. The reference to "Patent Inside" pages was to preprinted newspaper pages sold to newspaper publishers to provide them with content at a nominal cost, about what the publisher would have to pay for blank paper alone. Herewith the article extract:

We notice, too, that Mr. Russell, the Millenial Dawnist, gets his sermons in many of these "patent insides." Think of it! We know enthusiastic members of Protestant churches who publish papers, using the "patent insides," carrying to their readers each week "a well-loaded barrel" of Russellism. Do you suppose you can find a single Russellite editor who would be carrying with his consent a sermon against Russellism? It is time for Protestant Christians to be waking up we cannot afford to swallow everything whole which may be pushed at us. Indeed we cannot, and it is time for us to begin to choose the kind of reading matter that comes into our homes each week, and even daily. It is an insult to have a big dish of Mormonism and Russellism pushed at us in every literary meal we get.


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