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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