The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-09-22
MORAL TYPE SETTING
Sermon Of the Rev. W. E. Hall to the
Printers Union Of ST. Louis,
Sunday, September l6.
The Art Preservative of All Arts "---
The Worlds Star Lighters All
Are Type Settlers.

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From the dome Of the Western Union office,
St. Louis seems to be the centre Of a mighty
spider Of telegraph wires, each thrilling and
trembling with the rushing waves Of vital
thought crowding to be delivered by nimble
fingers and spread upon the white sheets from
which, through hungry eyes, they climb up to
nestle or disport themselves in the thought
cells Of other human brains. Pean after pean
ofpraise has been sung to the mind that gave
birth to this splendid hand maid Of human
progress, but as yet no collocation Of adjec.
lives has been devised by the worlds polished
literature commensurate with its grandness.
From the dome Of our great Union depot,
as the eye sweeps the circle OF Its range, we
see at every point Of the compass Numbering
along the shining rails the smoking locomotive
moving as the advancing crest Of a wave along
the steel clad arteries, from the beat Of the
commercial heart of our great metropolis.
All we shall ever wonder at their utility and
power and Join an enthusiastic world in the
anthem 1t sings to this triumph OF
in advance Of practice; as the rays OF a
head light must ever flash ahead Of the engine,
so running ahead Of these splendid triumphs
OF applied science is that diffusion OF kuowl-
edge that makes such successes possible.
Therefore, as the printing press is the difluser
OF knowledge, /, is Logical to place far above
all other inventions that one-the click of
whose revolutions works the pulsations Of the
worlds intellectual heart. 1t is above the
others for 1t subordinates them to its uses
riding in kingy majesty along the one, and
extor,ing from the other at midnight the
SECRETS OF a DAY
to lay at every mans door when he rises in
the morning. Therefore, let the grandest
anthem be sung TO the last oil the three great
sisters. 1t has been beautifully said that at
every fall Of twilight God sends out his
angels to light up the stars. Light is beau
tiiul emblem of knowledge darkness repre-
sents ignorance. Shall then say, the print
ers are the worlds star lightersS 1t is their
invaluable art that makes the intellectual con-
stellations flash and sparkle along our moral
zodiac. They attend upon the birth Of
thought and deliver ii into the world Of letters.
OF what practical value would an unborn
thought be 10 mankind at large? Forever,
therefore, must the realm in which they rule
be OF value and dignity before the world.
They throw into the great lake OF the
worlds mind those pebbles which oratorical,
poetical and philosophical lapidares have
polished, that ripples of thought might rise
upon each other and ride to the farther shore
Of human sensibility. They are the mound
builders for generations yet remote, storing
away the facts, forms Of thought and rude in
ventions flor will not ours be rude to that
other age?), for them to unearth and wonder
OF. Their art has truly been called the "art
preservative Of arts" They make men inn
mortal, for they make men live in the world
after they are dead. Let us here all agree
that the printers calling is covered with dig
nifty. There are few men, taken as a class,
who are more intelligent than printers-both
as to literature and a knowledge Of the world
Type setting stands to him as academy, col
lege and university.
THE EXPRRINcED TYPO
generally has taken a course in all depart
ments Of human learning, for his composition
covers philosophy, theology and Belle Let
tres. He is an orthographist by necessity for
his business is building up and tearing down
words; he is an adept in syntax for it is his
daily food; he is an extensive reader in all de-
partments Of human learning Tor he must first
get sentence into his head before il will
drop from his fingers into type. Therefore,
he walks constantly through all the halls Of
human learning and Is familiar with its every
nook and corner. Hence, 1t is but to be ex.
pected that some Of the most brilliant stars in
The intellectual galaxy have come from the
printers case into leadership of The worlds
thought. need not mention Greeley and
Franklin and brigades OF others.
inc printer, 100, is cosmopoiieIa
thoIoueh man OF inc world Contact with the
woru gives man a knowieee OF me most
tnorousn ana valuaDls character lhousands
OF men VINO are P0ns sn., IN cohege unni me
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experience But while ms calling has many
nonoIs, mere are some olsadvan,ages' some
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quenI use OF sumnlenis and renee the EVIL OF
a.ss'pa,lons WIN orev'ty o, me- absence from
nome loss OIL mother influence; ana on ae-
COUNT G OF ue mature Oh MS WORK abstinence
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