Arizona republican., 1895-06-11
PREACHED TO PRINTERS.
Elder Matlock's Sunday Night
 Talk to the Trade.
The Lessons of Eternity Taught in the Language of the Craft to the
 Craftsmen of Phoenix.


 church, solidi6ed himself with the printing fraternity of Phoenix on Sun day night. He was solid for that mat ter before, but now he is more solid. He preached a sermon to the printers. He knew how to do it because he used to be printer himself and is &C., quainted not only with the technique of the trade but with the trials and temptations which printers alone are called upon to bear or meet.
 The sermon was suggested by the re- cent death of Grant Hendricks, the printer. whose sermon was preached by the elder, who then announced the character of the Sunday evening ser vice. The Christian church was crowded as it had never been crowded before. All the printers in town were there though they necessarily constr. tuted only small part of the audi ence. To those unacquainfed with the technical language of the craft con- siderable part of the sermon must have been unintelligible though its general character was understood and appre- ciated by all.
 Among the themes of the evening was justification. Justification is one thing to printers and something else to those who are not. Printers, said the preacher, Justify" lines and galieys and the foreman ''justifies" the forms, and with all this justification the paper shows perfect page. So, he said, are the incidents in the lives of men to be justified and the work itself to be after. ward justified by the great Foreman, otherwise the lives become a meaning less blot.
 The distribution" of type, that great and needful preparation for compost tion, was introduced in the text "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirl- wind" The distribution" may be carelessly performed or not. If care lessly done the printer is handicapped by ''dirty case," from which he sets @ "dirty" galley and makes business for the proof reader, who in turn makes business for the printer, who is kept busy rustling galleys all night, so con. tributing to that dilatory performance known and cursed by foreman as sticking the sheet." On the other hand, the printer with a clean "case'' enjoys an immunity from the wrath oi J the proof reader and is enabled to earn ''long string"
 The distribution in the lives of men should consist in not sowing the wind ol wild oats, but good deeds. This makes g "clean case" The great Proofreade1 need not disfgure the proof sheet and the wise and fortunate distributor is given a long string for eternity.
 So the sermon abounded in figures Of the trade, each one employed to teach an eternal lesson, which strongly i'm
 pressed the hearers. The printers had ; in fact heard nothing new, but they heard it in new way.
 The sermon was subject of favora- ! ble comment among them yesterday , One man said "I hadn't been to church for four years but l intend now to } infest that little Christian church every
 Sunday night" The sentiment was generally echoed. Printers as rule are not church goers. They have be. fore them for nightly perusal the say ings of spiritual editors, the disquisi :; tions of saintly reporters and the in. LerpTeGatlOus Ol ROuiy leicSTd pu eultole 30 that they naturally feel that the ' hour spent in church is a waste of time
 But Elder Matlock showed them that the hour is not necessarily one of servi tude but a period of instruction and : recreation.
 He won his way too by the exhibition during the serman of 8 printers rule
 which he had carried since he worked at the case. This rule became to the ; audience the similitude of the golder , rule by which the lives of men should be measured.
 There was an appropriately arranged , musical program, the most important feature of which was an admirably
 rendered solo at the opening of the ser vice by Miss Weldon. who now shares with Elder Matlock, the admiration o . the printers of Phoenix.