By Thine own strong arm still led, Let me never backward tread, Panic-driven in base retreat, The path the Master's steadfast feet Unswervingly, if bleeding, trod Unto victory and God. The standard-bearer doth not wince, Who bears the ensigns of his prince, Through triumphs, in his galled palm, Or turn aside to look for balm? Nay, for the glory thrice outweighs The petty price of pains he pays! Till the appointed time is past Let me clasp Thy token fast. Ere I lay it down to rest, Late or early, be impressed So its stamp upon my soul That, while all the ages roll, Questionless, it may be known The Shepherd marked me for His own; Because I wear the crimson brand Of all the flock washed by His hand-- For my passing pain or loss Signed with the eternal cross. THE ENGLISH PRESS. IV. It was in January, 1785, that there appeared, for the first time, a journal with the title of _The Daily Universal Register_, the proprietor and printer of which was John Walter, of Printing House Square, a quiet, little, out-of-the-way nook, nestling under the shadow of St. Paul's, not known to one man in a thousand of the daily wayfarers at the base of Wren's mighty monument, but destined to become as famous and as well known as any spot of ground in historic London. This newspaper boasted but four pages, and was composed by a new process, with types consisting of words and syllables instead of single letters. On New Year's day, 1788, its denomination was changed to _The Times_, a name which is potent all the world over, whithersoever Englishmen convey themselves and their belongings, and wherever the mighty utterances of the sturdy Anglo-Saxon tongue are heard. It was long before the infant 'Jupiter' began to exhibit any foreshadowing of his future greatness, and he had a very difficult and up-hill struggle to wage. _The Morning Post_, _The Morning Herald_, _The Morning Chronicle_, and _The General Advertiser_ amply supplied or seemed to supply the wants of the reading public, and the new competitor for public favor did not exhibit such superior ability as to attract any great attention or to diminish the subscription lists of its rivals. _The Morning Herald_ had been started in 1780 by Parson Bate, who quarrelled with his colleagues of _The Post_. This journal, which is now the organ of mild and antiquated conservatism, was originally started upon liberal principles. Bate immediately ranged himself upon the side of the Prince of Wales and his party, and thus his fortunes were secured. In 1781 his paper sustained a prosecution, and the printer was sentenced to pay a fine of £100, and to undergo one year's imprisonment, for a libel upon the Russian ambassador. For this same libel the printers and publishers of _The London Courant_, _The Noon Gazette_, _The Gazetteer_, _The Whitehall Evening Journal_, _The St. James's Chronicle_, and _The Middlesex