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Show the j-olutlon of the calendar. In hU i!ky there were many day cf cvunt-Ini: cvunt-Ini: time. He it was who fiel th year as o27 A. D. and settled the cal-crdar cal-crdar of the Christian era. Wty v. ars latr It n the calendar of western Europe, and though Russia did not yield to it for 1.2on yearn. It hiv become the one tied date for all nation. Wo know- of n greater example ex-ample of three self made men in any one, city ajid place than these thre, but nevertheless when wo think of this man Elijah and remember his environment en-vironment we confess that we are b- I lore the jjreattst example of what ono man can attain unto that this old j world knows. Y-u s.ay jou do Dvt j think io at all, do you? Well, just try l.Kiay with all the aids of the many and strength kIvIdk helpa thl age U heir to. to llvw for one week so near f!ol that you can be .-aid to stand In his presence and you will chanso your rnlnd. The man who says the relltfouA life of the Chrls-t'an Chrls-t'an today Is u weak life I- the man w-ho has never for one day. uay for one hour even, tried It. It Is the largest life today. iSEP;K BY m. J01 f. CMtVERi i 1 The evening Fervlce In tho FirKt ! I're-t'Vterian church was nr-'fac-d by , 1 a pcod Musical prrvram. af' r whi.h, j In !h" ev. iiii..; b( riiior). Kev. Carver , , sail in part: j "God ot the Queen Clot'da. Kive ne tl.i- battlo." cri"d CUjU 1 Now Cl ! Mh was Uii'K of what we n Vtiow ; a.-. Tnirce I pun 11 to 11. Much of ' tho present Kreatn. of Yynucc i ! duo t. the rltie- .md t-oun iaries whlci '. h.. founded and e,t b'.l.-hed. lie choos . T.irU lor his capital In .'.:. CloviJ J wus of tdolltroiM ancesliy, but In I'-' 1 be Lad m:rri. d Cl.ittda. dauUr f j tLe line of IterKiiody. and wa au ardent ChrUnan. Her faith and truth, her love and allegiance Rreat-lv Rreat-lv Impressed Clovl-, and "hen In a hard pr-x.-'-d situation In tho battle 1 cf Talbloc ho cried out, "God of Qurtn Clotilda, jdvo (no the battle " A;ln and acaln his lollowerx hearl alovo the din of hattli that cry rlnc-lmc rlnc-lmc In tones of supplication. Clovli won that tattle and In tlncerlty h'- .-ouht to be true to his new Divine T ader. He called his chief warriors and bin mini.-ters of state tr.(fether nnd persuaded mcft of them to bo-ri bo-ri mo Christians nnd on Cbristma" I day of '."J he and they wore bap-j bap-j tieil. Tht!s throucu a vx.man's piety, ' faith and loyalty did France become a Christian Mate. "God ot Sir Isaac Now ton. have ' mercy on me." cried the55rifrnostlc , Nicholas Saunderon as he lay uiin hU doaih bed. Saunderson was the n:ost noti-d EnKlinh mathematician of hN day. He was on vd the Kreato.it. UcturerK upon abtruHe mathematical mathemati-cal formullat Carr.bridce t-er knew. H wfi blind from bis Infancy an I ! by shrvr pf.wer r.f will had dlmlx-d t.) bis pinnacle of fame. He greatly ( admired Sir Inao Newton and was au earnest deotf e to all that ho ut-j ut-j tered nnd did s:vo In relkiotts thine, j Kut cn his death bed ho remomher-: remomher-: t-ci airesh I he loyal faith nnd deep love rf Newton lor his God. and ' knowing no other way to address lilm I called him the God of Sir Isaac New-i New-i ton. These two men are but two more-1 more-1 historic characters to do In their day that which Kllsha did In his time. ; lor as Kllsha came to his first great conflict of faith he called upon the j ' God of Elijah." Klljah had made Je-j Je-j bovah to be so known, bad followed 1dm so closely, had so .stood in his presence and been tho minister of his j power that his faith and character I made others call uin the God of Kll-I Kll-I Jah. I can but wonder liow many I of our a.ssoclutes in home, oKlcc, I school or shop so clve our assori-I assori-I ates and claborers the Inipreuslon that we are yervlnn a true God that they will thlnL of him as a God to be desired. You will recall tb.it when the disciples were arrested their cap- t.-ra and Jirriees and nccusers bavlni; I eard much about their Rr.-at work in I Jerusalem naturally expected to I'md i them men of education and culture. Ion Luke tells us In the Hook of the Acts, "When they perceived that they vere Icnornnt and unlearned men they r arveled and they took knowledge f tht ni that they had boon w 1th Irsus." Seeloc them they thought of their ChrUt. and s-o feoinc us the orld win judi;e Hnd like or dllike. k 'k or shun tuir (iod. If w e aro morose r complaJnluf;. If w. are ever complaining or soring the dark side of life. If wo have &?eminir,ly for- ; gotten tho moanlns; of Joy or the en-rourasinc en-rourasinc power of sympathetic cheors, they will Judge our religion our God our Christ by us. The more vve have meditated upon this life of Klljah the more wonderful wonder-ful does It seem to u.s that in that-darkest that-darkest hour of Israels history ono man could have dared to try to do so much. As Is ever the case with all human life, the Rreat battles and rno-nonts rno-nonts of his life wore bidden, secret Oiios. Ho cornea before us full grown with only one rlbt to entitle him to cur notleo or to power, and that was t'aat he stood ever In the presence of Jehovah. Rut how in that dark day and place he hal managed to live so ttue to God. havlnsr nelthor Rlble nor temple nor religious companions to aid him, wo cannot tell; we do know that the simple fact that be did It pets our growth In grace to shame, for we have a completed word, a ncodly fellowship and a needy service serv-ice to aid us In our spiritual growth. There have ben creat exomples of what an aim und a will can do and co what heights one wl'h their aid can Dttaln; the jear "i2'i saw three wondrous won-drous examples of aim and perseverance perse-verance attaining what seemingly was liuiwifl-dblc. Rome then was ruled by Justinian the preatost of all her later lat-er emperors. He was a self rnado n an. who, throuch long struccle, bad come to the blch throne of state, and even higher place as law ulver for nations. na-tions. Helisarlu! was the p-eat general, encamped then outside the walls. H-v.as H-v.as one of th very greatest military mili-tary leaders the world has seen, a Ilf c" titanic struggles and wars with all the great peoples of his day and usually with s!ronger armies than bis own. and yet in all his life be lost but one battle. And Helisarius was a self mode man Hut within ono I of Rome's small convents that year was a third man self taught and one who had struggled from the lowest Mcp to the top al-o. You honor him every day; so does most every ono In all the civilized world, for he, 'Dlony-suis 'Dlony-suis "the less,' gave a lifetime to |