... back to the third century BC, when Alexander the Great's soldiers defeated King Porus' elephant-borne troops in the IndusValley. Gerald Conti,"Seeing the Elephant,"Civil War Times Illustrated, (33 June 1984), 19. Today some of our "elephants" and "owls" are not quite so ... God. The first century church, waiting for the eschaton and persecuted by the secular powers, sang and made melodies to the Lord. Bill Irwin is a 50-year-old blind recovering alcoholic. He is also now a member of an elite club: the AT "thru ...