tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44606936016259285662024-03-13T10:57:18.774-07:00Alcoholics Anonymous HistoryDick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.comBlogger543125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-43347287403648995362015-08-31T14:58:00.003-07:002015-08-31T14:58:48.643-07:00A reply to a "critique" of my article about Christ in the Big Book<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".aj.1:5:1:$comment957004891022593_957406860982396:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".aj.1:5:1:$comment957004891022593_957406860982396:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".aj.1:5:1:$comment957004891022593_957406860982396:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text0:0">John, in reply to your response to the article I posted titled "Christ, the Cross, and the Holy Ghost in the Big Book? Yep.", I have some questions and comments for you: (1) When you spoke of "you people," to whom were you referring? (2) You spoke of "the first 164 pages." Could you please provide your definition of the phrase "the basic text" as it is used: (a) on the front cover of the dust jacket of the hardback fourth edition of <em>Alcoholics Anonymous</em>; (b) on page xi of the Preface in the fourth edition of <em>Alcoholics Anonymous</em>; and (c) on page 17 of the Foreword in <em>Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions</em>? (3) You spoke of "Your opinions" (i.e., my "opinions"). I provided 18 footnotes in my article, some of which contained multiple sources for the statements I made. Please identify my "opinions" to which you alluded. (4) You mentioned "the original program of Alcoholics Anonymous." The "original program of Alcoholics Anonymous"--as of late February 1938--was summarized in seven points on page 131 of the A.A. General Service Conference-approved book <em>DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</em>. (5) You claimed: "Your premise that earlier, unused versions of Bill's Story should now be given the prominence and treatment of the original is flawed." Your asserting that that is what I did is not the same as proving that that is what I did. I made no such claim. My article provided A.A. history-related facts for which I provided the sources. (6) Your claim that "Just as gold is refined by removing the impurities found in common ore, Bill's Story was refined by removing immaterial items that distracted from the primary purpose of recovery from alcoholism." is your unproved assertion. It is an analogy. It is no more valid in this case that the analogy summed up in that old "saw": "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." (7) You said: "Is yours or anyone's sobriety improved by gratuitously injecting a Christian angle into the program . . . " implying that I was "guilty" of "gratuitously injecting a Christian angle into the program." I provided A.A. history-related facts and documented those facts with sources. Your implying that something is a fact doesn't make it so. (8) You stated: "If all that extraneous information regarding Bill Wilson's experience with Christianity was crucial to recovery from alcoholism, don't you think they would have included it in the original publication?" Your statement implied that "Bill Wilson's experience with Christianity" was "extraneous information." And you referenced "the original publication." I provided A.A. history-related facts and related documentation concerning information A.A. cofounder Bill W. himself provided in his personal testimony (i.e., "Bill's Story") in chapter one of <em>Alcoholics Anonymous</em> ("the Big Book"). Let the readers of this post judge from the following statement made by Bill W. whether Bill believed that his "experience with Christianity" was "extraneous information": "I am always glad to say privately that some of the Oxford Group presentation and emphasis upon the Christian message saved my life." [Source: The A.A. General Service Conference-approved book, <em>'PASS IT ON</em>,' 171]. (9) You put forward the possibility (you said: "It is possible that . . .") that Bill W.'s ". . . his intent was to spread the solution, recovery from alcoholism through "God as we understood Him," . . " A.A.'s solution for overcoming the problem of alcoholism ""is stated clearly on page 25 of the chapter titled "There Is a Solution," chapter two in the fourth edition of <em>Alcoholics Anonymous</em>: "The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves." (10) You stated "Perhaps . . ." and then ". . . I think not." Those words are not statements of fact. Here is a statement of fact from the mouth of A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob as found in ". . . Dr. Bob's last major talk, as transcribed from a recording made at Detroit, Mich., in December 1948"--as found in the A.A. General Service Conference-approved pamphlet <em>The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major Talks</em> on page 13 " (Item # P-53): "In early A.A. days, . . . our stories didn't amount to anything to speak of. When we [A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob] started in on Bill D. ["Alcoholic Anonymous Number Three"], we had no Twelve Steps, either; we had no Traditions. But we were convinced that the answer to our problems was in the Good Book." And in that same talk, Dr. Bob also stated: "It wasn't until 1938 that the teachings and efforts and studies that had been going on were crystalized in the form of the Twelve Steps. . . . We already had the basic ideas []of the Twelve Steps, though not in terse and tangible form. We got them, as I said, as a result of our study of the Good Book." [<em>The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous</em>, 14.] Those are facts, not opinions. As stated in the "Foreword to Fourth Edition" in <em>Alcoholics Anonymous</em>: ". . . our literature has preserved the integrity of the A.A. message, . . ." Ken B.</span></span></span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-53856077727775508052015-08-31T06:58:00.002-07:002015-08-31T06:58:35.732-07:00Christ, the Cross, and the Holy Ghost in the Big Book? Yep.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Did you know that there have been at least five (5) versions of A.A. cofounder Bill W.’s personal testimony known as “Bill’s Story” in the current (fourth, 2001) edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(“the Big Book”)?<o:p></o:p><br />
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A number of people have pointed to Bill W.’s mention of Christ in the current (fourth, 2001) edition of the Big Book:<o:p></o:p></div>
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To Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claimed Him. His moral teaching—most excellent. For myself, I had adopted those parts which seemed convenient and not too difficult; the rest I disregarded.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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But they have often failed to note several important points relating to Bill’s comment about Christ: (1) The context of Bill’s statement; (2) Bill’s Christian upbringing and the Christian training he experienced in common with Ebby T. at Burr and Burton Seminary during Bill’s senior year there (1912-1913); and (3) Bill’s life experiences up to the time of his late-November 1934 meeting with his old school friend Ebby.<o:p></o:p><br />
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As to the context of Bill’s statement, on page eight, Bill discusses his release from Towns Hospital after his third stay there in September 1934 for treatment of alcoholism by Dr. Silkworth. He then moves on to “the end of that bleak November [in 1934],” when he received a telephone call from his “old school friend,” Ebby T. And Bill continues writing about his late-November 1934 interaction with Ebby until page 13, at which point Bill moves on to discuss his fourth and final stay “at the hospital” for treatment of alcoholism by Dr. Silkworth—an event which took place from December 11-18, 1934, at Towns Hospital. His discussion of his interaction with Ebby and his (Bill’s) thoughts about that meeting occupy about one-third of “Bill’s Story.” His reunion with Ebby and what they discussed made up a very important part of what Bill hoped to get across through his story about A.A.’s proposed solution for overcoming the problem of alcoholism.<o:p></o:p><br />
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As to Bill W.’s Christian upbringing, see, for example: Dick B.’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.dickb.com/theconversionofbillw.shtml"><span style="color: white;">The Conversion of Bill W.: More on the Creator's Role in Early A.A.</span></a></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: white;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> As to some of the Christianity in Ebby’s upbringing and family, see Mel B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ebby</i><span style="color: white;">.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> And as to Bill’s life experiences up to the time of his meeting with his friend Ebby, it is important to remember that—despite Bill’s Christian upbringing—after the unexpected death of his Burr and Burton Seminary school mate, and “girl friend,” Bertha Bamford, in November 1912 during Bill’s senior year at Burr and Burton, Bill blamed God for Bertha’s death and turned his back on God. And, with the exception of Bill’s brief-but-profound spiritual experience with God at <a href="http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2015/08/bill-ws-experience-at-winchester.html"><span style="color: white;"><strong>Winchester Cathedral</strong></span></a> in England in August 1918 on his way to fight in France during World War I, he had not really thought much about God since. That is, until Dr. Silkworth had discussed with Bill during Bill’s third stay at Towns Hospital for treatment of alcoholism in September 1934 that <a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/AA-Dr-William-D-Silkworth-and-the-Great-Physician.shtml"><span style="color: white;">the Great Physician (Jesus Christ)</span></a> could cure Bill of his alcoholism<span style="color: white;">.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> And then, about two months later, his friend Ebby showed up sober at Bill and Lois’s house at 182 Clinton St. in Brooklyn talking about how he (Ebby) had been saved (Ebby said, “I’ve got religion<span style="color: white;">.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="color: white;">)</span> and that God had done for him what he could not do for himself.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let’s look at an earlier version of Bill W.’s discussion of Christ found in “W. G. Wilson’s Original Story,” an account which would seem to be the earliest version of what has come to be known as “Bill’s Story” in the Big Book. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Late one afternoon near the end of that month of November I sat alone in the kitchen of my home. As usual, I was half drunk and enough so that the keen edge of my remorse was blunted. . . . Just as I was trying to decide whether to risk concealing one of the full ones within easy reach of my side of the bed, the phone rang. <o:p></o:p></div>
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. . . Over the wire came the voice of an old school friend and drinking companion of boom times. By the time we had exchanged greetings, I sensed that he was sober. This seemed strange, for it was years since anyone could remember his coming to New York in that condition. I had come to think of him as another hopeless devotee of Bacchus. Current rumor had it that he had been committed to a state institution for alcoholic insanity. I wondered if perhaps he had not just escaped. Of course he would come over right away and take dinner with us. A fine idea that, for I then would have an excuse to drink openly with him. . . . <o:p></o:p></div>
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The door opened and there he stood, very erect and glowing. His deep voice boomed out cheerily - the cast of his features - his eyes - the freshness of his complexion - this was my friend of schooldays. There was a subtle something or other instantly apparent even to my befuddled perception. Yes - there was certainly something more - he was inexplicably different - what had happened to him? <o:p></o:p></div>
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"Not now", he said. I was a little crest fallen at this, though I was glad to know that someone could refuse a drink at that moment - I knew I couldn't. "On the wagon?" - I asked. He shook his head and looked at me with an impish grin. <o:p></o:p></div>
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"No, he's not himself - he's somebody is else - not just that either - he was his old self, plus something more, and maybe minus something". I couldn't put my finger on it - his whole bearing almost shouted that something of great import had taken place. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So I finally blurted out "That's fine", and sat back waiting for a sizzling blast on salvation and the relation of the Cross, the Holy Ghost, and the Devil thereto. Yes, he did have that starry-eyed look, the old boy was on fire all right. Well, bless his heart, let him rant. It was nice that he was sober after all. I could stand it anyway, for there was plenty of gin and I took a little comfort that tomorrow's ration wouldn't have to be used up right then. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Old memories of Sunday School - the profit temperance pledge, which I never signed - the sound of the preacher's voice which could be heard on still Sunday mornings way over on the hillside beyond the railroad tracks, - My grandfather's quite scorn of things some church people did to him - his fair minded attitude that I should make up my mind about these things myself - his convictions that the . . . spheres really had their music - but his denial of the right of preachers to tell him how he should listen - his perfect lack of fear when he mentioned these things just before his death - these memories surged up out of my childhood as I listened to my friend. My own gorge rose for a moment to an all time high as my anti-preacher - anti-church folk sentiment welled up inside me. These feelings soon gave way to respectful attention as my former drinking companion rattled on. Without knowing it, I stood at the great turning point of my life - I was on the threshold of a fourth dimension of existence that I had doubtfully heard some people describe and others pretend to have.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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He went on to lay before me a simple proposal. It was so simple and so little complicated with the theology and dogma I had associated with religion that by degrees I became astonished and delighted. I was astonished because a thing so simple could accomplish the profound result I now beheld in the person of my friend. To say that I was delighted is putting it mildly, for I realized that I could go for his program also. Like all but a few . . . human beings I had believed in the existence of a power greater than myself. True atheists are really very scarce. It always seemed to me more difficult and illogical to be an atheist than to believe there is a certain amount of law and order and purpose underlying the universe. The faith of an atheist in his convictions is far more blind then that of the religionist for it leads inevitably to the absurd conclusion that the vast and ever changing cosmos originally grew out of a cipher, and now has arrived at its present state through a series of haphazard accidents, one of which is man himself. . . . <o:p></o:p></div>
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But this was as far as I had ever got toward the realization of God and my personal relationship to Him. My thoughts of God were academic and speculative when I had them, which for some years past had not been often. That God was an intelligence power and love upon which I could absolutely rely as an individual had not seriously occurred to me. Of course I knew in a general way what theologians claimed but I could not see that religious persons as a class demonstrated any more power, love and intelligence than those who claimed no special dispensation from God though I granted that Christianity ought to be a wonderful influence I was annoyed, irked and confused by the attitudes they took, the beliefs they held and the things they had done in the name of Christ. People like myself had been burned and whole population put to fire and sword on the pretext they did not believe as Christians did. History taught that Christians were not the only offenders in this respect. It seemed to me that on the whole it made little difference whether you were Mohammedan, Catholic, Jew, Protestant or Hotentot. You were supposed to look askance at the other fellows approach to God. Nobody could be saved unless they fell in with your ideas. I had a great admiration for Christ as a man. He practiced what he preached and set a marvelous example. It was not hard to agree in Principle with His moral teachings but like most people, I preferred to live up to some moral standard[s] but not to others. At any rate I thought I understood as well as any one what good morals were and with the exceptions of my drinking I felt superior to most Christians I knew. I might be weak in some respects but at least I was not hypocritical. So my interest in Christianity other than its teaching of moral principles and the good I hoped it did on balance was slight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I wished that<span style="color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/BillWYoungerYears.shtml"><span style="color: white;">I had been religiously trained from early childhood</span></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">[12</span>]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> that I might have the comfortable assurance about so many things I found it impossible to have any definite convictions upon. The question of the hereafter, the many theological abstractions and seeming contradictions - these things were puzzling and finally annoying for religious people told me I must believe a great many seemingly impossible things to be one of them. This insistence on their part plus a powerful desire to possess the things of this life while there was yet time had crowded the idea of the personal God more and more out of my mind as the years went by. Neither were my convictions strengthened by my own misfortunes. The great war and its aftermath seemed to more certainly demonstrate the omnipotence of the devil than the loving care of an all-powerful God <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nevertheless here I was sitting opposite a man who talked about a personal God who told me how he had found Him, who described to me how I might do the same thing and who convinced me utterly that something had come into his life which had accomplished a miracle. The man was transformed; there was no denying he had been reborn. He was radiant of something which soothed my troubled spirit as though the fresh clean wind of mountain top blowing through and through me I saw and felt and in a great surge of joy I realized that<span style="color: white;"> </span><a href="http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2015/08/bill-ws-experience-at-winchester.html"><span style="color: white;">the great presence which had made itself felt to me that war time day in Winchester Cathedral</span></a> had again returned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he continued I commenced to see myself as in as in an unearthly mirror. I saw how ridiculous and futile the whole basis of my life had been. Standing in the middle of the stage of my life's setting I had been feverishly trying to arrange ideas and things and people and even God, to my own liking, to my own ends and to promote what I had thought to be true happiness. It was truly a sudden and breath-taking illumination. Then the idea came – “The tragic thing about you is, that you have been playing God.” That was it. Playing God. Then the humor of the situation burst upon me, here was I a tiny grain of sand of the infinite shores of God’s great universe and the little grain of sand, had been trying to play God. He really thought he could arrange all of the other little grains about him just to suit himself. And when his little hour was run out, people would weep and say in awed tones—“How wonderful.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So then came the question – If I were no longer to be God than was I to find and perfect the new relationship with my creator – with the Father of Lights who presides over all ? My friend laid down to me the terms and conditions which were simple but not easy, drastic yet broad and acceptable to honest men everywhere, of whatever faith or lack thereof. He did not tell me that these were the only terms – he merely said that they were terms that had worked in his case. They were spiritual principles and rules of practice he thought common to all of the worthwhile religions and philosophies of mankind. He regarded them as stepping stones to a better understanding of our relation to the spirit of the universe and as a practical set of directions setting forth how the spirit could work in and through us that we might become spearheads and more effective agents for the promotion of God’s Will for our lives and for our fellows. The great thing about it all was its simplicity and scope. [N]o really religious persons belief would be interfered with no matter what his training. For the man on the street who just wondered about such things, it was a providential approach, for with a small beginning of faith and a very large dose of action along spiritual lines he could be sure to demonstrate the Power and Love of God as a practical workable twenty four hour a day design for living. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is what my friend suggested I do. One: Turn my face to God as I understand Him and say to Him with earnestness - complete honesty and abandon that I henceforth place my life at His disposal and direction. <span style="color: white;">forever. . . </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: white;">[</span>13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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It is intriguing to note Bill W.’s references in his personal testimony to “the blood of the Lamb;” “salvation and the relation of the Cross, the Holy Ghost;” “Christianity;” “the name of Christ,” and “Christians” that did not make it into later versions of “Bill’s Story.” But their presence in this very early—perhaps “original”—version of his personal story begins to make sense once one has an understanding of Bill W.’s and Ebby’s shared Christian experience at Burr and Burton Seminary during Bill’s senior year there in 1912-1913. During that school year: <o:p> </o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Bill and Ebby attended Burr and Burton Seminary’s required Bible study course<span style="color: white;">;</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Bill Wilson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">W. G. Wilson’s Original Story, </i>no date, typescript, Stepping Stones archive, Katonah, New York. Dick B. was given permission by the Stepping Stones archivist at the time, Paul Lang, to photocopy this unpublished manuscript. Each line in the manuscript is numbered, with the lines numbers going from 1 to 1,180. And Dick B. discussed this document in a number of his published titles, including: (1) Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, new, rev. ed./3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1992, 1995, 1998), 373 [called “Bill Wilson’s Original Story”]; (2) Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, Newton ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1992, 1998), 327-28 [called “Bill Wilson’s Original Story”]. Dick B. states in footnote 31 (on page 28) concerning this manuscript: “The author obtained a copy of this manuscript from Bill’s home at Stepping Stones during his October, 1991, visit there.” (3) Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and </i>(Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1994, 1999), 580 [called “Bill Wilson’s Original Story”]. (4) Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots and Successes </i>(San Rafael, Calif.: Paradise Research Publications, 1997), 82, fn. 1 (continued from page 81) [called “Bill Wilson’s Original Story”]; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here are two places on the Internet where (purported) reproductions of this manuscript may be seen currently: (1) </span><a href="http://silkworth.net/gsowatch/1938/manu38/manu38.htm"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://silkworth.net/gsowatch/1938/manu38/manu38.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/29/2015; and (2) “Message 6500 . . . Original draft of Bill’s Story; From: bbthumpthump . . . 5/1/2010 3:47:00 PM; </span><a href="http://silkworth.net/aahistorylovers/text/2010Messages_6185_7089.txt"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://silkworth.net/aahistorylovers/text/2010Messages_6185_7089.txt</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/28/2015.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This (purported) document—with no accompanying explanation as to where it came from—appears in several places on the Internet; e.g.: (1)<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.aa-district14.org/dl/PremanuscriptBB.pdf"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.aa-district14.org/dl/PremanuscriptBB.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/29/2015; (2) “Pre-Original Draft of Chapter 1 &amp; 2”:<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://westbalto.a-1associates.com/BIG%20BOOK%20INFO/Solution.htm"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://westbalto.a-1associates.com/BIG%20BOOK%20INFO/Solution.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/29/2015; and (3) “‘There Is A Solution’ &amp; the 2nd Draft of ‘Bill's Story’”: </span><a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/aahistorylovers/conversations/topics/384"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/aahistorylovers/conversations/topics/384</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/29/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See “Chapter One: Bill’s Story” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book That Started It All: The Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous</i> (Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 2010):<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/zytd23"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/zytd23</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. For additional information on the printer’s manuscript of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, see, for example: “The ‘Holy Grail’ of Alcoholics Anonymous”: </span><a href="http://www.aaholygrail.com/3.html"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.aaholygrail.com/3.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/29/2015. Bill W. stated about the preparation of the printer’s manuscript: “By now great numbers of the 400 mimeographs which had been sent out had been returned. . . . Nothing now remained except to prepare the printer’s copy of the book. We selected one of the mimeographs, and in Henry’s clear handwriting all the corrections were transferred to it. [“Henry” was Bill’s business partner and first “successful” sponsee in the New York area, Henry (Hank) P., who later got drunk around September 1939.] There were few large changes but the small ones were very numerous. The copy was hardly legible and we wondered if the printer would take it, heavily marked up as it was.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 167, 169.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The first printing of the first edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i> was published in April 1939. Its copyright date was April 10, 1939. On April 10, 2014, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., published the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">75<sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Anniversary Commemorative Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">, an exact reprint of the first printing of the first edition of the Big Book:<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/announcing-the-75th-Anniversary-Commemorative-edition-of-Alcoholics-Anonymous"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/announcing-the-75th-Anniversary-Commemorative-edition-of-Alcoholics-Anonymous</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous: “The Big Book”: The Original 1939 Edition</i>, with a new Introduction [23 pages] by Dick B. (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2011). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Conversion of Bill W.: More on the Creator’s Role in Early A.A. </i>(Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B., “A.A., Dr. William D. Silkworth, and the ‘Great Physician’”:<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/AA-Dr-William-D-Silkworth-and-the-Great-Physician.shtml"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.dickb.com/articles/AA-Dr-William-D-Silkworth-and-the-Great-Physician.shtml</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/30/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Big%20Book%20Early%20Versions%20chs%201%20&%202/Christ%20%20the%20Cross%20and%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Big%20Book%20Yep%20%2008%2028%202015.docx" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Bill W.’s comment here about his wishing he “had been religiously trained from early childhood” is misleading. Dick B. has written about Bill’s Christian upbringing and training in several of his published titles and in numerous articles. Bill’s Christian upbringing included: (1) Bill’s mother’s recounting to him from his earliest childhood days his paternal grandfather<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William C. (“Willie”) Wilson’s religious conversion experience which freed Willie from his alcoholism; (2) Bill’s attendance at Sunday school at East Dorset Congregational Church; (3) Bill’s reading the Bible with his maternal grandfather, Gardner Fayette Griffith; and (4) the various Christian activities in which Bill participated at Burr and Burton Seminary. Here’s just one example: Bill Wilson's pastor, D. Miner Rogers of East Dorset Congregational Church, awarded Bill a New Testament for one quarter-of-a-year’s perfect Sunday school attendance right after Bill and his sister Dorothy returned from Rutland in 1906. There is an inscription in the New Testament Bill received. It reads: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Will Wilson, for perfect attendance at Sunday School, Fourth Quarter 1906 from his pastor D. Miner Rogers East Dorset Vt. Jan 1, 1907 II Tim.3/14.15.” See: “The Library of Books found at Stepping Stones, the historic home of Bill and Lois Wilson”:<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://docslide.us/documents/books-at-stepping-stones.html"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://docslide.us/documents/books-at-stepping-stones.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> [This information is found near the end of the document under the listing for “various” (i.e., miscellaneous/otherwise unclassified items)].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When I first entered the rooms of A.A. in April 1986, I frequently heard a disabled Army colonel who had lost his hearing, gone through several divorces, encountered seemingly-endless troubles. The colonel often said, “It’s not a bed of roses out there.” But I took his statement to mean that though the going might be rough, we all could make it if we tried. Here are the Bible verses which I frequently reviewed and which enabled me to be victorious. One such verse is found in the book of Exodus:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. [Exod 15:26 KJV]<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Another verse I often recited to my self is found in the book of Psalms:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. </div>
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Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: </div>
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Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; </div>
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Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; </div>
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Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.</div>
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The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. [Psa 103:1-5, 8 KJV]<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Another is found in Mark chapter 16:</div>
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And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. </div>
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And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; </div>
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They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. </div>
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And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. [Mark 16:15, 17-20 KJV]<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Both A.A. cofounders, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, placed great emphasis on the importance of the book of James, 1 Corinthians 13, and “the Sermon on the Mount.” And we stress that standing on the promises of God should be grounded on the following verses from the book of James:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</div>
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. [Jam 4:7, 10 KJV]<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Standing on the promises of God is what early AAs did.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-90019188307475635502015-05-15T00:27:00.000-07:002015-05-15T00:27:04.791-07:00A Huge Opportunity to Serve God, Help Others, and Improve Your Life
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Others, and Improve Your Life<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I will be 90 years
old tomorrow. (I was born May 15, 1925.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have more than 29
years of continuous sobriety in A.A. (I got sober April 21, 1986.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have dozens of clean,
sober, accomplished, service-oriented, new friends in recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I know thousands
of Christians in recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I encourage those
who believe or seek to believe that they—and others suffering from alcoholism
and addiction—can depend upon Almighty God for their recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I well remember
the many people who came from all over the United States and Canada to the huge
conference my son Ken and I hosted at Mariners Church Community Center in May
2009 (with tremendous help from Rev. Jim Gaffney and others) for Christians
concerned about recovery. And at that conference, Ken and I were able to describe
and report the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible play and can
play in recovery from alcoholism and addiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I know many
Christian leaders and workers in the recovery arena who have become “Participants”
in the International Christian Recovery Coalition Ken and I founded in July 2009
(<a href="http://www.christianrecoverycoalition.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I know many
people who do not want to support any takeover of Alcoholics Anonymous by the
atheists and agnostics who are trying to exclude God from recovery or re-write a
program that will blot out the need for “Divine aid,” and obscure the facts
about what God can do for those still suffering (</span><a href="http://aaagnostica.org/2014/12/11/aa-without-the-god"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://aaagnostica.org/2014/12/11/aa-without-the-god</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I know many who have
not read or heard what Dr. Bob wrote in his Big Book story about his feeling
sorry for atheists and agnostics, followed by his asserting in the final
sentence of his personal story: “Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!”
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reach out to all those who are friendly to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reach out to those who believe they can help others by love and service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reach out to those who grasp the fact that hatred of other beliefs or unbelief
is poisonous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seek out and encourage those who are friendly to A.A. fellowships. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I continue to
encourage groups, meetings, and participants who are friendly to any who seek
recovery from alcoholism and addiction, and want to stop the destroyers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I continue to
seek out and encourage people who are friendly to those in the fields of
religion, science, education, charity, medicine, and psychology—fields composed
of those who seek to help others and become informed themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I continue to
appreciate the dozens and dozens of sponsees who have asked and allowed me through
the years to help them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">There has been growing a loud
voice from opponents and destroyers of fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. Most
of you know how much you have enjoyed and profited from all the activities,
achievements, and rewards of A.A. Most believe that God can and will and does
do for suffering alcoholics and addicts what they could not do for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please consider
that thousands have participated in the International Christian Recovery
Coalition and its conferences. We believe the strong testimonial approach of
the original AAs is the most persuasive and effective method of standing tall
for God’s help. It allows the many who have been rebuked for mentioning God,
His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible to tell believers, other recovery
participants, and others who strongly seek to help others, to stand on the
ideas that A.A. will perish, if we forget where we came from; and that, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if we do not have before us the truth that God
has the (best) solution for overcoming the problem of alcoholism, do not carry
that message to those who still suffer, the (original, highly-successful) A.A.
program will be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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communicate with us in any way you choose; and let us know your suggestions,
questions, and views as to how to keep God, His Son Jesus Christ and the Bible
in the same, clear, successful role that prompted millions to choose the
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-52795945429601628852015-04-29T20:51:00.000-07:002015-04-29T20:51:07.259-07:00Hearing "the rest of" A.A. History
The Purpose of Dick B.’s Alcoholics Anonymous and A.A. History Website
Why this site by Dick B. on the history of A.A., and the people and organizations involved with successful Christian Recovery efforts which preceded and influenced Alcoholics Anonymous? We believe you should hear the whole A.A. history story if you are to receive and pass on the spiritual tools that A.A. offers to those who still suffer. But our primary focus is on “the rest of the story.” The fact is that there are countless untold, ignored, discarded, distorted, or omitted pieces of A.A. history that offer opportunities to still-suffering alcoholics and addicts to be lifted out of the mire, to seek the same cure that early AAs received, and to pursue a transformed life anew. The many resources here will supply what has been missing. They will highlight what AAs in misery, in confusion, and in repeated relapses can do if they learn and know what the original A.A. pioneers did in depending and relying upon the power and love of God. And in finding or rediscovering God through His Son Jesus Christ on the path found in the Bible.
Major Historical Landmarks
along the Alcoholics Anonymous Path to Recovery
In Alcoholics Anonymous (“the Big Book”), the “basic text” of A.A. (the first edition of which was published in April 1939), A.A. cofounder Bill W. wrote: “Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.” [Big Book, 4th ed., 58]. What is usually unfamiliar to the A.A. Fellowship is Bill W.’s inspiring declaration in the personal story of AA Number Three (Bill D.) found in the second edition (published in 1955), the third edition (published in 1976), and the fourth edition (published in 2001) of the “basic text”:
“. . . [T]he Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I just want to keep talking about it and telling people.” [Big Book, 4th ed., 191]
A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob said in his last major talk to AAs:
It wasn’t until 1938 that the teachings and efforts and stories that had been going on were crystallized in the form of the Twelve Steps. I didn’t write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. . . We already had the basic ideas, though not in terse and tangible form. We got them, as I said, as a result of our study of the Good Book [i.e., the Bible]. [The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major Talks (Item # P-53), 14]
An effort that began with the founding of A.A. in June 1935 in Akron, Ohio. And Dr. Bob concluded his own personal story in the Big Book by voicing the same emphasis that Bill W. gave when he spoke of his having been cured of alcoholism by the Lord. Dr. Bob stated:
Your Heavenly Father will never let you down! [Big Book, 4th ed., 181]
The problem is that neither I nor most AAs nor most other people in the recovery arena know or even seem to want to know exactly what occurred that put A.A. on the map. Or that generated sales of over 40 million Big Books. Or that brought the worldwide Society of Alcoholics Anonymous to a membership level of about 2 million people. Yet A.A. had produced a wide variety of solid, reliable, spiritual tools between its founding in June 1935 and the publication of the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (“the Big Book”) in April 1939. And we want to be sure that desperate, “seemingly-hopeless,” “medically-incurable” alcoholics hear the whole story. Better stated, that they know “the rest of the story” about their cherished Fellowship. And the option of placing their recovery in God’s hands today.
A Brief Outline of Key Points about A.A.’s Earliest Years
First Century Christianity. Many early observers of Alcoholics Anonymous likened early Akron A.A. to First Century Christianity. As Mr. Albert Scott, chairman of the trustees of Riverside Church, put it at a meeting with a number of early AAs and some supporters in New York:
“Why, this is first-century Christianity!” Then he asked, “What can we do to help?” [‘PASS IT ON,’ 184]
And a careful study of what the Apostles did in the First Century, as reported in the Book of Acts in the Bible and as mirrored in early A.A. (particularly in Akron), is very rewarding.
A.A.’s Christian Predecessors. Centuries later, beginning around the mid-1800s, Christian individuals, churches, and movements began looking at alcoholics, addicts, homeless people, and derelicts in a new light. Instead of condemning them as downtrodden wretches, many Christian people and entities set about bringing to them the Bible, salvation, and some very real help. One such Christian organization was the Salvation Army. The distinguished scholar and theology professor Howard J. Clinebell wrote, for example:
The long history of the Salvation Army . . . has demonstrated persistent concern with the practical application of religious resources to help victims of social chaos, oppression, and addictions. From the beginning, there has been an ongoing commitment to help “the least, the last, and the lost” with “soup, soap, and salvation.” This down-to-earth orientation led the Army from its inception into the field of alcoholism. Firsthand experiences in the squalor of London slums made the founders, William and Evangeline Booth, and their fellow Salvationists keenly sensitive to the problem. Booth agonized over the tragic plight of England’s half million alcoholics. [Howard Clinebell, Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions, rev. and enl. ed. (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1998), 184].
And the Salvation Army efforts coincided with those of:
•Gospel Rescue Missions;
•the Young Men’s Christian Association;
•Christian evangelists such as Moody, Sankey, Moorhouse, Meyer, Drummond, Moore, and Folger—who accomplished many a healing as they carried the need for salvation and the Word of God to the derelicts;
•Congregationalists in Vermont; and
• the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor (in which Dr. Bob and his parents were active in Bob’s youth), which developed a program for young Christians that much resembled that of the subsequently-developed Akron A.A. “Christian fellowship” program. (E.g., both programs included conversion, Bible study, prayer, Quiet Hour, and outreach to newcomers.)
The group founded in the autumn of 1922 by Lutheran minister Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman and a couple of his associates called “A First Century Christian Fellowship”—better known after 1928 as “the Oxford Group”—also contributed its share of life-changing ideas to early Alcoholics Anonymous, though Buchman’s group focused primarily on saving “drunken nations” rather than on saving drunks. But its emphasis of God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible, brought rescue to a number of alcoholics in its ranks.
The Christian Upbringings of A.A. Cofounders in Vermont. As A.A.’s cofounders-to-be were receiving their Christian upbringing in Vermont, they absorbed the news about the organizations and people just mentioned. But they also attended Congregational Sunday schools, churches, and Congregationalist-dominated academies. There they studied the Bible and attended daily chapel (with its sermons, reading of Scripture, hymns, and prayers). And they were necessarily put in touch with a substantial amount of the Young Men’s Christian Association’s salvation and Bible emphasis.
How the First Three AAs Got Sober. The story of how the first three AAs got sober is not a story about an A.A. program. It is an account of how three down-and-out Christian alcoholics—who believed in God, had been Bible students, and had been active in churches at a one or more points in their lives—admitted their alcoholism, determined to quit for good, turned to God for help, were cured, and actively helped others for the rest of their days.
The Original Akron A.A. “Christian Fellowship” Program. This first actual A.A. program founded in Akron in June 1935 was Bible-based. It had no Twelve Steps or Twelve Traditions. It had no Big Book. And it had no “war stories” or meetings like those seen today. The pioneers believed the answers to their problems were in the Bible. The AAs in Akron called themselves a “Christian fellowship.” And their seven-point program as it looked in February 1938 is summarized on page 131 of DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers. Its principles and practices incorporated ideas both Bill W. and Dr. Bob had learned growing up in Vermont. And do you know what that program really was?
Bill W.’s “New Version of the Program, . . . the ‘Twelve Steps.’” Then came Bill Wilson’s “new version of the program, . . . the ‘Twelve Steps.’” [See Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, 162]. Bill prepared his Big Book and the content of his “Steps” from the things he borrowed from Dr. William D. Silkworth, Professor William James, and Reverend Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr.—a chief lieutenant of the Oxford Group in America and rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. [See The Language of the Heart , 195-98, 297-98].
A Major Compromise by a “Committee of Four.” Shortly before Bill W.’s Big Book was published in April 1939, a dramatic change in A.A. occurred. Bill described in considerable detail how the Big Book was written on pages 153-73 of Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age. On page 166, Bill described what he said “[a]t the time . . . looked like just another battle over the book.” On pages 17 and 162-64, he had given the background of an ongoing “debate” among the “conservative, liberal, and radical viewpoints,” out of which “came the spiritual form and substance of the document.” And on page 166, Bill stated:
We [i.e., a “committee of four” comprised of Fitz, Henry, Henry’s secretary Ruth, and Bill W.] were still arguing about the Twelve Steps. All this time I had refused to budge on these steps. I would not change a word of the original draft, in which, you will remember, I had consistently used the word “God,” . . .
From the quote immediately above, together with other language in the same paragraph, we learn from the Big Book’s (primary) author, Bill W., that he had written the (unmodified) word “God” in his “original draft” of the Twelve Steps and had firmly stuck with that language up to the point of this “battle over the book.” But then the “contentions” of the “radical” viewpoint—represented by Bill’s partner Henry (“Hank P.”) and Jimmy B.—won out. Bill spoke of “compromise” and “compromise words,” stating:
. . . In Step Two we decided to describe God as a “Power greater than ourselves.” In Steps Three and Eleven we inserted the words “God as we understood Him.” . . .
Such were the final concessions to those of little or no faith; this was the great contribution of our atheists and agnostics. . . .
God was certainly there in our Steps, but . . . [Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, 167; italics in original]
When 400 copies of the typed “prepublication copy of the text and some of the stories,” which Bill said he had labeled “the mimeograph issue ‘Alcoholics Anonymous,’ were circulated to “everyone we could think of who might be concerned with the problem of alcoholism,” the wording of Steps Two and Three had already been changed to reflect the “compromise.” But Step Eleven still contained the unmodified word “God”:
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. [“Chapter Five: How It Works” in The Original Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous available on Silkworth.net: http://mcaf.ee/siokx]
It was not until Hazelden published high-resolution scans of the printer’s manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous in 2010 under the title, The Book That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous, that it became possible for the first time for the public to see both the unmodified word “God” in Step Eleven and the handwritten circle added around the word “God,” accompanied by the handwritten words “as we understood” stretching into the right-hand margin. The scanned copy of the printer’s manuscript, reprinted on pages 21-190 in The Book That Started It All, is filled with scribbled notes, changes, deletions, and initials of those who fiddled with it. And a considerable number of the markings reflect an effort to remove Christian and Bible traces, as well as references to God. And they surely altered the whole tenor of Bill’s codified Oxford Group “new version of the program.”
What This Website Offers Alcoholics and Addicts Still Suffering Today
The history, origins, and development of A.A. are certainly covered by the many dissemination categories covered by the many sources referred to in this website. But “the rest of the story” is what we emphasize. “The rest of the story” documents the early successes based on, and the later shift away from, the Bible roots, Christian fellowship, and original and concise Akron A.A. program
The major and previously-obscured points are found in the books, articles, blogs, audios, videos, radio shows, YouTube presentations, and other materials you will find through this website. You will note how A.A. moved from its original quest for a Bible-based cure of alcoholism by the power of God to self-made Twelve Steps drawn from a philosopher, a psychiatrist, and an Episcopalian Rector. You will see that there has been a decided drift in recovery tools from reliance on God to literature that describes “gods” with weird names like “light bulb, Big Dipper, tree, and door knob.” It shifted descriptions of God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible to “higher powers,” “spirituality,” and the newly-proclaimed dictum that you may now, if you wish, believe in nothing at all as you enter the rooms of A.A.
And it is the result of 25 years of research, and 28 years of continuous sobriety, as well as the hands-on work “in the trenches” by Dick B. and his son Ken B., that almost demand of the newcomer admission of some kind of total defeat, a determination not to drink, reliance on God, reference to the Bible, and the helping of and service to others. These are the simple ingredients of “old-school” A.A.—particularly as it was seen in A.A.’s early days in Akron and to some extent in Cleveland as well. We believe that Christians will—when fully informed—consider their options in recovery today. The “old-school” ideas can and should be applied in the 12-Step Fellowships as an option that placed A.A. on the map and fostered the sale of millions of A.A. books in the ensuing decades.
The All-But-Ignored-or-Forgotten Precepts of “Old School” A.A.
As a taste of “the rest of the story” that you will find here, the following pieces of evidence speak more loudly than any research, lectures, history books, opinions, and statistical surveys.
Around the beginning of December 1934, Bill Wilson went to Calvary Mission in New York City where his friend Ebby was living and made a decision to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. On December 11, 1934, he checked into Towns Hospital as a patient needing care for alcoholism for the fourth and final time. About three days into that stay, Bill cried out to God for help. He had his famous vital religious experience in which he said his hospital room “blazed with an indescribably white light.” And Bill wrote that he believed “the God of the Scriptures” was present in his room and that this was the source of Bill’s being cured of alcoholism. [See, for example, The Language of the Heart, 284]. Bill W.’s story still rests on his statement quoted by AA Number Three, Bill D., in Bill D.’s personal story in the Big Book: “Henrietta, the Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease that I just want to keep talking about it and telling people.” [Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., 191]
Dr. Bob was persuaded by a tiny group of friends meeting at T. Henry and Clarace Williams’ home in Akron, Ohio, to confess publically to them that he was a “secret drinker.” He dropped to the floor on his knees with them and prayed for his deliverance. The miracle of the appearance of Bill Wilson, a total stranger, in Akron in May 1935, followed and constituted what the group and Dr. Bob believed was the answer to the prayer. Soon, after one last binge in early June, Dr. Bob said in Bill W.’s presence that he was leaving the surgery he was about to perform and his determination to quit drinking in God’s hands. And June 1935 marked A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob’s last drink and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
There is much much more to give present-day alcoholics and addicts a reliable picture of how they can, even today, learn and apply the history, the belief, and the actions that buttressed the successful efforts of 40 “seemingly-hopeless,” “medically-incurable,” “last-gasp-case,” “real” alcoholics who were staying sober as of November 1937 to get well and stay well. And we suggest that the principles and practices required in the highly-successful, early Akron A.A. “Christian fellowship” program are still an option today, based on current A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature.
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- See more at: http://www.dickb.com/index.html#sthash.CXHalocj.dpufDick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-20409029930159753702015-04-26T19:40:00.002-07:002015-04-26T19:40:09.839-07:00A.A. and its Christian Endeavor RootsProbably no account of the origins of Alcoholics Anonymous is more screwed up than the one or ones that tries to link A.A. to the (1) Bible, (2) A First Century Christian Fellowship, (3) Quiet Time, (4) The journal kept by Dr. Bob's wife (Anne Ripley Smith) from 1933 to 1939 and discussed in front of A.A. pioneers and family,
(5) The books, articles, and sermons of Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr. (6) The contributions of William D. Silkworth on the nature of alcoholism and on the ability of Jesus Christ--the Great Physician--to cure it. (7) The huge writings and teachings of Professor William James of Harvard. (8) The vital spiritual experience thinking and teaching of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung of Switzerland (9) The ability of Dr. Robert H. Smith and William G. Wilson to formulate the rudiments of the actions which enabled them to move from alcoholic sickness and despair to abstinence, reliance on God, obedience to God, spiritual growth through the Bible, prayer, and Quiet Time, and the necessity for helping others once the first alcoholic is cured.
Unfortunately, most AAs don't know the immense role that the basic ideas from the Bible put before AAs. They know that Bob and Bill had some experience with the "Oxford Group" and that A.A., to some extent, sprang from the Oxford Group ideas--all twenty-eight of them. They learned how much the Oxford Group people thought of William James, the Bible, and the life-changing art they developed as the means of their simple "design for living" -- sin, Jesus Christ, cure. This did not set well with Roman Catholic clergy.
Others knock A.A. by calling it "spiritualism," "Masonry based, and "not-god-ness." Others caution AAs by warning that it depended upon some absurd "higher power" and not Almighty God, the Creator. Others objected to the Protestant ideas of AAs which came not only from their leaders but also from their extensive Christian upbringing in the Congregational Churches (baptism, profession of faith, the importance of the Word of God, and salvation) also including the materials from Christian Endeavor, the Rescue Missions, the Salvation Army, Young Men's Christian Association, Congregationalism, the great evangelists like Moody and Meyer, and the faithful teaching of the Bible as a foundation for the ideas.
The bottom remedy for the hostile student of A.A. roots is to stop knocking God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, salvation, Protestant ideas, piety, religion, church, clergy, cure, and the treasures in academies and seminaries where young Congregationalists were required to attend daily chapel (with sermons, reading of Scripture, prayer observances, and hymns) and receive the immense contributions of founder's families in training their children about God--the one true God--and the evil of idolatry. The pioneers simply weren't on the warpath. They stressed dependence on God, cleaning house, and helping others get well.
I have done extensive research into Christian Endeavor principles and practices. I have noted they attained a world-wide membership of 4.5 million. And I have note three important facts: (1) In the Book of Acts, the apostles reported on their fellowship--following the teachings of Jesus; breaking bread together; attending temple or home meetings together; continuous daily contact, learning the teaching of the apostles, healing, conversion, and witnessing. (2) Dr. Bob went through these same practices as a young member of Christian Endeavor; and those same First Century Christianity deeds were followed in the first century and influenced A.A. in a way which did not depend on William James, Carl Jung, William Silkworth, Samuel Shoemaker, Frank Buchman, or the so-called Oxford Group,(3) Just as early AAs strongly emphasized the Bible, prayer, conversion, healing and witnessing, they were dutifully emulating First Century Christianity; and they called themselves A Christian Fellowship.Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-61505884156745662692015-04-22T18:13:00.000-07:002015-04-22T18:13:34.580-07:00Tables of Contents for All 31 Volumes of "The Dick B. A.A. History & Christian Recovery Reference Set"
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b> of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne Smith’s
Journal, 1933-1939</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword to the First Edition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface to the Revised Paradise
Edition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
Lady of Faith, Courage, and Love<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Books That Anne Read and Recommended<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne’s
Discussion of 28 Oxford Group Concepts<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Spiritual
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Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>28 Oxford Group Principles That Influenced A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b> of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">By the Power of
God</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Foreword<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Starkness
and Darkness of the Problem and the Simplicity of the Early Solution<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
Personal Debt to, and Opportunities from, A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
Believers Involved in Today’s Twelve Step Programs May Be Seeking<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Simple Program as A.A.’s Pioneers Described It<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Real Foundations of A.A.’s Pioneer Program<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You Can Start
a Good Book/Big Book Group in a Variety of Ways<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Basics Early AAs Borrowed from the Bible<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Oxford Group Path in Pioneer A.A.’s Steps<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quiet
Time, Devotionals, and the Guidance of God<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne
Smith’s Specific Journal and Twelve Step Ideas<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam Shoemaker,
Bill’s Acknowledged Mentor, and A.A.’s Six Basic Roots<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oxford
Group Leader Sam Shoemaker’s Input<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Putting
the Steps and Their Sources Together<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Vision for You</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can
There Be Pioneer Groups in Today’s A.A.?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Guides
for Groups Direct from A.A.’s Pioneers<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
Such Meetings Can Accomplish<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
You Can Do Today<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dr. Bob’s Bible and A.A. Group No. 1<o:p></o:p></div>
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Select Bibliography<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b> of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cured! Proven
Help for Alcoholics and Addicts</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
Foreword<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Earliest A.A. Days<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let’s
Use Simple Words That People Understand<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Newcomer
Netting<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
History Can Teach You in, and about, A.A. Itself<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Offering
More than Abstinence<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Facing
“Reality” with “Divine Help”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Talking
Plainly about the Creator<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
Is More to Cure than Abstinence<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
Own Table of Tips<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cured
and Victorious! Putting the Pieces Together<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob and His Library</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword to First Edition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface to the Third Edition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The
Story of Dr. Bob’s Reading<o:p></o:p></div>
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of Information about His Books<o:p></o:p></div>
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Books Dr. Bob Owned, Read, and Recommended<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bible<o:p></o:p></div>
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about the Bible<o:p></o:p></div>
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Classics<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life of Jesus Christ<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bible Devotionals<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sermon on the Mount<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Oxford Group<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dr. Samuel M. Shoemaker<o:p></o:p></div>
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of A.A.’s Other “Founders” (William James & Carl Jung)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Authors of Special Interest to Dr. Bob<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the Mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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Time<o:p></o:p></div>
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Weatherhead Puzzle<o:p></o:p></div>
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Literature<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Healing<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What’s
New<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dr.
Bob’s Biblical Sources Emerge<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Some
Final Thoughts<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 1: Dr. Bob’s Biblical and
Christian Background<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 2: Inventory of Books on Hand at
Calvary House, September 12, 1933<o:p></o:p></div>
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Index<o:p></o:p></div>
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of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The “Great Awakening”
of 1875 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Challenge and Direction of the Dr. Bob Resource Volumes<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.’s Dr.
Bob and His St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Roots<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dr. Bob’s
Birthplace and Boyhood Home<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>North
Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Christian Endeavor Society and Its Legacy to Alcoholics Anonymous<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The <st1:place w:st="on">St.</st1:place> Johnsbury Academy<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The <st1:city w:st="on">Fairbanks</st1:city> Family of St. Johnsbury, Vermont<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Town of <st1:place w:st="on">St.</st1:place> Johnsbury of Dr. Bob’s Youth<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The YMCA and
St. Johnsbury, Vermont: 1875-1898<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Original,
Akron A.A. Spiritual Program of Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK14;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK15;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Conclusion<span style="mso-tab-count: 9;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b>
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God and Alcoholism: Our Growing
Opportunity in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Real Facts about A.A.’s Pioneer
Group<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.’s
Great Role: A Review of, and Experiences with, the Practices, Principles, and
Values of A.A. in the 20<sup>th</sup> Century<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Good News: What God Can Do about Alcoholism<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Nonsense “gods” of Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Let’s
Begin with Some Definitions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Some
“Higher Power” Homework<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Some
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>What
Is “a Power greater than ourselves”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Another
New “god” in A.A.? Or the Creator?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>“God
as we understood Him”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>An
Alleged Compromise That Opened the Door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why
Bring up God—Again!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b>
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good Morning! Quiet Time, Morning
Watch, Meditation, and Early A.A.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface
to Revised Edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What’s It All About?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It Began in the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Listening through the Ages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quiet Time Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quiet Time Practices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What Early AAs Borrowed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>History to the Rescue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henrietta
B. Seiberling: Ohio’s Lady with a Cause</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Brief Glance at Henrietta’s Life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Accurate Description of A.A.’s
Real Spiritual Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henrietta’s Special Role as a
Non-Alcoholic Woman Who Helped Found A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Akron’s Oxford Group Encounters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Distinguishing Akron’s Program from
Bill’s Later 12 Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Exit of the Oxford Group:
Observations about A.A.’s Connection with the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Oxford Group<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Introduction
to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Introduction to the Sources and Founding of
Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Part One: The Akron Genesis Period<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Part Two: The New York Conversion Period<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Part Three: The Original A.A. Program That Akron
Developed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Part Four: The Works Publishing Company Program
That Bill W. Fashioned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Part Five: The Reshaping of the Big Book Program
Beginning in 1939<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b> for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Making Known the
Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Historical Research Papers, Letters, Pictures,
and Tapes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Papers in Dick B.’s
Personal Files<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Materials Gathered from Archives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Materials Gathered on or about A.A. Founders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Materials Gathered Concerning A.A.’s
Spiritual Sources<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Materials from the Founders’ Homes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Materials about Special Early A.A.
Personalities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Fragments of, on, or about A.A. History<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Concluding Materials Pertaining to Dick B.’s
Research<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The George Vondermuhll, Jr. Materials on the Oxford Group
and Moral Re-Armament<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Danny Whitmore Historical Materials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Dennis Cassidy Collections of Recordings of All Bill
Wilson’s Public Talks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rare Items<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Historical Books, Pamphlets, and Articles on
Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Publications about Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Publications Approved by Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pamphlets Circulated in Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alcoholics Anonymous: Pro, Con, and Evaluated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3: Spiritual
History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Bible Versions of and Books About<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Quiet
Time and Inspirational Books, Pamphlets and Bible Devotionals Popular with Dr.
Bob and Early AAs, as Well as More Recent Meditation Books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Publications
by or about the Rev. Dr. Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Publications
by or about the Oxford Group and Oxford Group People<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Books
by or about Oxford Group and A.A. Christian Mentors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Christian
and Other Religious Literature Pertaining to Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Books of Dr. Bob’s Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Background Books A.A. Pioneers Read<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Miscellaneous
Books Used in Dick B.’s Research and Writings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Temperance,
Anti Saloon League, Prohibition, Abstinence, Alcohol Books and Pamphlets of an
Earlier Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Recent
Books and Articles on Alcoholism, Addictions, and Dependency<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Details
on Contributors and Their Collections<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 7: Our Advisory Council Supporting Members<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b>
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam
Shoemaker, and A.A.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">List
of Appendices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword
to the Pittsburgh Edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword
by Nickie Shoemaker Haggart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword
by Julia Harris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam and A.A.’s Heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam Shoemaker, “Co-founder” of
Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam Shoemaker’s New Light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam’s Unmistakable Footprints in the
Twelve Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Parallels between the Shoemaker Language and Alcoholics Anonymous Language<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2: Sam’s Writings and Talks, and A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Shoemaker Writings Prior to A.A.’s Big Book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam’s
Remarks to and about A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3: The Shoemaker Relationship with A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shoemaker’s
Relationship with Bill Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam,
the Great Communicator, and His Letters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shoemaker
and His Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shoemaker
Ideas That “Took” in A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 4: Sam’s Legacies for Us Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Pittsburgh Afterglow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
Shoemaker’s Contributions Can Mean for All of Us Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>28
Oxford Group Principles That Influenced A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Oxford Group Literature Read by AAs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
January 22, 1935, Letter from Sam to Bill W.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Irving Harris Memorandum Regarding Bill W. and Sam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Entries
in Sam Shoemaker’s Journals (1934-1939) about Bill Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the
Oxford Group Businessmen’s Team<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lois
Wilson’s Oxford Group Notebook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two
Important Bill Wilson Letters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Bill’s
Letter of April 23, 1963, to Sam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Bill
Wilson’s April 1953 Memo as to “Original AA Steps”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Excerpts
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Calvary Evangel</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Calvary Church Yearbook</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lessons
from the Original Personal Stories of A.A. Pioneers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alcoholism
Statistics and A.A. Success Rates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography (pages 575-595)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"><o:p> </o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Contents of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pioneer Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous:
God’s Role in Recovery Confirmed!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Chapter 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Experience,
Strength & Hope: Stories from the First Three Editions of </i>Alcoholics
Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1">Chapter 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939
Edition</i>: Part 1<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"></span>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Chapter 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition</i>: Part 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Chapter 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition</i>: Part 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Appendix 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why Don’t You Choose Your Own Conception of
God?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Appendix 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Key Highlights in the Writing of the Big
Book with Approximate Dates<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Appendix 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Expression “Religious Experience” and
the “Solution” to Alcoholism<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Appendix 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Occurrences of the Phrase “Spiritual
Experience” in the 4<sup>th</sup> Edition<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">Appendix 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The 20 Personal Stories in “the Printer’s
Copy” of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholi</i>cs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anonymous</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b>
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Real Twelve Step Fellowship History:
The Old-School A.A. You May Not Know</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Original A.A. Program of Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The “Absolute Essentials” of the Good Book
Program in Akron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Substantial Changes in A.A. from 1939 to
1955<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How Adding a History Element to Recovery Can
Help the Newcomer Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>New Testament Healing Records Categorized<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Dead or Nearly Dead People Made
Alive or Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Lepers Cleansed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Paralyzed People Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>People with Fevers Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Woman with the Hemorrhage (or
“Flow of Blood”) Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Blind People Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>A Man with a Withered Hand Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>A Man with Dropsy (or Edema)
Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>A Man with an Infirmity 38 Years
Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Lame People Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>People Who Were Lunatick Were
Healed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Several Types of Sickness and
Disease Healed in the Same Setting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Evil Spirits Were Cast Out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stick
with the Winners!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Introduction: “Old-School” Christian
Recovery<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Resources for “Old-School” 12 Step Recovery
Meetings<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Conference-approved Resources<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Other Resources<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></i>23<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->16 Key Practices of the Real Akron A.A. Program<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>35<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“Old-School” A.A. and First Century Christianity<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>47<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Many Compared Early A.A. to First Century
Christianity<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>48<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his
representatives<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>49<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“First Century Christianity” in the Book of
Acts<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>51<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A.A.’s Christian Predecessors<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>55<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Vermont of Dr. Bob and Bill W.’s youth<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>55<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Christian Recovery before A.A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>57<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Dr. Bob and Bill W.’s Christian Upbringings<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>68<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Conversion Factor in Bill W.’s Life<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>69<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Many Early AAs Claimed They Were “Cured”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>71<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“Old-School” Elements That Can Be Used Today<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>75<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How to Conduct “Old-School” Recovery Meetings<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>85<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Conclusion<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>93<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That Amazing Grace: The Role of Clarence
and Grace S. in Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Getting Acquainted with Grace and Clarence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My Introduction to Grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Amazing” Grace: A Biographical
Sketch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now about Clarence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As Grace Recalls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Clarence and A.A.’s Founding Years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.’s Roots in the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Oxford Group Ideas and Influence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>T/he Big Book, Steps, and A.A.
Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Ministry of Clarence and Grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ambassadors for Christ in A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Grace Carries On<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents </b>of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">List
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword
to First Edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Beginnings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Roles of James D. Newton and
Russell (“Bud”) Firestone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Grateful Harvey Firestone, Sr., and
the 1933 Oxford Group Events<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.’s Akron Progenitors and Their Major
Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An Overview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Their Qualifications<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Oxford Group Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>28 Oxford Group Principles That
Influenced Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Dr. Bob and His Wife, Anne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Lois Wilson’s Oxford Group Notes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Bill’s Synopsis of What He Found<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Henrietta Seiberling’s Spiritual
Infusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne Smith, Her Love, and Her
Spiritual Workbook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dr. Bob, His Library, and His
Spiritual Studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bill Wilson and the Akron Genesis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Oxford Group Crucible: 1933-1935<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Alcoholic Squad of the Oxford Group in
Action<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Akron’s Part in the Big Book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Alcoholic Squad in Akron Becomes
Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Akron Taproot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Akron as One Part of the Picture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Traces of Akron in the Big Book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Excerpt from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Upper Room</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Excerpt from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Utmost for His Highest</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Excerpt from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Victorious Living<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Excerpt from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daily Strength for Daily Needs<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents </b>of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual
Growth</i>, 7<sup>th</sup> ed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface
to the Seventh Edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Bible: “The Main Source Book of
All”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dr. Bob’s Reading and Recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Upper Room </i>and Bible Devotionals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Henrietta Seiberling’s Books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>T. Henry and Clarace Williams’
Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Oxford Group Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Reverend Sam Shoemaker’s Books
and Writings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bill and Lois Wilson’s Comments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nell Wing’s Recollections<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pioneer Clarence S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Comments of Other A.A. Oldtimers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Some Suggestions for You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Inventory of Books on Hand at Calvary
House September 12, 1933<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Conversion of Bill W.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The God of the Preachers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two Heralds of Divine Help on Its Way for
Alcoholics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 4:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Turning Point: Bill’s Decision for
Christ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 5:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“For Sure I’d Been Born Again”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 6:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repent, and Be Converted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 7:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If There Be a Great Physician, I’ll Call on
Him”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 8:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 9:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Open Their Eyes That They May See: Manna
from Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 10: The Touch of
the Master’s Hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 11: “With a Mighty
Hand, and with an Outstretched Arm”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 12: As Bill Saw It:
“Thy Will Be Done”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix:
“Conversion” in the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b> of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The First Nationwide Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Theme and Purpose of the Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alcoholics
Anonymous, the Founders, and Belief in Almighty God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Spiritual Beginnings of A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Real Program of Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 5A: Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 5B: The Sermon on
the Mount (Matthew 5-7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 5C: The Book of
James<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 5D: 1 Corinthians
13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 6:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. Sam Shoemaker, an A.A. “Co-Founder”
and Spiritual Source<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 7:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the Creator Did and Can Do for Our
Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents </b>of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Golden Text of A.A.: God, the
Pioneers, and Real Spirituality</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We Will Tell You about . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What Early AAs Thought about God
Almighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Pioneers Believed in God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Pioneers Understood Who God
Is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Willing Unbelievers Came to
Believe in God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Pioneers Believed That, When
Sought, God Heals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Their Path, Jesus Christ, and a
Relationship with God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Steps along the Path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Miraculous Result<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Golden Text of A.A. They Adopted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Critical Need to Seek God Again
Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Self-help Will Not Cut It. That
Is Not a Solution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Medical
Help and Psychological Help Have Not Cut It<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Four Early A.A. Factors
Needed Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two Challenges for Real Spirituality
Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Good Book and the Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword
to the First Edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->"Lest We Forget Early AAs and Their
Bibles!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Early
A.A.'s Success Rate Compared to Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Historical Evidence of A.A.'s Good Book Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Oxford Group-Shoemaker Impact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bible
Devotionals and Other Early A.A. Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Purpose of Our Book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->God!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Frequency of Biblical Names for God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">God
is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A
Loving God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A
Special "god" for A.A.?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Whence
Came "Higher Power?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bill
Wilson's Higher Power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">"God
As We Understood Him"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">"A
Power Greater Than Ourselves"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Biblical Impact on Big Book Language<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Direct
Quotes from the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Recognizable
Biblical Words and Concepts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A.A.
Slogans and Watchwords with Biblical Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Two
Other Biblical Concepts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Parts Dr. Bob Found "Essential"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Book of James<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Sermon on the Mount<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Good Book and the Twelve Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
One and Deflation at Depth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Two, Willingness, Belief, and Seeking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Three and the Decision to Surrender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Four and Self-examination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Five and Confession<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Six, Conviction and Readiness to Change<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Seven, Humble Submission and Rebirth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Eight, Willingness To Make Amends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Nine, Restitution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Ten and Daily Corrective Action<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Eleven, Prayer, Guidance, Growth, Power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Step
Twelve, Awakening, Witness, Practice of Principles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Keeping It Simple<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Original Six Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Simmered
Down to the Last (Love and Service)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Good Book and A.A. Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b>
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Good Book-Big Book Guidebook:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to
Include the Creator’s Impact on Early A.A. in Recovery Programs Today</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>History:
The Inclusion in Recovery of A.A.’s Biblical Origins and Christian Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Healing Evidence at the Time When A.A. Was Born<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alcoholics
Anonymous, the Founders, Belief in Almighty God, and Divine Healing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Spiritual Beginnings of A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Real Program of Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Materials from the Bible That Dr. Bob Considered “Absolutely Essential”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Approach Early Akron AAs Took While They Sought Christian Healing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Practical Use and Application of This Guide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Selected Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Catch
the Wave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.
History Study Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents</b>
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The James Club and the Original A.A.
Program’s Absolute Essentials</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AA.’s Book of James<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
in A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.’s Connection with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Greatest Thing in the World</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Outline of the Original Program<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Akron
Crucible Where It All Began<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Real
Program of Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>An Overview
of What They Did in Akron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Frank
Amos Reports in 1938<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The Big Book
Publication in 1939<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Comparing the Christian Endeavor
Root<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Two Different A.A. Root Streams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Background on the Bible’s Book of
James and James the “Author”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Difference an Identification of
the Creator Makes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Contents of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Preface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 1: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Roots of Early A.A.’s Success Rate (pp.
1-37)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mentors Who Influenced the Oxford Group’s
Founder (pp. 39-72)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Frank Buchman and His First Century Christian
Fellowship (pp. 73-105)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam Shoemaker’s Oxford Group Role (pp. 107-35)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The A.A. Links: Arrivals and Departures (pp.
137-48)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>28 Oxford Group Principles That Influenced
A.A. (pp. 149-297)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oxford Group Traces in A.A.’s 12 Steps and Big
Book Language<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Ch. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bibliography (pp. 371-90)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Index (pp. 391-411)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents </b>of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.’s
Spiritual Roots and Successes</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Preface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Lacuna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Spiritual Program for Drunks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Oxford Group Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A.A.’s Spiritual Beginnings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Good Book Source<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Sections of the Bible Dr. Bob
Found “Essential”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Biblical Impact on Big Book Language<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Good Book and the Twelve Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Oxford Group’s Contribution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>28 Oxford Group Principles That
Influenced A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sam Shoemaker—“Co-Founder” of A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oxford Group Traces in A.A.’s Twelve
Steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Other Spiritual Sources<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne Smith—“Mother of A.A.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dr. Bob and the Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quiet Time and the Devotionals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Part 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>History to the Rescue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Putting It All Together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Use It or Lose It!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Parallel Oxford Group-Big Book
Phrases<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents </b>for
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelve Steps for You:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Take the
Twelve Steps with the Big Book, A.A. History, and the Good Book at Your Side</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Begin
Your Step Study by Reviewing the Original Akron Program and Learning How A.A.
Really Began<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Begin
Your Study of the Steps by Looking First at the Bible and at Each Step’s Known
Bible Origins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With
the Bible Origins in Mind, Study Each Step to Learn the Basic Ideas It Contains
from the Oxford Group<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once
You Have Learned the Bible Sources and the Oxford Group Ideas, Then Study Each
Step, Observing How Closely It Parallels the Language of America’s Oxford Group
Leader, Sam Shoemaker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>.
. . Then See How Much of the Bible Material, Oxford Group Ideas, and
Shoemaker’s Writings Were Being Taught in Early A.A. in Anne Smith’s (Dr. Bob’s
Wife’s) Writings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Read
Carefully This Study and Critique of What Bill W. Claimed Were Six Steps—Six
“Word-of Mouth” Ideas Already in Place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>.
. . Consider the Steps in Company with the Three Bible Parts Dr. Bob Called
“Absolutely Essential” Lest Some Highly Important Spiritual Resources of the
A.A. Program Be Forgotten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Studying
the Steps Mindful of Other Major Contributing Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Start
Taking Your Steps Precisely as Directed by the Big Book—Then Make Your
Judgments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Consider
This Possible Biblical View of the 12 Steps Using History as Your Guide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Contents </b>of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Utilizing Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots
for Recovery Today</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Spiritual Beginnings of A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Bible in Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Quiet Time, Morning Watch, and
Meditation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Oxford Group and Alcoholics
Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne Smith, “Mother of A.A.,”
“Founder,” Dr. Bob’s Wife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Books and Materials Early AAs
Read<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Utilizing A.A.’s Spiritual Roots
Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><b>Contents</b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span>of</span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><i>When
Early AAs Were Cured and Why</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
They Were Saying at Yale (in the 1940's about the Miracle of God’s Cure
for Drunks)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Spiritual Origins of Alcoholics Anonymous:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A Much Needed Historical Perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bill Wilson's "Religious" Background<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Dr. Bob's Bible training, Christian Beliefs, and
Religious <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Affiliations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Historical
Void Resulting from Failure to Distinguish Between Differing Inputs of Founder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Bible Dr. Bob Source<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Akron Genesis and Its Bible/Dr. Bob Source<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Dr.
Bob's Youth, Religious Training, and Christian Church Involvement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Dr. Bob's Assertions on the Bible's Importance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Old Fashioned Prayer and Revival in Akron
Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Christian Endeavor Movement Impact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Descriptions of Christian Endeavor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Oxford Group Bill W. Source<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Rowland Hazard Starting Point<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bill Wilson's Conversion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Real Message as to the New Man in Christ Not Yet Fashioned, and Not from Bill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Melding
the Two Different Sources Was the Appointed Task of Bill W.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Akron Crucible Where It All Began<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Real Program of Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">An
Overview of What They Did in Akron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Frank Amos Reports in 1938<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Big Book Publication in 1939<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Akron A.A. Recovery Pamphlets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Special Role of Three Women Pioneers—Anne Smith, Henrietta Seiberling, Eleanor
Forde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Real Spiritual Roots of Early A.A.'s Program of Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Six Major Biblical Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Quiet
Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Anne
Smith's Journal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Teachings of Rev. Shoemaker <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Life-changing Program of the Oxford Group <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 2in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The
Christian Literature the Pioneers Studied<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Other "Spiritual" Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Carl Jung<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">William James<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The “New Thought” crowd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The "Farther Out" crowd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bill Wilson's Tight Rope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Confusions Among the Conclusions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who
Let the "goofy gods" into A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Who Is God as Early AAs Spoke of Him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bill's
Injected Substitutionary Words—Never Intended to Invent "Other" gods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Not Intended as False gods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">“God as We Understood Him”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">“A Power Greater Than Ourselves”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">“Higher Power”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Enter the "goofy gods" through the
Back Door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A.A. People May Be Sick But They Are Not Stupid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Is There Any Prospect That the Nonsense Will Go?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Bible and Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Overview<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Yahweh, the Creator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Three Segments Dr. Bob Considered Essential<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Additional Parts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A Different Scene Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A Study of the Sermon on the Mount in A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A Study of the Book of James in A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">A Study of 1 Corinthians 13 in A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Chap. 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Creator and the Cure of Alcoholism: Miracle or Myth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">What Is the "Alcoholism" of Which the
Pioneers Were Cured?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The Countless Claims of Cure by Early AAs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">There Is Nothing New When It Comes to God's
Miracles and Cures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">The A.A. Detour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 2in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Back
on the Path to Yahweh and Accomplishing the "Impossible"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Cure! A Miracle or a Myth. You Decide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Appendix
1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Creator's Personal Name Is
Yahweh<br />
Appendix 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rev. Sam Shoemaker, an A.A.
"Co-founder" and Spiritual Source</span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><br />
Appendix 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Miracles Not to Be
Forgotten—Miracles through the Ages Documented<br />
Appendix 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For A.A. Pioneers,
Alcoholism Was Curable and Cured<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK7"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;">Contents of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Why
Early A.A. Succeeded:<o:p></o:p></b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Good
Book in Alcoholics Anonymous Yesterday and Today<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(A Bible
Study Primer for AAs and Other 12-Steppers)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;">Foreword<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;">Preface<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;">Acknowledgments<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The
Way Out (The real heart of early A.A. and its quest for deliverance by Almighty
God)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 21pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What
Early AAs Said about Reading the Bible (The real Good Book endorsements by AAs)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The
Bible and Recovery (What the Bible was in A.A., what has been lost, where to
find God)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Begin
Your Bible Study by Learning about God (God’s existence, kids, name, and
qualities)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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to Learn (Prayer, renewed mind, Holy Spirit, resisting the Devil, believing,
understanding the Bible as an Eastern Book, figures of speech, manuscripts,
word studies)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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the Bible)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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on the Platter Today<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(What God says; the
Bible in A.A.; know the Bible, be bold about God, His Son, and His Word; grow;
learn your resources; pass it on; trust God!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-81966217998832449862015-04-10T20:18:00.001-07:002015-04-22T18:14:14.743-07:00Alcoholics Anonymous History: What's Missing from A.A. Today?<a href="http://alcoholicsanonymoushistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/whats-missing-from-aa-today.html?spref=bl">Alcoholics Anonymous History: What's Missing from A.A. Today?</a>: Why is it that, no sooner did early AAs find the solution -- the cure--for their malady did intellectuals, academics, and publishers enable the solution (reliance on the Creator) and the source (the Bible) to yield to secular programs, nonsense gods, and powerless idols?Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-84958906264895778262015-04-10T20:12:00.002-07:002015-04-10T20:12:15.828-07:00What's Missing from A.A. Today?<br />
Why is it that, no sooner did early AAs find the solution -- the cure--for their malady did intellectuals, academics, and publishers enable a complete revision of the solution by the time A.A.'s basic text had published a "new version" that opened the door to nonsense gods, higher powers, "spirituality," and eradication of the role of the Creator in A.A.'s original program.<br />
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As one of A.A.'s longest sober pioneers wrote me: "Dick, if you take God out of A.A., there is nothing left!" In other words, as the Creator began to be called a Coke Bottle, a chair, a table, a light bulb, Santa Claus, "Something," "Somebody," or an undefined higher power, the power and love and forgiveness, and healing resource that the pioneers had depended upon--the power of God--began to be ridiculed, eliminated, and denigrated.<br />
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Four years after A.A. was founded, the effective, workable original Christian Fellowship program slid down the money drain and was replaced by "models," "exercises," bogus gods, and finally "nothing at all."<br />
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That need not be our remembrance. Suffering alcoholics and addicts can and should learn how their original program (summarized on page 131 of <em>DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers) </em>was founded and developed on the principles of the Bible--particularly on the Book of James, Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13. So said the founders. So said the early literature that quoted the founders. And so they pointed out that they had no Steps, no Traditions, no Big Books, no war stories, and no meetings like those seen today.<br />
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The answer? Learn and study and adapt old school A.A. today so that neither God, nor Jesus Christ, nor the Bible are ridiculed and discarded, but are unearthed and used today.<br />
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-86043083196313430142015-04-09T15:33:00.002-07:002015-04-09T15:33:42.806-07:00AA Benefactors, Books, Prisoners<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr><w:sdt docpart="9312332A2B5B41ECAA835FCDC109865E" id="89512082" storeitemid="X_256FB128-B37C-4A7C-B1FF-2356B985717E" text="t" title="Post Title" xpath="/ns0:BlogPostInfo/ns0:PostTitle"></w:sdt></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We began researching, traveling, interviewing, speaking, and
publishing my A.A. history books about 1990. About the time of the Seattle
Convention, I attended mostly to learn if what I had heard about A.A.’s roots
in the Bible could be verified, could help others still suffering, and was a
story that needed to be told.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since that date, we have published some 46 titles and 1700
articles laying out the history of A.A. and the role that God, His Son Jesus
Christ, and the Bible have played in recovery, One alcoholic who was a priest
began joking about the quest. He said he didn’t favor A.A. But he asserted that
an “amateur,” a “hobbyist,” and a “non-professional” (unnamed but quite clearly
Dick B.) was trying to prove that every line in the Big Book came from the
Bible, He doted on his criticism and wrote five or six articles over 25 years.
He coached a lady who organized “aa history buffs,” And he began writing that
those who saw the importance of God, the Bible, and reliance on the Creator
were trying to “Christianize A.A.” and lacked integrity. His incessant writing was
about not-god-ness, “spirituality,” and a higher power that could be “something,”
“somebody.” Or anything that dumped God from A.A.’s roots and substituted a
mythical spirituality of imperfection as its idol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like many an A.A. newcomer, I had devoted myself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to active service in A.A., to study of the Steps,
the Big Books, the biblical training and teaching of A.A.’s founders, and to
hands-on help for the newcomers still suffering. I sponsored more than 100 men,
was invited to speak widely across the United States, and began meeting A.A.
pioneers like Dr. Bob’s children, Rev. Shoemaker’s wife and daughters, and
Henrietta Seiberling’s three children. And as I did, I became aware that many
later A.A. newcomers were calling Christian members “Jesus freaks.” They
invented a deity they called “higher power,” called that higher power a rock,
Santa Claus, a chair, a table, and the Big Dipper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Soon my reading, research, active contact with real
fellow-historians, and real “twelfth steppers” made clear that pioneer A.A. was
totally unlike the “new version” of the program that Wilson wrote and advocated
in 1939. AAs began asking that I write “the rest of the story.” And they were
objecting to the ridicule they received in meetings when they mentioned God,
Jesus, the Bible—even prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A doctor-and director of a counselor training institute in
Florida whom I had come to know well and with whom I had spoken at various conferences
said to me: “Dick, why don’t you write a book which tells us where all these
crazy names like “higher power,” “light bulb,” “rock,” and “light bulb” came
from. And I did just that – locating all the “scholars” and “counselors” and
leaders who were regularly referring to some illusory nonsense god like higher
power or rock or “something.” I took all the Wilson nonsense about a “Power,”
about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“as we understood Him,” and about
self-made religion; and I documented the many people and places who had fallen
into that trap and wound up with self-made religion, absurd names for “a” god,
and nonsense deities like a Coke Bottle. The book was published as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God and Alcoholism: Our Growing Opportunity
in the 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> Century</i> (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications,
Inc., 2002)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This story begins there. I had a fine young AA sponsee
working with me here on Maui for about six months. He was an excellent
researcher and writer. One day he was watching TV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and heard Governor Linda Lingle of Hawaii
talking about the “ice” problem here. He phoned her and said we had a host of
books on recovery, dependence, God, the Bible, the Steps, and the successes of
pioneer A.A. He said we wanted to donate them to the Hawaii prison system. She
referred him to Lt. Governor “Duke” Aiona. Aiona asked what it would cost. And
he was told they were free and that we would send a box for each of the
fourteen prisons. Aiona jumped on the offer and wrote every warden directing
that they receive and use the books. A lady benefactor donated copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“God and Alcoholism” </i>to each prison;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and Governor Aiona became our friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wrote that he had been reading the book. He felt the meetings in prison were
not helpful; but he was sure that he would read and circulate my book if it
were sent to him in prison. This we did. And it was one of many which were sent
to other wardens and resulted in communications to us from the prisoner or his
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wardens, to the benefactors who paid for the books and shipping, and to the
prisoners who have been blessed to have them! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-56154829218381235442015-04-01T19:41:00.002-07:002015-04-01T23:07:02.962-07:00"God as We Understood Him": The Compromise That Opened the A.A. Doors<div align="center">
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At my first A.A. meeting, I was
delighted. Friendliness, laughter, concern, suggestions. All came pouring
toward me at the “Wednesday Night What It’s Like Now" meeting –later to
become my Home Group. At my second meeting, I made a speech about needing help
with a pending court appearance. And a non-attorney offered to come with me; he
said he had studied law in Brazil. By my third meeting, I was beginning to
detox heavily. Yet I didn’t know what detoxing was, what was happening, or that
I was becoming really sick. They told me to use orange juice and honey. I
searched high and low for honey, bought a bag of oranges, put them in the
microwave, and never saw them again. But I made another speech. This time, I
stood at the door of the “Friday Night Beginners’ Meeting," announced that
I had been very frightened, said I had seen “God as we understood Him" on
the wall, had prayed to God as I did understand Him, and had really found
peace, for that night at least. Unquestionably, however, I was a little crazy—as
only A.A. newcomers can be. A few days later, I had three grand mal seizures—the
first one at a meeting during which I almost bit my tongue in half. I was
trundled off in an ambulance to the Emergency Room and then Intensive Care. In
a day or two, I checked in to a treatment center. But that’s another story. The
point here is that I stuck, and have stuck, with A.A. I believed I could and
would receive help because A.A. had seemed to recommend entrusting my life to
the care of God as I understood Him. I’ve since found out that thousands have
done the same thing in the more than 79 years since A.A.’s founding in June
1935. They, like myself, have received help. Some are simply “dry”—still suffering
from “untreated alcoholism.” Some say they are “in recovery.” Some of us say I’ve
“recovered.” Some of us—just as cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob, and “Alcoholic
Anonymous Number Three” (Akron attorney Bill D.) said—say we have been “cured.”
Some of us, who are believers, are very clear that we have been delivered by
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It didn’t take very long for me
to get an answer to that question. Of course it wasn’t! And how did I find out.
Well, I’ve already covered the myriad of “higher power” and “power greater than
ourselves” phrases that were floating around the rooms and in recent 12 Step
literature. But no rational person could say these have anything whatever to do
with our Creator. These “powers” seemed to mean just about anything to the
confused crowd with which I hung out. Whether new-found A.A. friends had been
lawyers like myself, painters like my first sponsor, warehousemen like his
sponsor, teachers like my roommate, or “consultants” (a handy A.A. word for
unemployed, devastated, newcomers), all had different ideas about this “power
greater than themselves.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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My first sponsor did occasionally
talk about God. His sponsor talked about a “higher power.” My roommate talked
about witchcraft. Others talked about a “rock,” a “Big Dipper,” and a “Group of
Drunks” as their “higher power.” Some even offered to “loan” out their own “higher
power” until the newer person could find his own. Which, they said, could be
anything greater than himself. One authoritative-sounding fellow assured those
present at almost any and every Friday Night Beginners’ Meeting that his “higher
power” was Ralph. Somehow, I was able to resist buying in to that one. However,
his name for “a” god still rings loudly in my ears. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>But, as my period of sobriety moved
forward, and my continued need for God’s help increased by leaps and bounds, I
determined that there was no common agreement in the A.A rooms where I was
going daily about this God “as we understood Him” or this “higher power.” There
clearly was no consensus as to “who” or “what” this so-called “higher power”
was. In fact, many an older member has simply said in my presence that he
couldn’t and didn’t need to understand “it.” Rather, he just needed to keep his
“program” very very simple. All one had to keep in mind, these members
proclaimed, was: “Just don’t drink. And go to meetings.” I have had no trouble
following that advice for years. But as one writer said, “Drinking’s not the
problem.” And I realized these keep-it-simple guys had rarely advanced to any
understanding of God. Certainly not that they would admit to. Almost none had
read the Bible, gone to any church, or developed any interest whatever in “religion.”
They bragged about A.A.’s being “spiritual, but not religious;” even though few
had the slightest idea what that meant. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Where Did This Modifying Phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as
we understood Him</i>” Originate?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t quote or cite the
circulating accounts about where this phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” came from which was used in Steps Three and
Eleven as a modifier of the word “God.” Many are wrong. Most are conflicting.
In fact, until my research was under way, I had found no one who had even
mentioned this modifying phrase in the same breath with A.A. The story tellers
had simply ignored the very probable, real source—the Reverend Samuel Moor
Shoemaker, Jr., Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Shoemaker had been a vibrant
leader of “A First Century Christian Fellowship” (later also known as “the Oxford
Group”) in America. He had long been a friend and supporter of Lutheran
minister Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman who had founded “A First Century Christian
Fellowship” in the autumn of 1922. Shoemaker even provided housing for the
virtual American headquarters of the Oxford Group in Calvary House, next to his
Calvary Church in New York. He allowed Dr. Buchman to live there when he was in
the New York area. And Shoemaker wrote dozens of Oxford Group books, pamphlets,
and articles until he split with its founder in 1941. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Actually, one can find many words
and phrases in Sam Shoemaker’s books that seem to have been incorporated almost
verbatim in Bill W.’s Big Book, talks, and writings. Bill often sang the
praises of Reverend Shoemaker, dubbed Sam a “co-founder” of A.A., said Sam had
been a wellspring of its ideas, exchanged lots of correspondence with Sam, and
had him speak at two A.A. International Conventions—St. Louis in 1955 and Long
Beach in 1960. Sam was also invited to, and did, write several articles for
A.A.’s “house organ,” the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A.A. Grapevine</i>.
Bill had many a talk with Sam Shoemaker before he (Bill) drafted A.A.’s basic
text. Bill submitted a draft manuscript to Shoemaker for review prior to the
book’s publication in April 1939. And Bill had asked Sam Shoemaker to write the
Twelve Steps. Shoemaker, however, had declined—saying the Steps should be
written by an alcoholic, namely, Bill. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rev. Shoemaker was the closest
thing to a spiritual mentor that Bill W. had, prior to his completion and
publication of A.A.’s Big Book in the spring of 1939. Bill had not actively
participated in a church since early adulthood. [He had participated in Sunday
school at East Dorset Congregational Church while he was growing up. (Bill may
have also attended Sunday school at the Congregational Church in Rutland, but I
have not been able to confirm that as yet). He had also participated in events
at the First Congregational Church in Manchester (required by Burr and Burton
Seminary) and services at a local church of his choice on Sundays in
Northfield, Vermont (required by Norwich University).] Bill had become, in his
own words, “a conservative atheist.” Bill’s wife Lois, as well as A.A.’s first
archivist Ruth Hock, reported that Bill had read practically no religious
literature. Bill himself said he “hadn't looked in the Bible” until he moved in
with Dr. Bob and Anne Smith in the summer of 1935—the period when A.A. was
founded, and when Bill and Bob had had nightly discussions of its principles
and practices. The foregoing claims are clearly wrong, but have persisted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The foregoing facts about Bill,
A.A., and Sam Shoemaker can be found specifically documented in a number of
writings. I have covered them all in my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A.</i>, 2d ed. (<a href="http://www.dickb.com/newlight.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/newlight.shtml</span></a>).
I’ve also covered them in my books about the Oxford Group and Sam
Shoemaker:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous: A
Design for Living That Works</i>, 2d ed. (<a href="http://www.dickb.com/Oxford.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/Oxford.shtml</span></a>)
and Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good Morning!: Quiet Time,
Morning Watch, Meditation, and A.A.</i> (<a href="http://www.dickb.com/goodmorn.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/goodmorn.shtml</span></a>).
I’ve also discussed them in Bill Pittman and Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courage to Change</i>; and in Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 2d ed. (<a href="http://www.dickb.com/Akron.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/Akron.shtml</span></a>).
Bill himself made scattered references to the Book of James; Jesus’s Sermon on
the Mount; 1 Corinthians 13; as well as to God as “Creator,” “Maker,” “Father,”
“Father of Light,” and “God of our fathers” in various places in A.A. General
Service Conference-approved or A.A. Grapevine publications such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Language of the Heart</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Pass It On,’ </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous,</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best
of the Grapevine</i> volumes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Specific Examples in Shoemaker’s Writings of the “God as we understand
Him” Idea<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Surrender to God</b></div>
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Sam wrote much about the importance of surrender—surrender to
God! Among his papers at the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas, I
found the following: <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was nothing actually new to be learned from the
experience when related. “I just gave my life over to God” or “I surrender to
Christ.” [Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Light on
Alcoholism</i>, 2d ed., 92; (<a href="http://www.dickb.com/newlight.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/newlight.shtml</span></a>)].</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other Examples of
Sam’s Surrender Language <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God. . . . A man is born again when the control of
his life, its center and its direction pass from himself to God (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National Awakening</i>, 57). <o:p></o:p></div>
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One may say that the whole
development of Christianity in inwardness has consisted in little more than the
greater and greater emphasis attached to this crisis of self-surrender
(Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Realizing Religion</i>, 30). <o:p> </o:p></div>
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Surrender is not conversion, we
cannot convert ourselves; but it is the first step in the process (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Confident Faith</i>, 41). <o:p> </o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sam on the Act of
Surrender—a Decision<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Decision. . . . We must help people
to make an act of self-surrender to Christ, which renounces all known sins,
accepts Him as Saviour, and begins Christian life in earnest (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Church Alive</i>, 41). <o:p></o:p></div>
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He went into his room, knelt by his
bed, and gave his life in surrender to God (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of the Second Birth</i>, 175).<o:p> </o:p></div>
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She surrendered to God her groundless
fears, and with them turned over her life for His direction (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of the Second Birth</i>, 82).<o:p> </o:p></div>
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That night I decided to “launch out
into the deep:” and with the decision to cast my will and my life on God, there
came an indescribable sense of relief, of burdens dropping away (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice-Born Ministers</i>, 134). <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And Then, Surrender as
Much of Yourself as You Can<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to as Much of God as
You Understand <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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So they prayed together, opening
their minds to as much of God as he understood. . . (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of the Second Birth</i>, 47). </div>
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So he said that he would “surrender
as much of himself as he could, to as much of Christ as he understood” (Shoemaker,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of the Second Birth, </i>25. See
also, and compare “In Memoriam” Princeton, The Graduate Council, June 10, 1956,
2-3; and Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Become a
Christian</i>, 72). </div>
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The finding of God, moreover, is a
progressive discovery; and there is so much more for all of us to learn about
him. (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Find God</i>, 1).
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Begin honestly where you are.
Horace Bushnell once said, “Pray to the dim God, confessing the dimness for
honesty’s sake.” I was with a man who prayed his first real prayer in these
words: “O God, if there be a God, help me now because I need it.” God sent him
help. He found faith. He found God. . . God will come through to you and make
Himself known. (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How to Find
God</i>, 6). [See and compare: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i>, 3rd ed., 37: “But He has come to all who have honestly sought
Him. When we drew near to Him, He disclosed Himself to us!” See also the Bible
book so popular with the pioneers—James: “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw
nigh to you.” James 4:8 (KJV).]<o:p></o:p></div>
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[A]ny honest person can begin the
spiritual experiment by surrendering “as much of himself as he can, to as much
of Christ as he understands” (Shoemaker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Extraordinary
Living for Ordinary Men</i>, 76). <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was no talk at all about surrendering to as much of “Ralph”
or to as much of “a lightbulb” or to as much of “a tree” as you understand!
A.A.’s Big Book implored: May you find God—and not just some A.A. group! Groups
are found in meeting schedules, not the Bible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Said Sam in substance: You simply start where you are in
your understanding. You surrender as much of yourself as you can. To as much of
God as you understand. Then, added Sam, God will come through to you, make
Himself known, and enable you to understand more. You will come to believe. You
will find God, said Sam. God will make Himself known. God will not be making Himself
known “a rock,” “a tree,” “a coke bottle,” or “a radiator.” He will make known
Himself—God, our Creator! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Similar Ideas and Words in Other Oxford Group Writings<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Stephen Foot was one of the most
popular Oxford Group writers of the early 1930's. Foot used a slightly
different form of expression. It presented the same idea of initial, limited
understanding. It spoke instead of initial, limited knowledge of God
(surrendering all that you know of self to all that you know of God). Foot’s
language was also used by Dr. Bob’s wife Anne in her personal journal, and by
long-time Oxford Group activist James D. Newton in his biographical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncommon Friends </i>title. These stalwart
Oxford Group admirers were also readers of, and thoroughly acquainted with, the
works of Rev. Sam Shoemaker. Respectively, they wrote: <o:p> </o:p></div>
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Life began for me with a surrender
of all that I know of self to all that I knew of God (Foot, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life Began Yesterday</i>, 12-13. See also
James D. Newton, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncommon Friends</i>,
154). </div>
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<o:p></o:p> </div>
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Are you prepared to do his will,
let the cost be what it may? That is surrender of all one knows of self to all
one knows of God. (Foot, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life Began
Yesterday</i>, 175). </div>
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[In her journal, Dr. Bob’s wife
Anne Smith twice wrote the following idea:] “Try to bring a person to a
decision to ‘surrender as much of himself as he knows to as much of God as he
knows.’ Stay with him until he makes a decision and says it aloud.” (Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939</i>, 3rd ed.,
25, 97: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/annesm.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/annesm.shtml</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Look at What Bill W. Said before the “Atheism”</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Compromise</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Before he compromised and allowed the replacement of the
word “God” with the phrase “a Power greater than ourselves” in Step Two, and the
modification of the word “God” in Steps Three and Eleven by addition of the
phrase “as we understood Him” following it in Steps Three and Eleven, Bill was
telling a far different, far more accurate, and far more consistent story in
terms of what he had learned from his sponsor Ebby T., from Dr. Bob’s wife Anne
and her personal journal, and from Shoemaker and Oxford Group writings and
talks. Bill wrote: <o:p> </o:p></div>
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This is what my
friend [Ebby T.] suggested I do: Turn my face to God as I understand Him and
say to Him with earnestness—complete honesty and abandon—that I henceforth
place my life at His disposal and Direction forever. [“Bill Wilson’s Original
Story,” a 34-page document I found at Bill’s home at Stepping Stones, page 30,
lines 989-992].<o:p> </o:p></div>
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[Ebby T. said to
Bill:] So, call on God as you understand God. Try prayer. [W.W., “The Fellowship
of Alcoholics Anonymous,” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quarterly
Journal of Studies on Alcohol</i>. Yale University, 1945, 463.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Reciting in
A.A.’s own basic text, precisely how he had followed Ebby T.’s instructions,
Bill wrote:] There I humbly offered myself to God, as I then understood Him, to
do with me as He would. I placed myself unreservedly under His care and
direction. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 3rd
ed., 13.]<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Bill did not turn his face to, or
call on, or humbly offer himself to, “a radiator,” “a tree,” “a light bulb,” a “Group
of Drunks,” or any other blatantly-idolatrous symbol. He turned to God as he
(Bill W,) did then and there understand God. That is a piece of ignored A.A.
history that should be emblazoned on the desk of everyone who tries to sell
snake oil to an unwary A.A. newcomer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Using language very similar to that used by Sam Shoemaker in
his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Confident Faith,</i> Bill wrote
quite eloquently: <o:p> </o:p></div>
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When we became
alcoholics crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we
had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He
is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be? [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 3rd ed., 53. And
see: (1) Hebrews 11:6b (KJV): “. . . [H]e that cometh to God must believe that
he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and (2) Shoemaker,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Confident Faith</i>, 20-21: God is, or He
isn’t. You leap one way or the other.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill did not assert that “a
radiator” either is or it isn’t. He did not claim that “a lightbulb” either is
or it isn’t. He didn’t declare that “Santa Claus” either is or he isn’t.
Consistent with the words of Hebrews 11:6 in the Bible, and the reasoning of
his friend Sam Shoemaker, Bill W. made the very simple and rational statement
that God either is, or He isn’t. Then, following the instructions of the Oxford
Group, Shoemaker, and his friend Ebby T., Bill W. “surrendered as much of
himself as he understood to as much of God as he (Bill) then understood.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Start with Shoemaker, the Oxford Group, and Dr. Bob’s Wife<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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That’s it, folks. The story of
how the “God <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” language
came to be inserted in the Big Book and its Twelve Steps seems to have been
much distorted by the claim of an A.A. old-timer Jim B. that he (Jim) was
responsible for this modifying phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as
we understood Him</i>.” We thoroughly explored that claim, just as far as we
were able; and we found that Bill W. had never acknowledged Jim’s claim. As we
researched Shoemaker’s writings, Oxford Group books, and Anne Smith’s personal journal,
we saw a far different history that suggested a far different origin of the
phrase. For one thing, we saw that Jim B. had not been sober until long after
Stephen Foot, Sam Shoemaker, Jim Newton, and Anne Smith had tendered the
commonly-used expression that you surrender to as much of God as you
understand! (See Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Turning Point</i>,
172-181: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/Turning.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/Turning.shtml</span></a>;
and Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939</i>,
3rd ed., 26, n.10: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/annesm.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/annesm.shtml</span></a>).
Don’t start with an avowed atheist (Jim B.) who apparently was neither sober
nor present when the phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we
understood Him</i>” was suggested and substituted in Step Three and Step
Eleven. Start instead with the Bible students (Sam Shoemaker and Dr. Bob’s wife
Anne) who were close to Bill W. in the pre-publication years and who had been expressing,
for beginners, this idea years before A.A.’s Big Book was first published. They
had an understanding of God. They felt others could gain an understanding and
knowledge by starting with whatever understanding they had at the time of their
“surrender” to God. Quite clearly, Bill and his friends were talking about the
Creator as He is described in Genesis—the God they understood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gloria
Deo</span></i></b></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-40456558836533074622015-03-29T03:11:00.002-07:002015-03-29T03:11:45.645-07:00"This Is Life for Us; You Can't Keep Us Out."<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;">“This Is Life for Us; You Can’t Keep Us Out.”</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;">“Tradition Nine states: ‘A.A., as such, ought never to be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.’ . . .</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>. . .</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;">What we really mean, of course, is that A.A. can never have an organized direction or government. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>. . . It [Alcoholics Anonymous] does not at any point conform to the pattern of a government. Neither its General Service Conference, its General Service Board, nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone hand out any punishment. . . . Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, ‘This is life for us; you can’t keep us out.’ . . . An A.A. may take advice or suggestions from more experienced members, but he surely will not take orders. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One would think that A.A.’s Headquarters and General Service Conference would be exceptions. Surely the people there would have to have some authority. But long ago Trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that. . . . We recognize that we cannot dictate to fellow members, individually or collectively.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>. . . Great suffering and great love are A.A.’s disciplinarians; we have no others.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i> </span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;">(New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1957), 118-20]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><em>Gloria Deo</em></strong></div>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-35565557496049094732015-03-25T22:22:00.000-07:002015-03-25T22:22:14.122-07:00“Old-School” A.A.—Yesterday and Today<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Old-School” A.A.—Yesterday and Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">By Dick B. and Ken B.</span></div>
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
rights reserved<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">As we feature the
highly-effective “old-school” A.A. as seen in early Akron and Cleveland days,
recovery ideas, and Christian fellowship treasures—“the rest of the story”—we urge
individuals, meetings, groups, conferences, seminars, programs, and fellowships
to add to their repertoire presentations that will enhance alcohol and
addiction healing and cure; and prevent relapses, confusion, and diverse
experiments today.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">A Guide to the founding,
development, glitches, detours, needs, information, and improvements of A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">First Century
Christianity and the Book of Acts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Three centuries
of Christian miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Early emphasis on
conversion, baptism, and the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">1870’s—Revivals,
and evangelists; e.g., Moody, Sankey, Meyer. Folger, Booth, McAuley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Christian
concerns for unsaved, down-and-outers, and derelicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Young Men’s
Christian Association, Congregationalism, Salvation Army, United Society of
Christian Endeavor, the “Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury, Rescue
Missions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Emphasis of
churches, academies on the Bible, healing, temperance, and conversion meetings,
and revivals. Prohibition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The scene just before
A.A.—Bill W. Dr. Bob, Bill D.—How the first three got sober.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hospitalization, Bible study, prayer, hospital visits, quiet time, circulated
literature, Anne Smith morning quiet time; prayers, reading of the Bible,
surrender to God at the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Counting noses of recoveries in November 1937 in Akron.
Upwards of 40 staying sober.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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late February 1938; and 16 Christian principles and practices implementing the
seven points of the program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to have been based on six steps: No!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teachings and God. John Henry Fitzhugh M., a Christian, argued to have
Christian and biblical materials included. Bill’s partner Hank P. wanted the
book to be irreligious; he demanded that the word “God” be excluded, but was
partial to a “universal” book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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compromised. They replaced “God” in Step Two with the phrase “a Power greater than
ourselves.” They added the modifying phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” after the word “God” in Steps Three and
Eleven. Wilson claimed these changes paved a “broad highway” upon which
“anybody” could travel. Wilson claimed this was the great contribution of
atheists and agnostics although they were not identified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“higher power.” Also, a “Power.” Nonsense “gods” such as “Mickey Mouse,” a
“chair,” a “table,” the “Big Dipper,” a light bulb, and a door knob followed.
Finally, A.A.’s Conference-approved literature claimed one didn’t have to believe
in anything at all to “take” the Steps. Certainly not “God!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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source of the basic ideas in the 12 Steps. Wilson claimed the Steps came from three
main sources: Professor William James, Rev. Sam Shoemaker, and Dr. Silkworth.
Finally, their source was said to mean a “Power” was anything greater than oneself,
or nothing at all. Is the newcomer to get sober and stay sober with a
professor, a reverend, a physician, a Power, a Bible, or nothing at all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">** For more information, please contact Dick B. at
1-808-874-4876 or <a href="mailto:DickB@DickB.com"><span style="color: blue;">DickB@DickB.com</span></a> **<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-47875113793866545372015-03-19T16:01:00.000-07:002015-09-08T12:43:37.996-07:00A.A.’s Christian Predecessors<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excerpted
from:</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Guidebook to</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bill W.,
Dr. Bob, and the Cure of Alcoholism: </span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Rest of the Story”</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Video Class by Dick B. and Ken B.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">© 2015
Anonymous. All rights reserved<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc317412376"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">The
Vermont of Dr. Bob and Bill W.’s Youth</span></i></b></a><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">T. D. Seymour Bassett’s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gods of the Hills,</i> is a scholarly,
comprehensive study and report on Vermont Congregationalism as it existed when
A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob were growing up in the Green Mountain
State.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> We just acquired another important Vermont history
resource: Michael Sherman, Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey Potash, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont</i>
(Barre: VT: Vermont Historical Society, 2004). And two more that are relevant
to the Vermont picture.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Of particular interest in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedom and Unity </i>title are the materials on the origins, the state
constitution, the Revolution, the admission to the union, and the strong
foundation in religious orthodoxy redirected to bolster religious revival and
personal reform with the framework of Congregationalism (pp. 73-143); the
religious trends of Federalist and Calvinist Congregationalism; the
non-Calvinist sects; the evangelical awakenings; the latter Congregationalist
doctrine of election; the legislation enabling Towns and Parishes to tax
residents to enable the erection of Houses for public Worship, and support of
Ministers of the Gospel; the Standing Order abolition that made Vermont the
first New England government to cut the tie of church and state; “popular
evangelism,” revivals; temperance, and prohibition (pp. 145-211).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The study of Congregationalism in
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emphasis on youth [p. 192].<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Association [pp. 163, 232-39].</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pluralism which encompassed the
work of the Salvation Army [pp. 215, 231-32].<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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evangelists Dwight L. Moody and Ira Sankey [p. 193].</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></sup><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></sup><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></sup><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[8]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Christian Endeavor [pp. 215, 240-42].</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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early nineteenth century revivalists shaped religion until the 1840’s. Although
the technique became habitual in the camp meetings and urban revivals down
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the unexpected trauma of the Civil War experience, comrades and chaplains tried
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in Vermont continued to recruit many converts to carry the gospel across the
world, and in the state they worked against liquor and slavery, but focused on
new, political means” [p. 141].</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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the Moody and Sankey Vermont campaign in October 1877,] . . . inquirers and
converts asked what to do after the excitement of Moody’s meetings. He told
them: ‘Join a church; take communion; attend church meetings; repeat Bible
verses; help others resist temptation; join the YMCA. . . .’ [H]ome visitors
supplied Bibles, urged householders to go to church and Sunday school, and
found some attending the YMCA who did not go to church” [p. 195].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Vermont</span></b><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first church established in
Vermont was a Congregational church. The First Congregational Church of
Bennington, Vermont—also known as “the Old First Church”—was “gathered” on
December 3, 1762. It was also the first Protestant congregation in the New
Hampshire Grants. The current meeting house was built in 1805.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[10]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> [Bicentennial Discourse and Sermon, on August 13, 2006].
The church is located on Monument Avenue in Bennington, Vermont. It was added
to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As illustrated with frequency in our
new video series and accompanying guidebook here, the families (grandparents
and parents) of both Bill W. and Dr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob
were much involved with Congregational Churches. So were Bill and Bob
themselves. Dr. Bob and his family attended the North Congregational Church of
St. Johnsbury, Vermont. As Bob stated in A.A.’s Big Book, the Smiths frequently
attended five times a week. And the Griffith and Wilson families were intimately
involved in the Congregational church located next door to the houses of each
family. All three buildings as restored are still present in East Dorset,
Vermont—the Griffith Library on one side; the East Dorset Congregational Church
in the middle; and the Wilson House on the other side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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matriculated, was dominated by Congregationalists. The Fairbanks family,
consisting of Thaddeus Fairbanks, Deacon Erastus Fairbanks, and Joseph
Fairbanks were very wealthy, businessmen, state-wide Congregational leaders,
much involved in North Congregational Church, much connected with the YMCA, and
officiated at the Academy. The Congregational influence in the little St.
Johnsbury village spilled over into the academy requirement that a
Congregational Church be attended once a week. Daily chapel was required of St.
Johnsbury Academy “scholars” (i.e., students)—with sermons, hymns, reading of
Scripture, and prayers.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Wilson’s families (the Wilsons
and the Griffiths) had homes immediately adjacent to East Dorset Congregational
Church in East Dorset where Bill was born and raised. Bill’s parents Gilman
Barrows Wilson and Emily Ella Griffith were married in that church and lived
for a time in its parsonage. Both families regularly attended that church. The
Wilsons owned Pew 15 in the church. Bill attended the Sunday school. And there
are specific biographical records of Bill’s mention of and attendance at
revivals, sermons, temperance, and conversion meetings.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A reference in Stepping Stones
materials: “Books_at_Stepping_Stones.pdf” makes it quite apparent that Bill
Wilson was awarded a New Testament (with a copyright date of 1901—was it an
American Standard Version of 1901?)]: That New Testament was inscribed:
"Will Wilson, for perfect attendance at Sunday School, Fourth Quarter 1906
from his pastor D. Miner Rogers East Dorset Vt. Jan 1, 1907 II
Tim.3/14.15."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As documented elsewhere: When he was
enrolled in the Congregationalist dominated Burr and Burton Seminary,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill Wilson took a four year Bible study course there;
attended daily chapel with sermons, hymns, prayers, and reading of Scripture.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Castle in the
Pasture book </i>contains excellent photos of the officials, the Seminary
Building with bell tower, the North Chapel in the 1890’s, the original First
Congregational Church in Manchester Village,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[15]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> many YMCA and athletic activities, and two pages on Bill
Wilson and his lady love, Bertha Bamford. And students frequently marched down
to the First Congregational Church from the Seminary for services (page 67).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The prominent St. Johnsbury leader
Henry Fairbanks presented a paper before the annual Congregational state
convention in 1895, titled “The Influence of Congregationalism upon Vermont.”
And Fairbanks wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christianity revived after centuries of departure from the congregational
principles of St. Stephen and the Jerusalem elders.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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Christian Association.</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George Williams, a draper, founded
the Young Men’s Christian Association in London on June 6, 1844. The first YMCA
in the United States was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 29,
1851.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brethren—with the YMCA’s non-denominational approach—conducted canvasses to
bring the Gospel to non-Christians and “awakening” to Christians in the New
England area.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[18]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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laymen were largely responsible for organizing what became “The Great
Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury. It was a widely-reported event which
completely transformed the community of St. Johnsbury, resulted in construction
of many churches, and produced conversion of a large portion of the population
to God through His Son Jesus Christ.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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records many well-known evangelists who held campaigns in Vermont—as well as in
America and abroad—around the time Bill W. and Dr. Bob were growing up there. (It
also records Christian evangelists who put on large public meetings after Bill
had returned to New York following his service in the Army in World War I,
and/or who had put on meetings in Akron after Dr. Bob had moved there to work
as a medical doctor.) Moreover, many espoused the integrity of the Bible and
the necessity for salvation; and they did this through “personal work;” revivals;
books; and huge, widely reported meetings for half a century. Their efforts
brought people to God through His Son Jesus Christ; and they often focused on
healing even drunkards.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> For example, the following reported the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">healing of drunkards and addicts</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protracted, effective efforts were the subject of extensive, scholarly,
studious lectures at delivered at Yale in 1945, in which Bill Wilson himself
was a participant.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[27]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a disparate and thankfully-small crowd of writers and academics have opposed
the idea of recovery from and cure of alcoholism and addiction in the
faith-centered arena—whether that arena rests on:</span></div>
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talking about both Jesus Christ and the Bible, and about the cure and
overcoming of booze, in the same breath; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could possibly have or admit, or be in the same rooms with Christians who
“were” sinners and yet continued in walking after the flesh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is no need here to name these disruptive people and viewpoints. You can find
them easily tooting their horns on the internet and in frequent articles. But
it’s beneficial to Christians, believers, and active AAs to recognize the red
flags of warning about the methods and verbiage of their messages of disruption
and unbelief in the power of God to heal. And their banners seem often to be
somehow sanctified by their claims as advocates or practitioners of: (1)
“liberal” Protestantism; (2) “Modernists;” (3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>a limited Roman Catholic distaste, even today, among several of those
who dodge the fire by calling themselves of the Catholic “tradition” and
therefore opposed to A First Century Christian Fellowship, of “Christians;” (4)
“defenders” against “heretical” or hell-bound AAs; or (5) just plain humanists,
agnostic, or atheists traveling on the broad highway while trying to reframe
recovery today as secular, “scientific,” and “spiritual, but not religious.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[28]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the early A.A. Christians—and those today who (in the words of Billy Sunday,
follow Paul’s promise in Romans 10:9-10, that those shall be saved confessing
with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in their heart that God
raised Jesus from the dead)—saw a different picture of First Century
Christianity at work in the century from 1850 to 1950. One example of what
these believers saw was that of the Rev. Joseph H. Odell, D.D., formerly pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church of Scranton, who reversed his position and
said this of Billy Sunday’s huge successes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the result of the “Billy” Sunday campaigns—anywhere and everywhere—drunkards
became sober, thieves became honest, multitudes of people engaged themselves in
the study of the Bible, thousands confessed their faith in Jesus Christ as the
Saviour of the world. . . .</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[29]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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compelling lectures about religious success in overcoming alcoholism were the
voices of Rev. Francis W. McPeek, pp. 277-85; Rev. Roland H. Bainton, pp.
287-98; Edward G. Baird, p. 219; Dwight Anderson, pp. 362-72; Rev. Francis W.
McPeek, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Role of Religious Bodies in
the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,”</i> pp. 404-14; Rev. Otis R.
Rice, “Pastoral Counseling of Inebriates,” pp. 437-69; W.W. [Bill Wilson], “The
Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous,” pp. 461-73. Thus Rev. McPeek stated in his
lecture on religious bodies:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This has been a brief and highly selective survey of a
century’s efforts among religious people to bring the healing power of God into
the lives of those who suffer from inebriety. Certain things may be held as
conclusive. Towering above them all is this indisputable fact: It is faith in
the living God which has accounted for more recoveries from the disease than
all other therapeutic agencies put together. . . . Highbrows and bums, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;">rich
men and poor, judges and carpenters, prisoners and clergymen</span></a>—they
have all . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Moorhouse and Ira Sankey conducted a week-long campaign in St. Johnsbury at the
end of October 1877,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[30]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
just before Dr. Bob was born on August 8, 1879. Many of the other well-known
evangelists were not only linked together in friendship, but also in a chain of
evangelism and revival involving the rescue missions, the Young Men’s Christian
Association, and other evangelists including Moody, Sankey, Clark, Williams,
Booth, Folger, Sunday, Willitts, Meyer, Drummond, and others..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roger
Bruns pointed out in his book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Preacher:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From the earliest days of American Protestantism,
revivalists held fast to the belief that the universe was neatly divided
between God and Satan, the elect and the damned, the pure and the despoiled.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From Jonathan Edwards to Charles Finney to Lyman Beecher to
Dwight Moody, Bible-clutching evangelists preached the complete authority of
the Scriptures, the necessity of personal conversion, and a life free of vice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Personal and evangelical Protestantism taught a close
relationship between men and women and their God, challenging the sinner to
renounce the ways of the devil and to repent. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Personal salvation and moral responsibility—these were the
demands on the faithful.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[31]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elmer
Towns and Douglas Porter wrote in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ten
Greatest Revivals Ever:</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Layman’s Prayer revival which began in 1857 deeply
influenced America. . . . Across the ocean, the 1859 awakening in Britain
raised a host of evangelists, missionaries, and social reformers. . . . </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Existing mission, Bible, Sunday school, and tract societies
in both Britain and America flourished, with new workers revived or converted
during the awakening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New societies were formed to promote home missions,
establishing Sunday schools and churches throughout both nations. The YMCA, the
Salvation Army, the China Inland Mission, the Christian Brethren, and the
Christian and Missionary Alliance were just a few of the many ministries and
denominations born early in this awakening.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[32]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Professor William James, the philosopher, contended that
there was “scientific value to the stories of Christian conversions; that these
properly belonged among the data of religion, to be weighed by the man of
science<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.”</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[33]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Valued and needing to be weighed,
said Professor William James. This while a few recovery revisionists jest about
the “cure” of alcoholism, faith-centered treatment, and the role of God, His
Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in recovery. And those few today might do well
to take note of the respect shown of Professor James of Harvard long before
there was an A.A. and well after the many Christian organizations and
evangelists had helped thousands and thousands of drunks recover. Even today, a
few history buffs appear to laugh away the moribund significance of what they
derisively call those “golden days,” (as they like to characterize them) , and
then simply shove all the forgoing records aside as the investigative efforts
of amateurs, hobbyists, naive zealots bent on “Christianizing” an A.A. that is
hardly headed toward Christian dogma, creeds, or rituals today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
there is the dramatic account of the Healing Movement:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[A. J.] Gordon began including
healing in his ministry after he observed an opium addict delivered and a
missionary’s cancerous jaw healed instantaneously through the prayers of
concerned believers during Dwight L. Moody’s revival meetings in Boston in 1877.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These meetings revitalized the life
of Clarendon Church, which Gordon pastored, and brought reformed drunkards and
all kinds of commoners into the ranks of this affluent church.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[34]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once again, a few secularly-oriented writers today fail to
mention or evaluate the recovery efforts and successes of specific people and
entities such as Jerry McAuley, the Water Street Mission, S. H. Hadley, Calvary
Mission in New York (operated by Rev. Sam Shoemaker’s Calvary Church), and
testimonies by healers such as A. J. Gordon, Ethel Willitts, and James Moore
Hickson—who gained wide notice for healing drunkards, just as did organizations
like the Salvation Army and the Young Men’s Christian Association. These are
discussed at some length in our title, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr.
Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[35]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></i>;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>by the Yale Summer School of Alcohol
Studies; and by the noted religious scholar and writer Dr. Howard Clinebell.
See also the many footnotes of the Guidebook that accompanies these videos in
the “Bill W., Dr. Bob, and the Cure of Alcoholism: The Rest of the Story” class
by Dick B. and Ken B.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the numbers of such evangelists are many, the following deserve special
attention with reference to the First Century Christian origins of the
Christian Recovery Movement and the influence on A.A.’s founders:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we are documenting in our videos, some of the evangelists mentioned above
actually held campaigns in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where Dr. Bob was born and
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event caught the attention of pastors, churches, denominations, organizations,
newspapers, and writers. The transformation of communities—particularly St.
Johnsbury—involved the conversion of one-third of the population, the erection
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accounts are so lengthy and numerous that we leave the important description of
them to the pages of Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr.
Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Good Book as a
Youngster in Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref45" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn45;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[45]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Jerry McAuley founded the first rescue mission in the United States in 1872.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref46" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn46;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[46]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> He was known in his days as the “Apostle to the Outcast.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref47" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn47;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[47]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rescue mission was originally known as “Helping Hand for Men,” and later became
known as known as “The (Old McAuley) Water Street Mission.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref48" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn48;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[48]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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great Bible teacher, Dr. Arthur T. Pierson once said: “If you would like to
feel as if you were reading a new chapter of the Acts of the Apostles it would
be well for you to visit the old Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref49" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn49;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[49]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Jerry carried on his work for ten years at Number 316 Water
Street. He finally concluded that this was a worked-out mine, and located a mission
at No. 104 West Thirty-Second Street known as the Cremorne Mission. Jerry
secured the lease and started the Cremorne Mission at that spot on January 8,
1882.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref50" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn50;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[50]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his successor superintendent at the mission, Samuel Hopkins Hadley (also known as
“S. H. Hadley”)—focused (in colloquial language) on “soup, soap, and
salvation.” J. Wilbur Chapman, Hadley’s biographer, wrote: “If you will
multiply many times this story of the genuine conversion of a poor lost man,
you will have the life story of S.H. Hadley, the man who during his Christian
life possibly led more drunkards to Christ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>than any other man of his generation,” p. 24. Chapman said of S.H. Hadley’s
brother Colonel H.H. Hadley that the Colonel “has the distinction of having
founded more rescue missions than any other man in the world,” p. 43. Chapman
concluded the S.H. Hadley biography by saying: “In the years of service in
Water Street not less than seventy-five thousand persons have announced their
intentions to live better lives. Not all of these have stood firm in the new
faith, of course, but it is safe to say that the percentage has been as large
as, if not larger than, would be the case following an ordinary revival.,”
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close ties of S. H. Hadley to the Evangelists F. B. Meyer and Dwight Moody; the
ties of one of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his sailor drunks to the
founding of six Christian Endeavor groups, and Hadley’s favorite as 1
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the time of the “great compromise” in A.A. just before its Big Book was
published in April 1939, Bill W.’s use of unmodified word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God</i> in the original draft of Steps Two, Three, and Eleven was
changed. The unappointed “committee of four” (i.e., Bill W., Bill’s business
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phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>”
following the originally-unmodified word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God</i>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref51" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn51;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[51]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill
W. said the compromise was to open a “broad highway” and was “the great
contribution” of the atheists and agnostics. But Bill also said that his “committee
of four” compromisers had declined to include what A.A. had learned from the
churches and the missions.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref52" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn52;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[52]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the following quote is from the
S. H. Hadley biography, on page 172-73. It provides, a good idea of what
Bill—himself a mission convert--learned at the very Calvary Mission which was
actually an outgrowth of New York’s famous Water Street Mission, founded in the
last century by Jerry McAuley. First, however, note that A.A. author and
historian Mel B. wrote the following about the relationship of the McAuley
mission work and Sam Shoemaker’s Calvary Mission. Mel stated:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">McAuley was succeeded at the Water Street Mission by S. H.
Hadley. His example of recovery from alcoholism was cited in William James’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Varieties of Religious Experience</i> (a
seminal book that profoundly influenced Bill Wilson).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hadley’s son Harry, who also had a religious conversion
experience, was seeking an opportunity to start a rescue mission when he met
Sam Shoemaker. The result of their collaboration was Calvary Mission, which
helped thousands of men, including Ebby Thacher.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref53" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn53;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[53]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here are the Hadley biography
remarks about S. H Hadley, his mission, and the Calvary Mission approach and
activities that Bill was talking about:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The secret of Mr. Hadley’s wonderful success . . . can be
summed up in the fact that his religion was not a creed, not a catechism, not a
summary of Christian doctrines, not an observance of church duties, but a firm
realization of Christ as a person, with whom he had conscious communion, and
from he had received blessings as clearly as from the hand of a friend. Yet
there was not the slightest tinge of fanaticism in his religious life . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But instead of being elated by his success, of affected by
popularity he attained, he became increasingly humble, and his utter dependence
upon God was daily more manifest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And this spirit he sought with all earnestness to impress
upon the Mission converts. Their help, their only help, he insisted, was God.
Anything else would fail them. They must pray. They must read their Bibles.
They must maintain constant communion with Jesus. They must be deeply
religious. They must rest with absolute faith on the promises of God. If they
trusted in God, their old appetites, lusts, desires, temptations, no matter how
powerful in the old life, would no longer have dominion over them. [These
biblical ideas can be found used almost verbatim in A.A. literature by Bill W.,
Dr. Bob, and Bill D.]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this way he [Hadley] made religion a real thing. He had
no place for theories in his Mission. God, heaven, hell, sin, Christ,
salvation, the power of prayer, the indwelling of the Holy spirit, grace for
even the most abandoned and degraded, were tremendous verities with him, and he
made them the essentials of his ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">S.
H. Hadley’s son, H</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">enry
Harrison Hadley II (also known as “Harry Hadley”)--named after S. H. Hadley’s
brother, Colonel Henry Harrison Hadley--collaborated with Rev. Sam Shoemaker in
opening the Calvary Mission on 23rd Street in Manhattan in 1926 and became its
first superintendent. That whole Hadley—Mission—Calvary Mission—Wilson link is
covered extensively in Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Conversion of Bill W., </i>80-107. You can learn the facts from the lips and
writings of Sam Shoemaker, L. Parks Shipley, Sr., Mrs. Samuel Shoemaker,
Shoemaker’s assistant ministers John Potter Cuyler and W. Irving Harris,
Calvary Mission brother Billy Duval, Mel B., William James, Bill Wilson, Lois
Wilson, Bill Pittman, and Fitz M.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Taylor (“Tex”) Francisco—who took over
as superintendent of Calvary Mission in 1933—was the superintendent of the
Calvary Mission when Bill W.’s “sponsor,” Ebby Thacher, made his personal
surrender—accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior—there November 1, 1934.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref54" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn54;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[54]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tex was still the superintendent when
Bill W. accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior there about December 7,
1934, just before Bill entered Towns Hospital for his fourth and final visit on
December 11, 1934.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref55" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn55;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[55]</span></span></sup></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Records
in such descriptive books as J. Wilbur Chapman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">S.H. Hadley of Water Street</i>, tell of the tens of thousands of
down-and-outers that went through Water Street Mission and were helped, if not
healed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Records
of Calvary Mission, where both Ebby Thacher and Bill Wilson accepted Christ,
also report on the thousands helped in that endeavor at Calvary Mission which
was owned by Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker’s Calvary Episcopal Church in New York.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref56" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn56;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[56]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc317412381"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">The Salvation Army</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“General”
William Booth founded an organization in July 1865 in England— an early name
for which was “The Christian Mission”—that became known as “The Salvation Army”
in 1878. Booth sent an official group to the United States in 1880 to pioneer
work for the organization.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref57" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn57;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[57]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Salvation Army’s work with drunkards, derelicts, and criminals in the slums
became popularized in Harold Begbie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice-Born
Men</i>—a book owned, circulated, and widely-read by Oxford Group people and by
the Akron AAs.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref58" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn58;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[58]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
effectiveness and techniques of the Salvation Army are well discussed by Dr.
Howard Clinebell of the Claremont School of Theology.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref59" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn59;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[59]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Also in one of the lectures given at the Yale Alcohol
Studies in 1945—an event in which Bill Wilson was one of the participating
lecturers.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref60" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn60;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[60]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark founded this society at the Williston Congregational Church
in Portland, Maine, on February 2, 1881. During its National Convention convened
July 9 and 10, 1885, at Ocean Park, Maine, the society was incorporated under
the laws of Maine as “the United Society of Christian Endeavor.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref62" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn62;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[62]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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that convention, Mr. Van Patten of Burlington, Vermont, was chosen President. This
Christian society, aimed at young people in the church, spread throughout the
world and reached a peak membership of around 4.5 million members. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Christian Endeavor Society started in North Congregational Church, St.
Johnsbury, in 1887 (when Dr. Bob was about eight years old), and Dr. Bob said
he was actively involved in it “from childhood through high school.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref63" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn63;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[63]</span></span></sup></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Endeavor’s ideas and regimen produced a thoroughly observed, reported,
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Christian Endeavor program closely paralleled the original Akron A.A. program
founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob in 1935.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref71" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn71;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[71]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc317412383"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“A First Century Christian Fellowship” (also
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us also look at “A First Century Christian Fellowship” and aspects of its
influence on early A.A. Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, a Lutheran minister, and a
couple of associates founded the organization in the autumn of 1922.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref72" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn72;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[72]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In September 1928, the press in South Africa affixed the
label “the Oxford Group” to a group of Oxford University students involved with
“A First Century Christian Fellowship” who were traveling by train in South
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the Oxford Group’s earliest days, Group leader Sherwood Sunderland Day wrote a
little pamphlet succinctly summarizing the principles of the Oxford Group.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref73" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn73;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[73]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Day wrote at the beginning of his pamphlet that the
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that impacted on A.A., and the specific language used in hundreds of Oxford
Group writings [some 500 that Dick B. acquired, studied, and reported], each
rested on the Oxford Group biblical principles that Bill W. later incorporated
into the Big Book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Group writer—many of whose books were read by early AAs—quoted the Bible in
support of those 28 principles that later impacted on Bill’s language and
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was Bill Wilson himself who said: “I am always glad to say privately that some
of the Oxford Group presentation and emphasis upon the Christian message saved
my life.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref75" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn75;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[75]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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W.’s wife, Lois, was even clearer on what the Oxford Group and its First
Century Christianity had done for A.A. and for her Bill. Lois wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alcoholics Anonymous (yet to be formed at that time) owes a
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companionship of his alcoholic friends, the spiritual inspiration of the Oxford
Group and the satisfaction of being useful to those he worked with.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref77" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn77;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[77]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Oxford Group precepts [as Lois
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absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love,
moral standards by which every thought and action should be tested.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref78" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn78;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[78]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God, through the Oxford Group, had accomplished in a
twinkling what I had failed to do in seventeen years.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftnref79" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn79;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[79]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> T. D. Seymour Bassett, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gods of the Hills: Piety and Society in
Nineteenth Century Vermont </i>(Montpelier, VT: Vermont Historical Society.
Inc., 2000)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Edward Taylor Fairbanks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Town of St. Johnsbury, Vt: A Review of
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years to the Anniversary Pageant, 1912</i> (General
Books, ISBN 9780217374903); John M. Comstock, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Congregational Churches of Vermont and Their Ministry 176 2-1942
Historical and Statistical </i>(St. Johnsbury, VT: The Cowles Press, 1942).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dr. Bob’s mother supported these
financially.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Young Men’s Christian
Association was vibrant at the time of Dr. Bob’s youth (1879-1898),
particularly in St. Johnsbury with its donated Y.M.C.A. building near Dr. Bob’s
boyhood home, the local General Secretary who appeared on the scene, the reading
room, the lectures and activities North Congregational Church and St. Johnsbury
Academy which Bob attended, Bible studies, and religious meetings such as the “Great
Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury. Dr. Bob’s father, Judge Walter P. Smith,
was President of the St. Johnsbury YMCA from 1895 until at least 1897 while his
son Bob was attending St. Johnsbury Academy down the street (1894-1898). See
Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,
61, 90, 114-19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and Sankey, and the texts of Moody’s sermons, filled St. Johnsbury’s local
newspaper, the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, for a number of years just before Dr.
Bob was born. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ken B. reviewed all of the available
issues of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>
newspaper on microfilm from about 1869 until at least August 1875 during the
second research trip Dick B. and Ken B. made to St. Johnsbury in June 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> On September 12, 1875, Colonel
Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury assisted Moody with an afternoon service in
Northfield, Massachusetts. See “The Revivalists at Northfield, Mass,.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>, Springfield, Mass.,
Sept. 12; Published September 13, 1875 : </span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9406E3DC1F39EF34BC4B52DFBF66838E669FDE"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9406E3DC1F39EF34BC4B52DFBF66838E669FDE</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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young English evangelist, assisted by Ira D. Sankey, held meetings in St.
Johnsbury during the last week in October 1877. See John MacPherson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henry Moorhouse, the English Evangelist</i>
(London: Morgan and Scott, 1881), 80.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Franklin Fairbanks also joined with other state religious leaders, including
Baptist Jacob J. Estey of Brattleboro and Methodist Samuel Huntington of
Burlington, in signing “an appeal to support Moody’s evangelistic campaign” in
Burlington, Vermont, during most of October 1877. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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morning, October 6, 1877. See T. D. Seymour Bassett, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Gods of the Hills: Piety and Society in Nineteenth-Century Vermont</i>
(Montpelier, VT: Vermont Historical Society, 2000), 193-95. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Moody and Sankey campaign in Vermont
concluded Thursday evening, November 1, 1877. See “Revivals in New-England,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>, dated Nov. 2, and
published November 3, 1877. </span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E0D8103FE63BBC4B53DFB767838C669FDE"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E0D8103FE63BBC4B53DFB767838C669FDE</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
; accessed 2/17/12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dr. Bob was active in Christian
Endeavor as a youth through his family’s church, North Congregational Church,
St. Johnsbury. See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,
4<sup>th</sup> ed. (New York City, NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services,
Inc., 2001), 172. See also: Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Good
Book as a Youngster in Vermont</i> (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications,
Inc., 2008), 143-87. Furthermore, these videos have shown and will show how
many of the persons, leaders, and evangelists of those days were not only
friends and colleagues, but also much involved in the same organizations and
groups that were impacting on Vermont and A.A.’s co-founders in their Christian
upbringing and later as adults. These people were Dwight L. Moody, Ira Sankey,
F. B. Meyer, Amos Wells, Billy Sunday, Francis Clark, Colonel Franklin
Fairbanks, Robert E. Speer, S. H. Hadley, J. Wilbur Chapman, A. J. Gordon, and
General William Booth. Their paths crossed many times in Congregationalism, the
Young Men’s Christian Association, Christian Endeavor, revivals, temperance
meetings, the work of rescue missions, and even The Great Awakening of 1875 in
St. Johnsbury.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[10]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> John M. Comstock, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Congregational Churches of Vermont and
Their Ministry, 1762-1942. Historical and Statistical. </i>(St. Johnsbury, VT:
The Cowles Press, Inc., 1942), 9: “The rapid settlement of Vermont did not
begin until the close of the French and Indian War. . . . Settlers now came in
rapidly from the longer settled parts of New England. These were nearly all of
Puritan stock, and so naturally Congregationalists. The first of the new
settlements was at Bennington, and there the first church of our order and the
first Protestant church in the state was organized in 1762, the next year after
the beginning of the town.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[11]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Conversion of Bill W.; </i>and Dick B.
and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bill W. and Dr. Bob: The
Green Mountain Men of Vermont.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Castle in the Pasture: Portrait of Burr and Burton Academy </i>(Manchester,
VT: Burr and Burton Academy, 2005), the text and research were by the Academy
archivist Frederica Templeton). The early portion of this book names the many
Congregationalists who were leaders and founders—The Reverend William Jackson,
pastor of the Congregational Church in Dorset. The Reverend Lyman Coleman was
the first principal when the seminary opened during a wave of religious
revivalism. Both graduates of Yale College and Yale Divinity School, Reverend
James Anderson (pastor of the First Congregational Church in Manchester Village
for 29 years) was a founding trustee and Secretary until 1878; Reverend Dr.
Joseph Dresser Wickham was principal of Burr Seminary until 1862 and nearly
thirty years a president of its Board of Trustees. Dr. Wickham was succeeded as
president of the Board of Trustees by Reverend Parsons Pratt, long-time pastor
of the Dorset Congregational Church. School Rules and Regulations required:
Prompt attendance at Daily Prayers, Church and Bible Service on the Sabbath. In
the early years, students and faculty marked the end of the school year with
Anniversary Exercises at the Congregational Church and an address by a visiting
clergyman, pages 1 to 50.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This information was conveyed to
us in interviews and reviews of records with archivist Frederica Templeton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[15]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See also Robert J. Wilson and
Ann Lewis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The First Congregational
Church Manchester, Vermont, 1784-1984<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>(Manchester,
VT: Bicentennial Steering Committee of the First Congregational Church of
Manchester, Vermont, 1984)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>153-54.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “The story of our founding” at
The Y/YMCA Web site: </span><a href="http://www.ymca.net/history/founding.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://www.ymca.net/history/founding.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
; accessed 2/15/12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[18]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Edward T. Fairbanks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Town of St. Johnsbury, Vt: A Review of
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years to the Anniversary Pageant 1912</i> (St.
Johnsbury, Vt.: The Cowles Press, 1914), 316-17.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B., and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr.
Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>67-68, 97, 119, 125-28, 171, 247-62.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “The Great Awakening” in St.
Johnsbury, Vermont, began on February 6, 1875, just a few months before Dwight
L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey arrived back in America on August 14, 1875,
following their two-year tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Dr. Bob was
born on August 8, 1879, and graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1898. He
then left Vermont to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Bill
W. was born on November 26, 1895. Bill turned his back on God during his senior
year at Burr and Burton Academy after the young woman he was in love with,
Bertha Bamford, died on November 18, 1912. The many evangelists who conferred
widely reported healings, particularly of alcoholics and addicts were: (1)
Dwight L. Moody, A. J. Gordon, F. B. Meyer, Billy Sunday, Chapman, Allen
Folger, James Moore Hickson, Just as Dr. Silkworth had told Bill Wilson that
the “Great Physician” could cure him, many of these same evangelists used that
expression to refer to Jesus said that the Great Physician could cure the
believer (Willitts,, 66, 104, 151, 209-10,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>215; Hickson, 70; Meyer,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The
Secret of Guidance, </i>91. See Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Conversion of Bill W. </i>62-66.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(Boston: James H. Earle & Company, 1905), p. 198- 99 “this young man. . .
in despairing tone, said, ‘Did you know that I was a drunkard and only
twenty-two years of age? . . . . I have been engaged in selling drugs. . . .
Silently asking God’s guidance I said, If you must go to these places you can
take Christ with you to the worst place on earth, only trust entirely in him. .
. . The last service he was there again, and when the invitation was given he
was at once on his feet and said to me, ‘Mr. Folger, I am trying to live a
Christian life. . . Later he came over apparently rejoicing in the Lord, and I
heard of him afterwards as doing well.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[22]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Billy Sunday: William T. Ellis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy Sunday, </i>31-32, 39, 66, 94; Rachel
M. Phillips, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy Sunday </i>(Ohio;
Barbour Books, 2001), 115-16, 148,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[23]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “A. J. Gordon and Dwight L.
Moody; Boston 1877.” And then there is the dramatic account of the Healing
Movement: [A. J.] Gordon began including healing in his ministry after he
observed an opium addict delivered and a missionary’s cancerous jaw healed
instantaneously through the prayers of concerned believers during Dwight L.
Moody’s revival meetings in Boston in 1877. These meetings revitalized the life
of Clarendon Church, which Gordon pastored, and brought reformed drunkards and
all kinds of commoners into the ranks of this affluent church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Richard M. Riss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Survey of 20th-Century Revival Movements in North America</i>
(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988), 22. For further understanding of Gordon’s
role, see A. J. Gordon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ministry of
Healing: Miracles of Cure in All Ages</i> (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1881);
and Scott M. Gibson, A. J. Gordon: American Premillennialist (Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 2001).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[24]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> James Moore Hickson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heal The Sick </i>(London: Methuen &
Co., Ltd., 1925) –a book that was owned and circulated among early AAs by Dr.
Bob; pp. 39-40, 82-83, 88, 118-19, 172, 240-41, 265.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[25]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Ethel R. Willitts, Evangelist, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Healing in Jesus Name </i>(Crawfordsville,
IN: Ethel R. Willitts, 1931),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>122, 156,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[26]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Bob Holman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">F.B. Meyer: “If I Had a Hundred Lives, they should be at Christ’s
disposal.” </i>(Great Britain: Christian Focus Limited, 2007), p. 2, “F. B.
Meyer was one of the great influences of the evangelical world in the latter 19<sup>th</sup>
and early 20<sup>th</sup> century. He helped launch the then-unknown D. L.
Moody for his first evangelistic mission in the UK, was himself a famous
Holiness preacher on both sides of the Atlantic. He was one of the outstanding
Bible teachers of his day;” p. 29:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In
Meyer’s church, Moody and Sankey began their triumphant British tour;” p. 31:
There was a lifelong friendship between Meyer and Moody; p. “Meyer soon
perceived that for ex-prisoners, alcoholics and delinquents, conversion was
necessary but not always sufficient. Often they also needed jobs and
accommodation;” p. 67: Meyer knew George Williams, a trustee at Meyer’s church,
a leading evangelical, and played a large part in the founding of Young Men’s
Christian Association—bringing drunken youths off the streets into Bible study
at Williams’s home; pp. 93, 146, 156, 181: As with Moody, and Billy Sunday,
Christian Endeavor, the YMCA, and support for missions played a large role in
their outreach work. In his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Secret of Guidance </i>(Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2010); p. 155: Meyer’s
influence on Dr. Frank Buchman as to guidance and “quiet time,” was both
recognized and substantial. P. 70: Also see Meyer’s intense interest in General
Booth’s Salvation Army Book and the work it describes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[27]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcohol, Science and Society: Twenty-nine Lectures with Discussions as
given at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies </i>(New Haven:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol,
1945). Lecture 1, page 12, states this: “Practically everybody who talks about
the rehabilitation of the alcoholic mentions the role of religion. The Rev.
McPeek will give you a historical sketch of the role of religion in the
treatment of inebriety.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[28]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See Richard L. Gorusch,
“Assessing Spiritual Variables in Alcoholics Anonymous Research,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Research on Alcoholics </i>(New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1993): “alcoholics’ concept of God
differs so<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>widely from Christian culture
that they are supposed to have been a part of Christianity that stresses
forgiveness and love, not judgment and vengeance. . . Alcoholics have a non-Christian
view of God.” pp. 310-11. See also Martin and Deidre Bobgan, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12 Steps to Destruction</i> (Santa Barbara,
CA: East Gate Publishers, 1991): p. 104. “Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is
absent from Wilson’s spiritual experience. There is no mention of Jesus Christ
providing the only way of salvation. . . . Nor is there any mention of Jesus
Christ being Lord of his [Bill W.’s] life.” See<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>also <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Collected Ernie Kurtz</i>
(Wheeling, WV: The Bishop of Books, 1999), pp. 17: “The same mail brings me
pages from a Californian who, immersed in the study of books read by Dr. Bob
Smith and other Oxford Group members, demonstrates (again to his satisfaction
more than to mine), that every idea in Alcoholics Anonymous derives directly
from the King James Version of the Bible;” p. 29: “: . . . in the A.A. modality
of storytelling, one is “saved,” but not completely. Salvation—sobriety—remains
operative only so long as one makes it available to others by telling the story
of one’s own;” Compare Linda A. Mercadante, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Victims
& Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery </i>(Louisville, KY:
Westminster John Knox<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Press, 1996), p.
180: “Grace is not primarily the energy to improve behavior. It is not
primarily an infusion of willpower, or a control battle that God wins. Nevertheless
it “works” to turn a person away from destructive behaviors we label addiction.
. . . In other words, grace is the heart of God, welcoming u back home;” see
William James, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Varieties of Religious
Experience </i>(Vintage Books/The Library of America, 1990),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The only statistics I know of, on the
subject of duration of conversions, are those collected for Professor Starbuck
by Miss Johnston. They embrace only a hundred persons, evangelical
church-members, more than half being Methodists;” In Elwood Worcester, Samuel McComb,
Isador H. Coriat, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Religion and Medicine:
The Moral Control of Mental Disorders </i>(NY: Moffat, Yard & Company,
1908), see p. 190-91: “We often hear men say, ‘Faith belongs to religion;
knowledge is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the mark of science; the
weakness of religion is its uncertainty; the strength of science is its firm
standing on the bed-rock of observation and experiment.’ Yet as Professor Royce
has abundantly shown, the whole structure of science rests upon a body of great
faiths, or beliefs, which must be trusted but cannot be proved. . . . It is no
reproach to religion to say that it is based on faith, for if this is a
weakness, it is one it shares with science. But not with science only. Our
ordinary life is grounded in faith. . . . When he is overtaken with some
sickness, he speedily forgets his rationalism, calls in the doctor and swallows
his medicine in faith. . . .”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[29]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> William T. Ellis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message</i>
(Chicago, Moody Press, 1959), 94.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[30]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See John MacPherson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henry Moorhouse, the English Evangelist</i>
(London: Morgan and Scott, 1881), 80. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>. Published: November 3, 1877.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[31]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Roger A. Bruns, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-time American
Evangelism</i> (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 134-35.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[32]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Elmer Towns and Douglas Porter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ten Greatest Revivals Ever: From
Pentecost to the Present </i>(Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2000), 136.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[33]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> William T. Ellis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message </i>(Chicago:
Moody Press, 1959), 136.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[34]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Richard M. Riss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Survey of 20<sup>th</sup>-Century Revival
Movements in North America</i> (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988), 22. For
further understanding of Gordon’s role, see A. J. Gordon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ministry of Healing: Miracles of Cure in All Ages</i> (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1881); and Scott M. Gibson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A. J. Gordon: American Premillennialist (</i>Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 2001).<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[35]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His
Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont </i>(Kihei, HI:
Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Pentecost to the Present </i>(Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2000):
Finney was converted in 1821 (p. 100). In what became known as “The General
Awakening” period ending in 1830, Finney had taken his ministry to New York
where some 100,000 people were converted (p. 104). Finney had previously
conducted his early meetings throughout rural New England (p. 98). He was known
as the “Father of Modern Revivalism,” became known as the originator of the
altar call and the “anxious seat” for those expected to come to Jesus Christ
(p. 102). Kenneth O. Brown, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy Ground:
The Camp Meeting Family </i>Tree (Hazleton, PA: Holiness Archives, 1997):
Finney used a huge tent in Oberlin, Ohio in 1835. And he, along with Dwight
Moody, Billy Sunday, Oral Roberts, and Billy Graham became famed for what was
called “Tabernacle revivalism” (pp. 64-65). Roger A. Bruns, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy Sunday and Big Time American
Evangelism</i> (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001): His
most famous sermon was “Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts” (p. 67). He
often pointed out sinners in the audience, challenging them personally to
forsake their evil ways and to follow Christ (p. 68). He had a vision of a
mighty force of reformed Christians purifying the nation of sin and sordidness;
and he took the revivalist impulse and mass conversion efforts from rural
settings into the cities (p. 69). Many read his handbook on revivalism (p. 70).
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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famous English evangelist, F. B. Meyer. That is probably one of the reasons
that he touched so many of the lives that impacted on early A.A through
evangelists and revivals. Bob Holman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">F.B.
Meyer: “If I Had a Hundred Lives” </i>(Great Britain: Christian Focus
Publications, Ltd., 2007): He was one of the great influences in the
evangelical world in the latter 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century. He
helped launch the then unknown Dwight L. Moody for his first evangelistic
mission in the UK, was himself a famous Holiness preacher on both sides of the
Atlantic, played a role in the Welsh revival of 1904, and was an outstanding
Bible teacher of his day (p. 2). He believed the Bible as God’s revelation;
that conversion depended upon belief in heart and mind; that mankind was justly
condemned for sin but God’s infinite love resulted in Jesus coming to earth and
that his death is accepted by Infinite justice as the basis for reconciliation
between man and God (p. 21). At the invitation of Dwight Moody, he went to the
U.S. to speak at the well-established Northfield Conference (p. 65). He was
asked to head Christ Church, and negotiated for the post with George Williams,
a trustee at Christ Church who had played a large part in the founding of the
Young Men’s Christian Association (p. 67). He believed the Sunday diet was not
sufficient for Christian growth; and he introduced the Monday prayer meeting,
held a service and sermon at noon on Thursdays, and conducted a Bible reading
on Friday evening. And he launched a Young Men’s Christian Association program
(pp. 76-77). He also took a close interest in the Young People’s Society of
Christian Endeavor and eventually became president of the Central South London
Christian Endeavor Union (p. 93). His evangelism resulted in many conversions
(p. 98). He spent a great deal of time serving others. On Saturday afternoons,
he would talk to and spend time with young men at the YMCA in central
London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 7 p.m., he would conduct the
worker’s prayer meeting. On Sundays he would usually preach at three services,
and also participate in one or more of the meetings for children and young
people (p. 104). He traveled to the United States at least 20 times; and in
1898 he went to Washington, D.C., opened the Senate with prayer, and had a talk
with President McKinley (p. 125). He also became President of the World’s
Sunday School Association (p. 126). He had much to do with the early life of
Oxford Group founder Frank Buchman. Buchman went to Britain the seek Meyer. In
1912, Meyer came to the Penn State College campus and told Buchman to listen
more to God than the phones and to work personally rather than organizing large
meetings. Buchman was much influenced by Meyer’s books, especially his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Secret of Guidance </i>(p.155). F. B. Meyer
was president of the National Union of Christian Endeavor and the National Sunday
School Association (p. 181). He met Moody’s partner, Ira Sankey, and it was
Moody who taught Meyer how to win people to Christ (p. 30). Meyer reckoned that
in nine cases out of ten, drink had contributed to the crimes which landed men
in prison (p. 38). He worked with homeless boys and youngsters who had been in
prison (p. 43). Meyer told a group of young men: “A man must not only believe
in Christ for final salvation, but must trust him for victory over every sin,
and for deliverance from every care” (p. 47). Meyer also spoke at a large
meeting along with General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (p.
195).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[38]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Towns and Porter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ten Greatest Revivals Ever</i>: In 1859,
Dwight L. Moody was elected president of the Illinois Sunday School Association.
He established a prayer meeting, called the “Illinois Band,” which included
such prominent Americans as H. J. Heinz and John Wannamaker—their goal being to
bring Christ to the world (p. 119). Moody became an evangelist, went to
England, returned to America preaching to huge crowds, but was cut down by the
Chicago fire and many deaths that accompanied it. Moody began making
invitations for conversion which he called “Instantaneous Conversion,”
explaining how people could be saved immediately by accepting Christ” (p.131).
Moody was a leader of the Young Men’s Christian Association, the American
Sunday School movement, and also was editor of Christian Endeavor’s pamphlet, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Golden Rule.</i> He brought to America
such famous evangelists as F. B. Meyer and Henry Drummond, and was a friend of
evangelist Allen Folger. Moody’s ideas were very much appropriated by Oxford
Group founder Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman and found their way into early A.A.
thinking. See J. Wilbur Chapman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life
and Work of Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)</i>, http//www.bible
believers.com/moody/index.html. See also: Riss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Survey, </i>14-29; Towns and Porter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ten Greatest Revivals, </i>119, 130-38; and Mark O. Guldseth, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Streams</i> (Fritz Creek, AK: Fritz Creek
Studios, 1982).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn39" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn39;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[39]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As to Sankey, see: (1) J. Wilbur
Chapman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life and Work of Dwight L.
Moody</i> (Boston, MA: Geo. M. Smith, 1900); and (2) Edgar J. Goodspeed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wonderful Career of Moody and Sankey in
Great Britain and America</i> (NY: Henry B. Goodspeed & Co., 1876). See
also Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dick B.
Christian Recovery Guide, </i>3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research
Publications, Inc., 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn40" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn40;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[40]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As to Henry Drummond, see George
Smith, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life of Henry Drummond</i>
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899); and James Young Simpson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henry Drummond </i>(Edinburgh: Oliphant,
Anderson & Ferrier, 1901). Dr. Bob owned, read, studied, and circulated
among AAs a large number of Drummond’s books. Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob and His Library, </i>3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise
Research Publications, Inc. 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn41" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn41;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[41]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> John MacPherson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henry Moorhouse, the English Evangelist</i>
(London: Morgan and Scott, n.d.). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn42" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn42;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[42]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As to K. A. Burnell and H. M.
Moore, see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Record of Christian Work, </i>Vol.
18, April 1899, No. 4, 170-71. As to Burnell, Moody, and Sankey, see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Advance, </i>September 21, 1905, 318-19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn43" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn43;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[43]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Allen Folger, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-five Years as an Evangelist </i>(Springfield,
MO J. H. Earle & Company, 1915). Folger was deeply involved with the Young
Men’s Christian Association evangelism with more than 700 meetings in New
England. He was involved with the Young Men’s Christian Association there (pp.
153, 215); with Moody and Sankey (p. 70); with healings (pp. 186-87);with the
problems of addiction and drinking people (p. 318); with conversion and
salvation (pp. 322-31, 289); with Vermont (p. 245); with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>revivals (p. 144); and with hundreds of
meetings (p. 334).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn44" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn44;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[44]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Billy was a baseball star, who
was converted to God through Jesus Christ, was trained in the Young Men’s
Christian Association, preached, converted thousands, was involved in Christian
Endeavor, and was a champion of “personal work.” His definition of conversion
was a complete surrender to Jesus Christ. He said: The plan of salvation is
presented to you in two parts. Believe in your heart and confess with your
mouth [Romans 10:9].<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn45" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn45;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[45]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His
Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont </i>(Kihei, HI:
Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn46" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn46;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[46]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> D. Samuel Hopkins Hadley, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Down in Water Street: A Story of Sixteen
Years Life and Work in Water Street Mission, A Sequel to the Life of Jerry
McAuley </i>(NY: Fleming H. Revell, n.d.), 39.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn47" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn47;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[47]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> J. Wilbur Chapman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">S. H. Hadley of Water Street </i>(NY:
Fleming H. Revell Company, 1906), 17. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn48" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn48;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[48]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Jerry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McAuley: “Helping Hand for Men” (mission)
(renamed) “McAuley Water Street Mission”:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“The
New York City Rescue Mission was founded in 1872 by Jerry McAuley as the
Helping Hand for Men located at 316 Water Street near the foot of the Brooklyn
Bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry McAuley was a drunk and a
river thief who was sentenced to Sing Sing Prison for 15 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came to the Lord Jesus Christ in prison by
the reading of the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His life was
so changed, that he received a pardon from the Governor of New York and was
released after serving 7 years of his sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following his release from prison he met his wife, a former prostitute
who had come to know the Lord as Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were married and served the Lord together in ministering to the
homeless men of the city. Following the death of Jerry McAuley, the [Helping
Hand for Men] mission was renamed the McAuley Water Street Mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A water fountain dedicated to the memory of
Jerry McAuley was erected at Greeley Square in Manhattan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His life has had an impact that is still felt
today. The current mission [The New York City Rescue Mission], which is the
fifth mission since the original mission, is located at 90 Lafayette Street in
Manhattan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Village Lane Bible Chapel
has ministered at the mission on the first Monday of the month for over twenty
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following are several
pictures of the mission.” [Source: “New York City Rescue Mission”:
http://www.vlbc.org/nyc_rescue_mission.htm; accessed 2/9/2014]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Source:
“New York City Rescue Mission”: http://www.vlbc.org/nyc_rescue_mission.htm;
accessed 2/9/2014] <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn50" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn50;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[50]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Hadley, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Down in Water Street, </i>45.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>And
now as to Cremorne: “Two or three hundred well dressed men and women,
sympathizers and the regenerated, attended the anniversary meeting of Jerry
McAuley’s Cremorne Mission, yesterday afternoon. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, the Rev.
Drs. R. S. MacArthur and R. R. Booth, the Rev. Lindsay Parker, and Mrs. Maria
McAuley occupied the platform and made brief addresses. Gen. Fisk said that no
report could be made of the fruits of the mission work, but it was known in the
hearts of thousands of men and women who had been raised from the gutter to a
self-respecting life. The good work was being carried on by Sister Maria, Jerry
McAuley’s widow, whom nobody named without a blessing. Dr. MacArthur made a
feeling allusion to the memory of Jerry McAuley. He had even made better men of
the ministers, said Dr. Booth. Six or eight persons of both sexes, well clad
and well to do in appearance, testified to their reformation from sin and
drunkenness through appeals made in the mission hall. Mrs. Maria McAuley, known
to hundreds of regenerated outcasts as Sister Maria, said that she remembered
the time when she lived in a wretched room on Cherry-street without God or
hope; there was a bed of straw in one corner, and drink was her daily curse. As
tears fell down her cheeks she concluded, ‘God only knows how it hurts the
flesh to tell the story, but it’s my duty.’ . . .”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>[Source: “Cremorne Mission Work,” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>, January 4, 1886:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/h4ylg"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/h4ylg</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 2/9/2014 {109311820.pdf}]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“The
year was 1872; the month, October, and the couple, Jerry and Maria McAuley.
They named their mission house, at 316 Water Street, the Helping Hand for Men.
It is reputed the first such rescue mission in New York-- . . .<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Meanwhile,
McAuley also had moved uptown. In 1882, Jerry left Water Street (succeeded by
S. H. Hadley) to start the Cremorne Mission near Times Square. Who knows whether
his grandmother's pious prayers, that he had once derided, may have played
their part in the recesses of half- forgotten memory, readying him to receive
the message of "new life" carried to him "up the river" by
Orville "the Awful," a Sing Sing chapel message that helped turn his
young life around and led him to help turn around the lives of countless
others, first at the Water St. Mission and later at the Cremorne Mission. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Maria
succeeded him at the Times Square area mission after he died Sept. 18, 1884.
Newspapers of the era reported that Rev. Thomas DeWitt Talmage's reconstructed
Brooklyn Tabernacle (aka Central Presbyterian Church) was so packed with people
attending McAuley's funeral that the crowd overflowed onto the sidewalk --
quite a turnout considering that the 5,000-seat Gothic style facility was
regarded as one of the largest Protestant churches, if not the largest, in the
country at the time.”[Source: “Tombs & Sing Sing Ex-Inmate Became Rescue
Mission Pioneer”: </span><a href="http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/mcauley/mcauley.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/mcauley/mcauley.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 2/9/2014]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn52" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn52;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[52]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 17, 162-64, 166-67.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn53" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn53;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[53]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Mel B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ebby, </i>p. 65. Also, Mel B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
Wine: The Spiritual Roots of the Twelve Step Miracle</i> (Center City, MN:
Hazelden, 1991), 52-53.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn54" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn54;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[54]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Mel B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.</i> (Center City, Minn.: Hazelden,
1998), 65<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn55" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn55;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[55]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, </i>3<sup>rd</sup>
ed., 8-11. See also: Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Conversion of Bill W.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn56" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn56;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[56]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.’s
Spiritual Roots and Successes, </i>423; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>157-58.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn57" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn57;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[57]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “History of the Salvation Army”:
</span><a href="http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/816DE20E46B88B2685257435005070FA?openDocument&charset=utf-8"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/816DE20E46B88B2685257435005070FA?openDocument&charset=utf-8</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
; accessed 2/15/12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn58" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn58;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[58]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See the review of elements of
Salvation Army as they relate to A.A.: </span><a href="http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2012/01/salvation-army-influence-on-and.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2012/01/salvation-army-influence-on-and.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn59" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn59;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[59]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Howard Clinebell, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Understanding and Counseling Persons with
Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions</i>, rev. and enl. ed. (Nashville,
Abingdon Press, 1998).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/AAs%20Christian%20Progenitors%20%20%20k%20rev%20%2003%2019%202015%20%20from%20Bill%20W%20Dr%20Bob%20%20the%20Cure%20of%20Alcoholism%20class%20guide%20Script%20Video%20Three%20%2011%2021%202014.docx" name="_ftn60" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn60;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[60]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The techniques of the Salvation
Army were summarized and given high praise in: Francis W. McPeek, “The Role of
Religious Bodies in the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,” Lecture
26 of the Yale Alcohol Studies Lectures of 1945, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcohol, Science and Society: Twenty-nine Lectures with Discussions as
Given at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies</i> (New Haven: Quarterly
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Inc., 1945). Rev.
McPeek stated: “Much work was done in city missions and particularly by the
Salvation Army. The Army, however, has focused its efforts on the conversion
experience and has made use of its own facilities and of other community
resources when these were needed in aftercare. . . . Generally speaking, the
Salvationists have capitalized on the same techniques that have made other
reform programs work: (1) Insistence on total abstinence; (2) Reliance upon
God; (3) the provision of new friendships among those who understand; (4) the
opportunity to work with those who suffer from the same difficulty; and (5)
unruffled patience and consistent faith in the ability of the individual and in
the power of God to accomplish the desired results” [pp. 414-15].<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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great length in Dick B. and Ken B., <i>Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Society of Christian Endeavor from the Beginning and in All Lands </i>(Philadelphia,
PA: Gillespie & Metzgar, 1895), 160.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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174-75, 177-8, 180, 183-84.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ed., 18; Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of
Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>143-67.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Works</i>, new, rev. ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc.,
1998).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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directly from a foundational book by Robert E. Speer, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Principles of Jesus: Applied to Some Questions of Today</i> (NY:
Fleming H. Revell, 1902). Some writers have erroneously spoken of them as
having been derived from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. For further elaboration on
the biblical sources for the four absolutes, see how varied those alleged
sources are. Start with the proposition that they were not taken directly from
verses in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. Note that Robert E. Speer cited several
Bible sources other than just those in Matthew 5, 6, and 7. Note too that
history has done the sources a bad turn. Shoemaker attributed them to the
Sermon. Henry B. Wright added a whole series of Bible verses for each absolute;
and those verses came not just from various Gospel verses, but also from many
in the church Epistles. Finally, AAs began writing pamphlets simply making up
their own interpretations of the absolutes. Therefore the student of the four
absolutes can best start learning by looking at the variations and then making
up his own mind from the evidence, rather than from the opinions. See Speer’s
book. Then see Henry Burt Wright, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Will of God and a Man’s Lifework </i>as re-written in “General Books” and dated
2009. Then see this reprint’s discussion on pages 79-105. Then see Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oxford Group & Alcoholics Anonymous:
A Design for Living that Works, </i>2d ed., pages 56-57, 310-11<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-91366511642296477582015-03-18T19:17:00.001-07:002015-03-18T19:17:40.646-07:00The Runner's Bible in Old School A.A.<u><span style="color: navy;">Roots and Practices <span class="meta-nav">→</span><!-- #nav-above --></span></u> <br />
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The Runner’s Bible Dr. Bob Favored and Early AAs Used<br />
Dick B.<br />© 2013 Anonymous. All rights reserved<br />
I often turn to the Bible for more information about God’s promises, or for more reminders of how much Jesus Christ accomplished for us on the cross, or of how many ways we can count on God as our sufficiency—God, who supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.<br />
Perhaps you too get immersed in trying to read all of Romans, or all of 1 Corinthians, or all of Hebrews. And, as both Dr. Bob and his wife Anne suggested, not a day should pass without looking to the Bible as the main source book of all. See <a href="http://www.dickb.com/annesm.shtml" rel="nofollow" sl-processed="1">http://www.dickb.com/annesm.shtml</a>.<br />
However, Dr. Bob took a somewhat different course each day. DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers reports that Dr. Bob would go upstairs three times a day and do the following: (1) Pray. (2) Study a particular subject in the Bible. (3) Seek God’s guidance as to how he should spend his time along those lines. (4) “Going about his Father’s business.”<br />
From A.A.’s Conference-approved literature, and from Dr. Bob’s son Robert R. Smith, and from frequent mention of The Runner’s Bible by early AAs, I made a special effort to find a copy. I did. And it was in a seminary’s discarded books box – for free. And I saw why this compilation of vital promises, assurances, and guides was so important to the Christian “on the run” during a busy day. I later realized this hard-to-obtain devotional had been reprinted and was available at a very reasonable price. And, like Dr. Bob, I have given copies to a good many alcoholics and drug addicts who wanted God’s help.<br />
And I think a look at the Table of Contents (with chapter headings) will show you the wide utility of looking at the categorized subjects—listed as follows:<br />
The next answer can properly be: The Runner’s Bible: Spiritual Guidance for People on the Run, compiled and annotated by Nora Holm, with an Introduction by Polly Berrien Berends (Lakewood, CO: I Level, Acropolis Books, 1998). This book is a reprint of The Runner’s Bible prepared in 1910 by Nora Holm. I found a copy of the earlier book among the books of Dr. Bob that were shown to me by Dr. Bob’s son and daughter. And Dr. Bob’s son, Robert R. Smith, told me that this was a favorite devotional his father used. The following statement of the chapter headings may well show why:<br />
“In the Morning Will I Order My Prayer to Thee”<br />The Godhead<br /> God the Father<br /> The Christ of God<br /> Him That Filleth All in All<br /> His Image and Likeness<br /> Walk in Love<br /> Rejoice Always<br /> In Everything Give Thanks<br /> Fear Not, Only Believe<br /> Get Wisdom, Get Understanding<br /> Ask and Ye Shall Receive<br /> He That is The Greatest Among You Shall Be Your Servant<br /> Forgive and Ye Shall Be Forgiven<br /> Be of Good Cheer, Thy Sins Be Forgiven Thee<br /> I Will Help Thee<br /> Behold, I Will Heal Thee<br /> For Thine Is The Power<br /> The Lord Shall Guide Thee Continually<br /> Thou Shalt Walk In Thy Way Safely<br /> All Things Are Yours<br /> Peace Be Unto You<br /> Happy Shalt Thou Be<br /> The Lord Will Lighten My Darkness <br />
Those familiar with the Bible will quickly recognize the biblical references in the subjects. They will also see biblical expressions applied in early A.A. And they will be seeing, in the many verses under each subject, just what “basic ideas” Dr. Bob stated the early AAs began studying, exerting themselves to learn, and teaching.<br />
For more information, see Dick B., Good Morning!: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation, and Early A.A. <a href="http://www.dickb.com/goodmorn/shtml" rel="nofollow" sl-processed="1">http://www.dickb.com/goodmorn/shtml</a>. And contact dickb at <a href="mailto:dickb@dickb.com" sl-processed="1">dickb@dickb.com</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where to Find “the Rest of the Story” in A.A. History
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My dad (pen name: “Dick B.”; main website: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.DickB.com</span></a>) and I have spent the last 25
years researching A.A. history, and the roles played by God, His Son Jesus
Christ, and the Bible in early Alcoholics Anonymous—particularly in Akron and
to some extent in Cleveland. As you may know, in many parts of the United
States, Christians involved with A.A. (and other 12 Step Fellowships, such as
N.A. and C.A.) often get “yelled at” for talking about Jesus or the Bible at
meetings (and sometimes even for talking about God!) Why? Very simple. Because
the vast majority of members of 12 Step Fellowships today either don’t know
about the Christianity in early A.A.; or they don’t like the fact that it was
there, and in some cases are even trying to suppress the facts of its existence.
What should a Christian involved with A.A. and/or other 12-Step Fellowships
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You may want to practice answering the following three
questions relating to your attending 12-Step Fellowship meetings:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Think back to meetings at which you have been “yelled at”
for talking about God, His Son Jesus Christ, and/or the Bible. If you can’t
answer “Yes” to the three questions above, why are you surprised that you got
yelled at? Rom 8:31 (KJV) states: “What shall we then say to these things? If
God be for us, who can be against us?” The key, then, is to make sure God is
“backing your play,” by making sure you know and are doing God’s will. And not
merely “trying to do the right thing” or “faking it ‘till you make it”! (And
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How can you share more effectively about how God, His Son
Jesus Christ, and the Bible factor into the “experience, strength, and hope” in
your life in 12 Step Fellowship meetings (like those of A.A.)? My dad often
likes to say: “Master the Big Book!” And what is the most important source for
information about the Christianity in early A.A.? It is A.A. General Service
Conference-approved literature—starting with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(“the Big Book”). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are some key pieces of A.A. General Service Conference-approved
literature which illustrate the Christianity in early A.A. That knowledge will
provide a solid foundation from which you can share about how you established
your relationship with God (which is the purpose of the Big Book’s personal
stories—see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 29):<o:p></o:p></div>
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fourth edition (2001), hardback</b>, with dust jacket in great condition. Why?<o:p></o:p></div>
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133 of which either refer to the Creator of the heavens and the earth, or
include Him as one of the possible choices (e.g., in the phase “God <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” in Steps Three and
Eleven on page 59);<o:p></o:p></div>
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referring to God on pages 1-164 (“Thou,” “Thy,” “Thee,” “He,” “His,” and
“Him”);<o:p></o:p></div>
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of God on pages 1-164 (“Creator,” 12 times; “Maker,” two times; “the Father,”
once; and “the Father of Light,” once).<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->For the front cover of the blue and yellow dust
jacket, which states: “Alcoholics Anonymous: This is the Fourth Edition of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Big Book, the Basic Text for Alcoholics
Anonymous.” Thus making clear that it is the entire book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i> which is the “basic text” for the Society of
Alcoholics Anonymous—not merely “the first 164 pages.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->For page xi in the “PREFACE,” which states even
more clearly the previous point: “. . . [T]his book has become the basic text
for our Society . . .” Again, it is the whole "Big Book"—not merely
"the first 164 pages"—which is “the basic text.”) And why is the
meaning of the phrase “the basic text” so important? The answer will take us in
a moment to the importance of the first edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->For the personal story of “Alcoholic Anonymous
Number Three,” Akron attorney Bill D. This personal testimony was not included
in the first edition of the Big Book. It was first included in the second
edition published in 1955. (Read, for example, page 191 in Bill D.’s story to
see one reason why its presence in the Big Book is so important relative to
seeing the Christianity in early A.A.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The seven positive statements about the “cure”
of alcoholism found on pages 1-192 of the fourth edition. For example, A.A.
cofounder Bill W. himself is quoted by “Alcoholic Anonymous Number Three,” Bill
D., as having stated to Bill D.’s wife in mid-July 1935: “. . . ‘Henrietta, the
Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I
just want to keep talking about it and telling people.’” [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 191]. One wonders why
Bill had changed his story by the time he wrote in late 1938 chapter six, “Into
Action,” which contains the single negative statement found on pages 1-192 of the
fourth edition about not being “cured” of alcoholism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The first edition (April 1939)</b>. Why?<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->For the wording “spiritual experience” in Step
12, which was changed to “spiritual awakening” in the second printing of the
first edition (and which wording remains in Step Twelve to this day. “Spiritual
experience” hearkens back, and is much closer, to the original language of
early A.A.—a (vital) “religious experience.” (And here consider the title of
the book A.A. cofounder Bill W. impacted him so powerfully in the earliest days
of his sobriety, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Varieties of
Religious Experience</i>, by William James.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->For the 29 personal testimonies in
the "Personal Stories" section, 17 of which were written by
Christian A.A. pioneers A.A.’s first group in the world, “Akron Number One,”
where most of A.A.’s early success occurred prior to the publication of the Big
Book in 1939. 22 of those 29 personal stories were not included in the second
edition published in 1955. Four more of the original first edition personal
stories were not included in the fourth edition published in 2001. And of the
three first edition personal stories which were included in the fourth edition:
<o:p></o:p></div>
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personal story of A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob, titled “The Doctor’s Nightmare” in
the first edition, was retitled “Dr. Bob’s Nightmare” and edited in a minor way
for the second and following editions; <o:p></o:p></div>
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personal story titled “Our Southern Friend” was edited in a major way for the
second and following editions; and <o:p></o:p></div>
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personal story titled “The Fearful One” in the first edition was retitled “The
Man Who Mastered Fear” and was completely rewritten for the second and
following editions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The personal testimonies contained in the first edition are very
important—especially the 17 stories written by members of the “Christian
fellowship” known as “Akron Number One”—because they are speaking largely of
the original Akron A.A. program cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob began developing
over the summer of 1935 right after Dr. Bob got sober in June. Frank Amos, an
agent of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., summarized in seven points that original,
highly-successful Akron A.A. program, as it looked in late February 1938, in a
report he prepared for Mr. Rockefeller. Excerpts from his report, including his
seven-point summary, were reprinted in the A.A. General Service
Conference-approved book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers </i>on page 131. In speaking of the original Akron program, Mitchell
K., the biographer of Dr. Bob’s “sponsee” Clarence S. (who founded A.A.’s third
group in the world in Cleveland on May 11, 1939; and whose sobriety date was
February 11, 1938), on page 108 of his title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of
Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio </i>(Washingtonville, NY: AA Big Book
Study Group, 1999),<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>stated: “Two
years after the publication of the book [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i>], Clarence made a survey of all of the members in Cleveland. He concluded
that by keeping most of the ‘old program,’ including the Four Absolutes and the
Bible, ninety-three percent of those surveyed had maintained uninterrupted
sobriety.” In contrast, when Bill W. first wrote the 12 Steps around December
1938, he stated on page 162 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age</i> that he had just written “the new version of the
program, now the ‘Twelve Steps.’” On page 164 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, Bill W. goes on to say: “By
January [1939] the Akronites had produced eighteen fine stories. . . . With
somewhat more difficulty the New York Group produced ten stories. . . . [T]he
story section of the book was complete in the latter part of January, 1939.”
Thus the members of the Akron and New York groups were clearly writing about a
program that predated Bill W.’s “new version.” And it was that “old
program,”--developed in Akron by A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob—that been
(and still can be today) highly successful. And those first edition personal
stories contain many references to the Christianity in early A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Today, there are two important reprints of the
first edition of the Big Book that are readily available and inexpensively
priced.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On April 10, 2014, A.A. issued he 75th
Anniversary reprint of the first edition of <i>Alcoholics Anonymous</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, for which the copyright date was April 10,
1939. The importance of this version of the first edition of the Bi Book is
that it is A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature. As a result, it
can be brought to and read from in any A.A. meeting listed in the official
Meeting Schedule without “legitimate” objection.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition</i>, with a 23-page Introduction by Dick
B. (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2011): <a href="http://mcaf.ee/8xi7o" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://mcaf.ee/8xi7o</span></a>. This is
an exact reprint of the first edition, except that: (a) it contains an
extensive Introduction by Dick B.; and (b) the long-outdated Appendix has been
removed. (You can always read the Dick B. Introduction in this version, but
bring the “official” version to meetings so you can read from the 29 original
personal stories without any legitimate problems.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major Talks </i>(Item # P-53). Available
online at <a href="http://www.aa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.AA.org</span></a>. [Stock
up on copies of this pamphlet and give copies to those willing to learn “the
rest of the story.”]<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>DR.
BOB and the Good Oldtimers </i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(New
York, N.Y.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1980). The best source,
by far, about the Christianity in early A.A.—as seen especially in Akron and to
some extent in Cleveland. Page 144, for example, states: “(Dr. Bob was always
positive about his faith, Clarence said. If someone asked him a question about
the [A.A.] program, his usual response was: ‘What does it say in the Good
Book?’”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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There are many other references to the Christianity in early
A.A. in other A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature, such as: (1)
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Pass It On’</i>; (2) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>; even
(3) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As Bill Sees It </i>[See, for
example, the mentions of “Christ” and “the Master” in “No Personal Power” on
page 114.] There is also much valuable information in the A.A. Grapevine book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Language of the Heart: Bill W.’s
Grapevine Writings </i>(New York: The AA Grapevine, Inc., 1988). And there is an
“autobiography” of Bill W., Lois W.’s memoirs, a biography of Dr. William D.
Silkworth, Jr., and so on. And there is more. For example, check out the
“Russell S. Talks” on <a href="http://www.christianrecoveryradio.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.ChristianRecoveryRadio.com</span></a>.
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The key is to educate yourself in the relevant sections of
A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature. If you do, you will be
able to carry an accurate message to those who still suffer, focusing on
seeking out newcomers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gloria
Deo</span></i></b></div>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-34735490143616827622015-03-07T12:36:00.001-08:002015-03-07T12:36:46.843-08:00An Endorsement of Dr. Ian Mc Cabe's Forthcoming Book, "Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous"<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">An Endorsement of Dr. Ian Mc Cabe’s Forthcoming Book,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">© 2015 Anonymous. All rights reserved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Few writers have even attempted to tell the complete, unabridged story of how A.A. began and the varied sources of its ideas. My son Ken and I have devoted over 25 years to picking up the pieces and making sure that the entire story is presented in order to enhance the recovery hopes of millions of alcoholics and addicts. The prior efforts of others began with a dissertation completed in the 1970’s by a student now deceased. And, as the years passed, it became clear that there was no single chain of facts that truthfully and fully gave the picture to still-suffering alcoholics or that truthfully recorded the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in enabling a handful of suffering souls to fashion a “Christian fellowship” out of their drinking experiences, the viewpoints of some distinguished writers, and a potpourri of thoughts by physicians, clergy, treatment workers, and authors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In part of Dr. Ian Mc Cabe’s book about Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous, he delves into the huge reservoir of tangled facts relating to A.A.’s history, its “founders,” the distinguished writers who have covered various pieces of the puzzling picture, and Mc Cabe’s opinions as to how the facts can, if possible, be reconciled.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But those facts cannot be reconciled. Instead, Mc Cabe has furnished his readers with the kind of panoply of efforts which need to be examined as a whole, documented with appropriate sources, and avoid the daunting task of chewing an elephant bite by bite. Mc Cabe writes well, blankets his field with hitherto muddled facts that need clarifying, and still leaving lots of editing to be done.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We can, with due respect, describe the whole of Mc Cabe’s work as follows: (1) In the course of discussing Carl Jung’s influence on Alcoholics Anonymous, it boldly attacks many details about A.A.’s founders, A.A.’s sources, and the varied remarks of those believers and unbelievers who have busied themselves attacking the Bible, the religious origins of A.A., and the interpretations of those who have variously been called fundamentalists, conservatives, and hobbyists. (2) It bravely steps into the tangled brush and enables readers to examine each of a wide number of diverse sources which have often been lacking in coherent research and writing. (3) Half-truths do not a full picture paint. And the Mc Cabe book helpfully opens the door to A.A. and its roots as they look today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If I were to arouse further interest in Mc Cabe’s book, I would emphasize the following: (1) It is a “founders” book because it calls for more research and more resources on the founders—William James, Carl Jung, William D. Silkworth, the Oxford Group, Rev. Sam Shoemaker, and most assuredly the Bible. And I will have some pithy references to Silkworth and to the Bible, and how their full impact has been ignored. (2) Writers have missed the boat when it has come to how much the Christian upbringing of A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the Vermont roots of Bill and Bob, and the 28 Oxford Group ideas flowed into A.A. And it is there where a great body of our writing of 46 titles and 1,700 articles has reposed under the carpet of those interested in New Thought, atheists and agnostics, spirituality, and idolatrous higher powers. (3) Since Carl Jung has appropriately received special attention in Mc Cabe’s book, readers may realize that the Jung contribution of “vital religious experience” needs in depth work particularly since it was originally embodied in the A.A. Big Book’s Chapter Two, titled “There is a Solution.” And Bill’s solution has been diluted into “spiritual experience,” “spiritual awakening,” “personality change,” and “You don’t have to believe in anything at all.” For those amendments have wreaked havoc with the recovery ideas of James, Jung, Silkworth, Shoemaker, and most certainly the Bible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I would also eliminate all secular discussions of “spirituality,” “not-godness,” and the “higher power” idolatry that Ernest Kurtz, now deceased, spawned. For a keen appreciation of why early A.A. laid the foundation stone for recovery by the power of God can be seen in these remarks:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(a)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In reflecting on a letter Dr. Silkworth wrote which was included in the Big Book, Bill W. stated:<o:p></o:p></div>
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. . . [O]ur bodies were sickened as well. . . . [A]ny picture of the alcoholic which leaves out this physical factor is incomplete. </div>
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The doctor’s theory that we have an allergy to alcohol interests us. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., xxvi]<o:p></o:p></div>
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And in the letter to which Bill referred above, Dr. Silkworth himself stated: <o:p></o:p></div>
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We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy</i>; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, . . . their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>4<sup>th</sup> ed., xxviii; (italics added)]<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(b)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In the opinion of the present writer (Dick B.), Silkworth’s ideas were alluded to, without attribution to him, in other places in the Big Book. For example:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">will power becomes practically nonexistent</b>. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We are without defense against the first drink. </b></i>[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 24; italics in original, bolding added]<u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Thus started one more journey to the asylum for Jim. Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which drinking always caused him. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk!</i> [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 36-37; italics in original].<o:p></o:p></div>
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But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge</i></b>. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 39; italics in original, bolding added].<u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">However, Silkworth’s least-known and most vital contribution to Alcoholics Anonymous was his advice to Bill W. during Bill’s third stay at Towns Hospital in September 1934 that the “Great Physician” (Jesus Christ) could cure Bill of his alcoholism. </b>[Dale Mitchel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks </i>(Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 2002), 44. See also: pp. 47, 49-51, 225 (fn. 10). And see further: (1) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i> (New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1957), 61; (2) Bill W., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My First 40 Years </i>(Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 2000), 139, 145; and (3) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 191.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Bible is the source most ignored, distorted, misunderstood, and shelved today. Here, however, are the documented words of A.A.’s founders that demonstrate beyond argument that the Holy Bible—called the “Good Book” by early AAs—was the major, the original, and the most important founding source of A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But we were convinced that the answer to our problems was in the Good Book. To some of us older ones, the parts that we found absolutely essential were the Sermon on the Mount, the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and the Book of James.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We used to have daily meetings at a friend’s house. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major Talks</i> (New York, NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1972, 1975), 13 (“Pamphlet P-53”)]<o:p></o:p></div>
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It wasn’t until 1938 that the teachings and efforts and studies that had been going on were crystallized in the form of the Twelve Steps. I didn’t write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. But I think I probably had something to do with them indirectly. After my June 10th episode, Bill came to live at our house and stayed for three months. There was hardly a night that we didn’t sit up until two or three o’clock, talking. It would be hard for me to conceive that, during these nightly discussions around our kitchen table, nothing was said that influenced the writing of the Twelve Steps. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We already had the basic ideas</b>, though not in terse and tangible form. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We got them</b>, as I said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as a result of our study of the Good Book</b>. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major Talks</i> (New York, NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1972, 1975), 14 (“Pamphlet P-53”); bolding added. See also: Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Good Book and the Big Book: A.A.’s Roots in the Bible</i>, Bridge Builders ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1997), ix, 1-7].<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Bob wrote: “If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you. . . . Your Heavenly Father will never let you down! [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 181].<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Bob’s wife, Anne Ripley Smith, wrote in her personal journal for the years 1933 through 1939 from which she shared with A.A. pioneers: “Of course the Bible ought to be the main Source Book of all. No day ought to pass without reading it.” [Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne Smith's Journal, 1933-1939: A.A.'s Principles of Success</i>, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1998), 5].<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">quoted on page 114 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As Bill Sees It</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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In a letter Bill W. wrote in 1940, he stated: "At
first, the remedy for my personal difficulties seemed so obvious that I could
not imagine any alcoholic turning the proposition down were it properly
presented to him. Believing so firmly that Christ can do anything, I had the
unconscious conceit to suppose that He would do everything through me--right
then and in the manner I chose. After six months, I had to admit that not a
soul had surely laid hold of the Master--not excepting myself." [<i>As
Bill Sees It</i> (New York, NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.,
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-74029324494727790082015-03-02T13:14:00.001-08:002015-03-02T13:14:55.994-08:00Elements of “Old School” A.A. That Can be Applied in Recovery Today
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The First Congregational Church of
Bennington, Vermont is located on Monument Avenue in Bennington, Vermont. It
was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is also known
as the Old First Church. It was “gathered” on December 3, 1762, the first
Protestant congregation in the New Hampshire Grants. The current meeting house
was built in 1805.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
[Bicentennial Discourse and Sermon, on August 13, 2006]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob were much involved with
Congregational Churches. So were Bill and Bob themselves. Dr. Bob and his
family attended the North Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. They
frequently attended five times a week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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matriculated, was dominated by Congregationalists; and the influence spilled
over into the school requirement that a Congregational Church be attended once
a week; so too with a Bible study; and daily chapel was required—with sermons,
hymns, reading of Scripture, and prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and the Griffiths) had homes immediately adjacent to East Dorset Congregational
Church in East Dorset where Bill was born and raised. Both families regularly
attended that church. Bill attended the Sunday school as well as revivals,
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Congregationalist dominated Burr and Burton Seminary, Bill took a four year
Bible study course there; attended daily chapel with sermons, hymns, prayers,
and reading of Scripture. And students frequently marched from the Seminary to
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convention in 1895, titled “The Influence of Congregationalism upon Vermont.”
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George Williams, a draper, founded
the Young Men’s Christian Association in London on June 6, 1844. The first YMCA
in the United States was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 29,
1851.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brethren—with the YMCA’s non-denominational approach—conducted canvasses to
bring the Gospel to non-Christians and “awakening” to Christians in the New
England area.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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laymen were largely responsible for organizing what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>became “The Great Awakening” of 1875 in St.
Johnsbury. It was a widely-reported event which completely transformed the
community of St. Johnsbury, resulted in construction of many churches, and
produced conversion of a large portion of the population to God through His Son
Jesus Christ.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well-known evangelists who held
campaigns in Vermont around the time Bill W. and Dr. Bob were growing up there
brought people to God through His Son Jesus Christ and often focused on healing
even drunkards.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conducted a week-long campaign in St. Johnsbury at the end of October, 1877,
just before Dr. Bob was born on August 8, 1879. Many of the other well-known
evangelists were not only linked together in friendship, but also in a chain of
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Protestantism, revivalists held fast to the belief that the universe was neatly
divided between God and Satan, the elect and the damned, the pure and the
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Finney to Lyman Beecher to Dwight Moody, Bible-clutching evangelists preached
the complete authority of the Scriptures, the necessity of personal conversion,
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Protestantism taught a close relationship between men and women and their God,
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began in 1857 deeply influenced America. . . . Across the ocean, the 1859
awakening in Britain raised a host of evangelists, missionaries, and social
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home missions, establishing Sunday schools and churches throughout both
nations. The YMCA, the Salvation Army, the China Inland Mission, the Christian
Brethren, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance were just a few of the many
ministries and denominations born early in this awakening.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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philosopher, contended that there was scientific value to the stories of
Christian conversions; that these properly belonged among the data of religion,
to be weighed by the man of science. This point is one of the most critical in
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healing in his ministry after he observed an opium addict delivered and a
missionary’s cancerous jaw healed instantaneously through the prayers of
concerned believers during Dwight L. Moody’s revival meetings in Boston in
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of Clarendon Church, which Gordon pastored, and brought reformed drunkards and
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evangelists are many, the following deserve special attention with reference to
the First Century Christian origins of the Christian Recovery Movement and the
influence on A.A.’s founders:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dwight L. Moody;</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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superintendent at the mission, Samuel Hopkins Hadley (also known as “S. H.
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Hadley II (also known as “Harry Hadley”)--named after S. H. Hadley’s brother,
Colonel Henry Harrison Hadley--collaborated with Rev. Sam Shoemaker in opening
the Calvary Mission on 23rd Street in Manhattan in 1926 and became its first
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(“Tex”) Francisco—who took over as superintendent of Calvary Mission in
1933—was the superintendent of the Calvary Mission when Bill W.’s “sponsor,”
Ebby Thacher, accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior there on November 1,
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was still the superintendent when Bill W. accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and
Savior there about December 7, 1934, just before Bill entered Towns Hospital
for his fourth and final stay for alcoholism treatment on December 11, 1934.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the tens of thousands of down-and-outers that went through Water Street
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both Ebby Thacher and Bill Wilson accepted Christ, also report on the thousands
helped in that facility which was owned by Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker’s Calvary
Episcopal Church in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“General” William Booth founded an
organization in July 1865 in England— an early name for which was “The
Christian Mission”—that became known as “The Salvation Army” in 1878. Booth
sent an official group to the United States in 1880 to pioneer work for the
organization.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drunkards, derelicts, and criminals in the slums became popularized in Harold
Begbie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice-Born Men</i>—a book owned,
circulated, and widely-read by Oxford Group people and by the Akron AAs.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[21]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Salvation Army are well discussed by Dr. Howard Clinebell of the Claremont
School of Theology.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[22]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Also in one of the lectures given at the Yale Alcohol
Studies in 1945—an event in which Bill Wilson was one of the participating
lecturers.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[23]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark
founded this society at the Williston Church in Portland, Maine, on February 2,
1881. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Convention was convened July 9 and 10, 1885, at Ocean Park, Maine, the “United
Society of Christian Endeavor” was founded and incorporated under the laws of
Maine. At that convention, Mr. Van Patten of Burlington, Vermont, was chosen
President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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young people in the church, spread throughout the world and reached a peak
membership of around 4.5 million members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, in 1887 (when Dr. Bob was about
eight years old); and Dr. Bob said he was actively involved in it “from
childhood through high school.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[24]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christian Endeavor’s ideas and
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original Akron A.A. program founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob in 1935.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[25]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Century Christian Fellowship” (Later also Known as “the Oxford Group”)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc317412383;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us also look at the Oxford
Group—which originally called itself “A First Century Christian Fellowship”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[26]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—and aspects of its influence on early A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the Group’s earliest days, Oxford
Group leader Sherwood Sunderland Day wrote a little pamphlet succinctly
summarizing the principles of the Oxford Group.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[27]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Day wrote at the beginning of his pamphlet that the principles
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And if you read my [Dick B.’s]
comprehensive book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oxford Group and
Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[28]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> you will see two major points: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that impacted on A.A. each rested on biblical principles Bill W. incorporated
into the Big Book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Group writer—many of whose books were read by early AAs--quoted the Bible in
support of those 28 principles that later impacted on Bill’s language and
approach to the Big Book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“I am always glad to say privately that some of the Oxford Group presentation
and emphasis upon the Christian message saved my life.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[29]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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clearer on what the Oxford Group and its First Century Christianity had done
for A.A. and for her Bill. Lois wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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formed at that time) owes a great debt to the Oxford Group.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[30]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The next few months were a happy
time for Bill. He had the companionship of his alcoholic friends, the spiritual
inspiration of the Oxford Group and the satisfaction of being useful to those
he worked with.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[31]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love, moral
standards by which every thought and action should be tested.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[32]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God, through the Oxford Group, had
accomplished in a twinkling what I had failed to do in seventeen years.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[33]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reverend
Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., played an important role in the developing of A.A.’s
Twelve Steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. Garrett Stearly, a
key Shoemaker colleague, was an eye witness to a conversation between Bill
Wilson and Sam Shoemaker relating to the Twelve Steps. In that discussion, Bill
actually asked Sam to write the Twelve Steps, but Sam declined.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[34]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shoemaker colleague, Rev. W. Irving Harris, was Shoemaker’s assistant minister
and actually worked with Shoemaker and Bill W. on the book project. James
Newton provided me with a newspaper photo of Bill W., Irving Harris, and his
wife Julia Harris, crediting Irving and Julia Harris with a prominent role in
the development of A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harris, wife of Rev. W. Irving Harris,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>sent Dick B. a number of Shoemaker books, Harris’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Breeze of the Spirit,</i> and wrote one
of the Forewords to Dick’s book about Shoemaker and A.A.—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Light on Alcoholism, </i>2d ed. It was A.A. archivist Nell Wing who
put Dick in touch with Julia Harris—Irving having passed on. But Julia sent to
Dick a memorandum typed personally by Irvin g Harris that contained a great
deal of information about Bill W.’s rebirth at Calvary Mission and his later
collaboration with Shoemaker on the proposed Big Book and Steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The memorandum is produced in full on pages
533-35 in Appendix Four of Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
Light on Alcoholism, </i>2d ed. The Harris memo is also reproduced on pages
20-21 of the following book about Samuel M. Shoemaker: Bill Pittman and Dick
B., comp. and ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courage to Change: The
Christian Roots of the 12-Step Movement</i> (Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H.
Revell, 1994).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harris wrote specifically in the memo that it was at Calvary Mission where Bill
“was moved to declare that he had decided to launch out as a follower of Jesus
Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harris then pointed out how
Bill and Sam had worked on the Big Book ideas in Shoemaker’s “book-lined study”
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further pointed out that Bill was familiar with the aforementioned seven basic
principles of Christian living as laid out for Shoemaker by Rev. Sherry Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also wrote that, in the course of Bill’s talking to Shoemaker, Sam would say of
the manuscript materials: “Sounds like good old fashioned Christian faith,
Bill.” And Bill would reply: “Yes it looks that way . . . almost too good to be
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addition to being rector of Calvary Church, Shoemaker was the chief American
lieutenant of the Oxford Group, and his church’s Calvary House actually
provided offices for the Oxford Group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shoemaker, in his writings, many many times referred to the Oxford Group as “A
First Century Christian Fellowship.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
also spoke of First Century Christianity in terms of a fellowship.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[35]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wilson wrote that she and Bill were kind of “kicked out” of the Oxford Group in
August of 1937.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref36" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn36;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[36]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Akron AAs met every Wednesday in what one observer called a “clandestine
lodge” of the Oxford Group,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref37" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn37;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[37]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
the daily Christian Fellowship meetings and the daily morning Quiet Times with
Dr. Bob’s wife did not even closely resemble Oxford Group meetings. In early
January, 1940, Dr. Bob wrote to Bill W. that Akron had “definitely shaken off
the shackles of the Oxford Group.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftnref38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[38]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Their Ministry, 1762-1942. Historical and Statistical. </i>(St. Johnsbury, VT:
The Cowles Press, Inc., 1942), 9: “The rapid settlement of Vermont did not
begin until the close of the French and Indian War. . . . Settlers now came in
rapidly from the longer settled parts of New England. These were nearly all of
Puritan stock, and so naturally Congregationalists. The first of the new
settlements was at Bennington, and there the first church of our order and the
first Protestant church in the state was organized in 1762, the next year after
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The Y/YMCA Web site: </span></span><a href="http://www.ymca.net/history/founding.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://www.ymca.net/history/founding.html</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ; accessed 2/15/12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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One Hundred Twenty-Five Years to the Anniversary Pageant 1912</i> (St.
Johnsbury, Vt.: The Cowles Press, 1914), 316-17.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>67-68, 97, 119, 125-28, 171, 247-62.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Johnsbury, Vermont, began on February 6, 1875, just a few months before Dwight
L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey arrived back in America on August 14, 1875,
following their two-year tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Dr. Bob was
born on August 8, 1879, and graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1898. He
then left Vermont to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Bill
W. was born on November 26, 1895. Bill turned his back on God during his senior
year at Burr and Burton Academy after the young woman he was in love with,
Bertha Bamford, died on November 18, 1912.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Evangelism</i> (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 134-35.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Elmer Towns and Douglas Porter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ten Greatest Revivals Ever: From
Pentecost to the Present </i>(Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2000), 136.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Moody Press, 1959), 136.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Richard M. Riss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Survey of 20<sup>th</sup>-Century Revival
Movements in North America</i> (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988), 22. For
further understanding of Gordon’s role, see A. J. Gordon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ministry of Healing: Miracles of Cure in All Ages</i> (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1881); and Scott M. Gibson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A. J. Gordon: American Premillennialist (</i>Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 2001).<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Pentecost to the Present </i>(Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2000):
Finney was converted in 1821 (p. 100). In what became known as “The General
Awakening” period ending in 1830, Finney had taken his ministry to New York
where some 100,000 people were converted (p. 104). Finney had previously
conducted his early meetings throughout rural New England (p. 98). He was known
as the “Father of Modern Revivalism,” became known as the originator of the
altar call and the “anxious seat” for those expected to come to Jesus Christ
(p. 102). Kenneth O. Brown, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy Ground:
The Camp Meeting Family </i>Tree (Hazleton, PA: Holiness Archives, 1997):
Finney used a huge tent in Oberlin, Ohio in 1835. And he, along with Dwight
Moody, Billy Sunday, Oral Roberts, and Billy Graham became famed for what was
called “Tabernacle revivalism” (pp. 64-65). Roger A. Bruns, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Billy Sunday and Big Time American
Evangelism</i> (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001): His
most famous sermon was “Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts” (p. 67). He
often pointed out sinners in the audience, challenging them personally to
forsake their evil ways and to follow Christ (p. 68). He had a vision of a
mighty force of reformed Christians purifying the nation of sin and sordidness;
and he took the revivalist impulse and mass conversion efforts from rural
settings into the cities (p. 69). Many read his handbook on revivalism (p. 70).
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famous English evangelist, F. B. Meyer. That is probably one of the reasons is
that he touched so many of the lives that impacted on early A.A through
evangelists and revivals. Bob Holman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">F.B.
Meyer: “If I Had a Hundred Lives” </i>(Great Britain: Christian Focus
Publications, Ltd., 2007): He was one of the great influences in the
evangelical world in the latter 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century. He
helped launch the then unknown Dwight L. Moody for his first evangelistic
mission in the UK, was himself a famous Holiness preacher on both sides of the
Atlantic, played a role in the Welsh revival of 1904, and was an outstanding
Bible teacher of his day (p. 2). He believed the Bible as God’s revelation;
that conversion depended upon belief in heart and mind; that mankind was justly
condemned for sin but God’s infinite love resulted in Jesus coming to earth and
that his death is accepted by Infinite justice as the basis for reconciliation
between man and God (p. 21). At the invitation of Dwight Moody, he went to the
U.S. to speak at the well-established Northfield Conference (p. 65). He was
asked to head Christ Church, and negotiated for the post with George Williams,
a trustee at Christ Church who had played a large part in the founding of the
Young Men’s Christian Association (p. 67). He believed the Sunday diet was not
sufficient for Christian growth; and he introduced the Monday prayer meeting,
held a service and sermon at noon on Thursdays, and conducted a Bible reading
on Friday evening. And he launched a Young Men’s Christian Association program
(pp. 76-77). He also took a close interest in the Young People’s Society of
Christian Endeavor and eventually became president of the Central South London
Christian Endeavor Union (p. 93). His evangelism resulted in many conversions
(p. 98). He spent a great deal of time serving others. On Saturday afternoons,
he would talk to and spend time with young men at the YMCA in central
London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 7 p.m., he would conduct the
worker’s prayer meeting. On Sundays he would usually preach at three services,
and also participate in one or more of the meetings for children and young
people (p. 104). He traveled to the United States at least 20 times; and in
1898 he went to Washington, D.C., opened the Senate with prayer, and had a talk
with President McKinley (p. 125). He also became President of the World’s
Sunday School Association (p. 126). He had much to do with the early life of
Oxford Group founder Frank Buchman. Buchman went to Britain the seek Meyer. In
1912, Meyer came to the Penn State College campus and told Buchman to listen
more to God than the phones and to work personally rather than organizing large
meetings. Buchman was much influenced by Meyer’s books, especially his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Secret of Guidance </i>(p.155). F. B. Meyer
was president of the National Union of Christian Endeavor and the National
Sunday School Association (p. 181). He met Moody’s partner, Ira Sankey, and it
was Moody who taught Meyer how to win people to Christ (p. 30). Meyer reckoned
that in nine cases out of ten, drink had contributed to the crimes which landed
men in prison (p. 38). He worked with homeless boys and youngsters who had been
in prison (p. 43). Meyer told a group of young men: “A man must not only
believe in Christ for final salvation, but must trust him for victory over
every sin, and for deliverance from every care” (p. 47). Meyer also spoke at a
large meeting along with General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
(p. 195).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dwight L. Moody was elected president of the Illinois Sunday School
Association. He established a prayer meeting, called the “Illinois Band,” which
included such prominent Americans as H. J. Heinz and John Wannamaker—their goal
being to bring Christ to the world (p. 119). Moody became an evangelist, went
to England, returned to America preaching to huge crowds, but was cut down by
the Chicago fire and many deaths that accompanied it. Moody began making
invitations for conversion which he called “Instantaneous Conversion,”
explaining how people could be saved immediately by accepting Christ” (p.131).
Moody was a leader of the Young Men’s Christian Association, the American
Sunday School movement, and also was editor of Christian Endeavor’s pamphlet, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Golden Rule.</i> He brought to America
such famous evangelists as F. B. Meyer and Henry Drummond, and was a friend of
evangelist Allen Folger. Moody’s ideas were very much appropriated by Oxford
Group founder Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman and found their way into early A.A.
thinking. See J. Wilbur Chapman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life
and Work of Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)</i>, http//www.bible
believers.com/moody/index.html. See also: Riss, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Survey, </i>14-29; Towns and Porter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ten Greatest Revivals, </i>119, 130-38; and Mark O. Guldseth, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Streams</i> (Fritz Creek, AK: Fritz Creek
Studios, 1982).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As to Sankey, see: (1) J. Wilbur
Chapman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life and Work of Dwight L.
Moody</i> (Boston, MA: Geo. M. Smith, 1900); and (2) Edgar J. Goodspeed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wonderful Career of Moody and Sankey in
Great Britain and America</i> (NY: Henry B. Goodspeed & Co., 1876). See
also Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dick B.
Christian Recovery Guide, </i>3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research
Publications, Inc., 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Smith, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Life of Henry Drummond</i>
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899); and James Young Simpson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henry Drummond </i>(Edinburgh: Oliphant,
Anderson & Ferrier, 1901). Dr. Bob owned, read, studied, and circulated
among AAs a large number of Drummond’s books. Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob and His Library, </i>3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise
Research Publications, Inc., <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(London: Morgan and Scott, n.d.). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As to K. A. Burnell and H. M.
Moore, see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Record of Christian Work, </i>Vol.
18, April 1899, No. 4, 170-71. As to Burnell, Moody, and Sankey, see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Advance, </i>September 21, 1905, 318-19.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Allen Folger, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-five Years as an Evangelist </i>(Springfield,
MO J. H. Earle & Company, 1915). Folger was deeply involved with the Young
Men’s Christian Association evangelism with more than 700 meetings in New
England. He was involved with the Young Men’s Christian Association there (pp.
153, 215); with Moody and Sankey (p. 70); with healings (pp. 186-87);with the
problems of addiction and drinking people (p. 318); with conversion and
salvation (pp. 322-31, 289); with Vermont (p. 245); with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>revivals (p. 144); and with hundreds of
meetings (p. 334).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[18]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Billy was a baseball star, who
was converted to God through Jesus Christ, was trained in the Young Men’s
Christian Association, preached, converted thousands, was involved in Christian
Endeavor, and was a champion of “personal work.” His definition of conversion
was a complete surrender to Jesus Christ. He said: The plan of salvation is
presented to you in two parts. Believe in your heart and confess with your
mouth [Romans 10:9].<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, </i>3<sup>rd</sup>
ed., 8-11. See also: Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Conversion of Bill W.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “History of the Salvation Army”:
</span></span><a href="http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/816DE20E46B88B2685257435005070FA?openDocument&charset=utf-8"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/816DE20E46B88B2685257435005070FA?openDocument&charset=utf-8</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ; accessed 2/15/12.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Salvation Army as they relate to A.A.: </span></span><a href="http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2012/01/salvation-army-influence-on-and.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2012/01/salvation-army-influence-on-and.html</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions</i>, rev. and enl. ed. (Nashville,
Abingdon Press, 1998).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[23]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The techniques of the Salvation
Army were summarized and given high praise in: Francis W. McPeek, “The Role of
Religious Bodies in the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,” Lecture
26 of the Yale Alcohol Studies Lectures of 1945, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcohol, Science and Society: Twenty-nine Lectures with Discussions as
Given at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies</i> (New Haven: Quarterly
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Inc., 1945). Rev.
McPeek stated: “Much work was done in city missions and particularly by the
Salvation Army. The Army, however, has focused its efforts on the conversion
experience and has made use of its own facilities and of other community
resources when these were needed in aftercare. . . . Generally speaking, the
Salvationists have capitalized on the same techniques that have made other
reform programs work: (1) Insistence on total abstinence; (2) Reliance upon
God; (3) the provision of new friendships among those who understand; (4) the
opportunity to work with those who suffer from the same difficulty; and (5)
unruffled patience and consistent faith in the ability of the individual and in
the power of God to accomplish the desired results” [pp. 414-15].<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ed., 18; Dick B. and Ken B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of
Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>143-67.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[26]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Garth Lean, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frank Buchman: A Life </i>(London: Constable, 1995), 97.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(Great Britain: The Oxford Group, n.d.).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Works</i>, new, rev. ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc.,
1998).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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directly from a foundational book by Robert E. Speer, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Principles of Jesus: Applied to Some Questions of Today</i> (NY:
Fleming H. Revell, 1902). Some writers have erroneously spoken of them as
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[34]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This information was
conveyed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on a phone call to Dick B. by
Oxford Group activist James Draper Newton. Newton was a long-time friend of Sam
Shoemaker and of Rev. Garrett Stearly. He said that Stearly had twice told him
of this conversation, in order to make sure that Newton not only heard it and
heard it repeated and then remembered it. Newton phoned Dick B. on two
different occasions to tell him about Stearly, Shoemaker, Bill W. Twelve Step
proposal that Shoemaker declined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[35]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Light on Alcoholism, </i>2d ed., 228, 262-263, 278, 318-322; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courage to Change, </i>216.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn37" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn37;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[37]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good-Oldtimers, </i>121.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Christian%20Recovery%20Before%20AA%20%20%20Excerpted%20from%20the%20old%20Video%20Three%20Script%20from%20the%20Guidebook%20%20updated%20slightly%20%2003%2001%202015.docx" name="_ftn38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[38]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB, </i>218.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-33148756535162900502015-01-20T00:27:00.000-08:002015-01-20T00:27:18.973-08:00A.A. Cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob Speaking about Christ, the Lord, and Christianity: More Examples
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and Dr. Bob<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK5;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK6;">Speaking
about Christ, the Lord, and Christianity<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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More Examples<o:p></o:p></div>
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By Ken B.<o:p></o:p></div>
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
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My dad (Dick B.) and I recently published an article about some of the places
in A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature where Bill W. mentioned
"Jesus," "Christ," "the Lord,"
"Christian," or "Christianity." Here is a link to that
article on one of my dad's blogs:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There are other examples of where A.A. cofounders Bill W.
and Dr. Bob spoke about Christ, the Lord, or Christianity in A.A. General
Service Conference-approved literature. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here, for example, is one of the things A.A. cofounder Dr.
Bob said in his last major talk given at Detroit, Michigan, in December 1948:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christ said, "Of Myself,
I am nothing--My strength cometh from My Father in heaven." If He had to
say that, how about you and me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[Source: <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major
Talks</i> (New York, NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1972,
1975), 19; available to read FREE of charge at </span><a href="http://www.aa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.AA.org</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And here is how A.A. cofounder Bill W. concluded his last
major talk given on October 11, 1969, at the New York Hilton, at the
celebration of the 35th anniversary of Bill's sobriety:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like to conclude with
the memory of one of history's great figures with words dedicated to him that
have come down through the centuries. His name was Francis:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord make me a channel of thy
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Lord grant that I may seek rather to comfort than be comforted . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[Source: <i>The
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's another important statement Bill W. made to Henrietta
D., wife of "AA Number Three," Akron attorney Bill D, a week or two
after Bill D. had come out of the hospital on July 4, 1935:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. . . "Henrietta, the
Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I
just want to keep talking about it and telling people."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[Source: <i>Alcoholics
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Good Oldtimers</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The A.A. General Service Conference-approved book <i>DR.
BOB and the Good Oldtimers </i>contains a number of references to the
Christianity in early A.A.—especially as seen in Akron (and to some extent in
Cleveland). For example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Dr. Bob was a prominent
man in Akron. Everybody knew him. When he stopped drinking, people asked,
'What's this not-drinking-liquor club you've got over there?' 'A Christian
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[Source: <i>DR. BOB and
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In GOD's love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ken B.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Are you involved with a Christian Recovery and/or 12 Step:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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alcoholism & drug addiction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Start 2015 off right!</span></b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Add
to your recovery library the fruits of Dick B.’s 25 years of research on the
roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in early A.A.’s
astonishing success with “seemingly-hopeless,” “medically-incurable” alcoholics
who thoroughly followed the early A.A. path (and many also had problems with
drugs). Dick B.’s books will help you become more effective in equipping suffering
newcomers with “the rest of the story” of recovery, including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Similarities
between First Century Christianity (particularly as seen in the book of Acts)
and the early Akron A.A. program; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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principles and practices of A.A.’s Christian progenitors, including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Young Men’s Christian Association; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rescue missions; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Christian
evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody and F. B. Meyer;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Congregationalism (including the “Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Salvation Army; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor; and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“A
First Century Christian Fellowship” (later also known as “the Oxford Group”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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original, highly-successful, “old-school,” early Akron A.A. “Christian
fellowship,” program, and practices; and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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practices of First Century Christianity, Christian progenitors of A.A. from the
1850’s to the early 1930’s, and early Akron A.A., can serve as “lessons
learned” to enhance the effectiveness of Christian leaders and workers in
today’s recovery arena by enabling them to avoid unnecessarily “reinventing the
wheel” in carrying the message to those who still suffer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The 31-volume “Dick B. A.A. History and Christian Recovery
Reference Set” will enable you to see in a whole new light the solution A.A.
proposed for the problem of alcoholism:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There is a solution. . . .</span></i><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The great fact</span></b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> is just this, and nothing
less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have
revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward
God’s universe. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The central fact of our
lives today</b> is the absolute certainty that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is
indeed miraculous</b>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He has commenced
to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Big
Book, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 25; italics and asterisk in original; Appendix II: “Spiritual
Experience,” to which the asterisk refers, was not present in the first
edition, first printing, of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i> published in April 1939; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You will be able to share with newcomers more effectively <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original message of A.A.’s “first
three”</b>—A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob, and “AA Number Three” Bill D.:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Henrietta,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Lord has been so wonderful to me,
curing me of this terrible disease</b>, that I just want to keep talking about
it and telling people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Bill
W. to the wife of “AA Number Three” in mid-July, 1935; Big Book, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 191; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Your
Heavenly Father will never let you down!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Dr.
Bob, in the last line of his personal story; Big Book, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 181]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That sentence</span></b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [by Bill W.], “The Lord
has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I just
want to keep telling people about it,” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">has
been a sort of a golden text for the A.A. program and for me</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[“AA
Number Three,” Akron attorney Bill D., in his personal story; Big Book, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 191; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The “Dick B. A.A. History and Christian Recovery Reference Set”
will help you understand in depth why A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob, a medical doctor,
already felt comfortable in late June 1935 stating to “the nurse on the
receiving ward” at Akron’s City Hospital that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[H]e
[Dr. Bob] and a man from New York [Bill W.] had <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a cure for alcoholism</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Big
Book, 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 188; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s time for this nation, its families, and its citizens, long
crippled by alcoholism and drug addiction—along with the families and citizens
of other nations who have been similarly handicapped—to hear A.A.’s actual
solution for the problem of alcoholism. A solution that A.A. cofounders Bill W.
and Dr. Bob began developing over the summer of 1935 in Akron, Ohio. Dr. Bob
stated about this time period in 1935:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
early A.A. days, . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At
that point, our stories didn’t amount to anything to speak of. When we [Bill W.
and Dr. Bob—“the first two”] started in on Bill D. [“AA Number Three”], we had
no Twelve Steps, either; we had no Traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
we were convinced that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the answer to our
problems was in the Good Book</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[From
the transcript of Dr. Bob’s last major talk given at Detroit, Michigan, in
December 1949, and quoted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major
Talks</i> (A.A. pamphlet # P-53), 13; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And about this same time period, Dr. Bob also stated:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bill
[W.] came to live at our house and stayed for about three months. There was
hardly a night that we didn’t sit up until two or three o’clock, talking. It
would be hard for me to conceive that, during these nightly discussions around
our kitchen table, nothing was said that influenced the writing of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Twelve Steps</b>. We already had <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the basic ideas</b>, though not in terse
and tangible form. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We got them</b>, as I
said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as a result of our study of the
Good Book</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,
14; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The “Dick B. A.A. History and Christian Recovery Reference Set”
will help you understand the historical significance and modern application of
statements such as these by A.A. cofounder and primary author of the Big Book,
Bill W.:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
this time I [Bill W.] had refuse to budge on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">these steps</b>. I would not change a word of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original draft, in which</b>, you will remember, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I had consistently used the word “God,” </b>.
. . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 166;
bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.
. . [W]e [Bill W., Hank P., Fitz, and A.A.’s first secretary, Ruth Hock—a
non-alcoholic] finally began to talk about the possibility of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">compromise</b>. Who first suggested <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the</b> actual <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">compromise words</b> I do not know, . . . In Step Two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we decided to describe God as</b> a “Power
greater than ourselves.” In Steps Three and Eleven <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we inserted the words</b> “God <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>.</b>” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Such were <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK10"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK9"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK10;">the final concessions to those of little or no
faith</span></a>; this was <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK11">the great contribution of our
atheists and agnostics</a></span></b><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK11;"></span><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 167;
italics in original; bolding added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the quest for carrying an accurate, effective message to
those who still suffer, the books by Dick B. in this reference set will help
you see and be able to explain simply to newcomers vitally-important points
such as the differences between the original, highly-effective, early Akron
A.A. program, and what Bill W. called:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.
. . the new version of the program, now the “Twelve Steps.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 162]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For example, in the seven-point summary of the “old-school”
Akron A.A. program as it looked in late February 1938 which Frank Amos included
in a report he prepared for John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the second point of the
seven read:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“2.
He must surrender himself absolutely to God, realizing that in himself there is
no hope.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>, 131]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Not to “a Power greater than ourselves.” Not to God “as we
understood Him.” And not to “a higher Power” (as the phrase appeared on page 55
of the first printing of the first edition of the Big Book in the last sentence
of chapter three, “More about Alcoholism.”) No, in the highly-successful,
original Akron A.A, program, the word was “God.”—just as was the case in Bill
W.’s “original draft” of the Twelve Steps, before “the final concessions [were
made] to those of little or no faith.” The Being referred to by Bill W. and Dr.
Bob in A.A.’s earliest days—before “the great contribution of our atheists and
agnostics”—was the “Creator,” a word used 12 times on pages 1-164 of the
current (4<sup>th</sup>) edition of the Big Book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ever wondered about the “novel idea” Bill W. seemed to put in
the mouth of his old Burr and Burton Seminary schoolmate and “sponsor” Ebby T.:
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why don’t you choose your own conception
of God?</i>” [Big Book, 1<sup>st</sup> ed., 21-22; 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 12]. The
“Dick B. A.A. History and Christian Reference Set” will give you a perspective
for understanding:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
four paragraphs in which that question occurs—beginning with the words “Despite
the living example of my friend . . .” and ending with the words “Of course I
would!” (Big Book, 1<sup>st</sup> ed., 21-22; 4<sup>th</sup> ed., 12)—did not
appear in what primary author Bill W. called “a prepublication copy of the text
and some of the stories” (better known as “the Multilith Edition” and “the
Original Manuscript.”). This fact may be verified easily by a quick visit to <a href="http://www.silkworth.net/">www.Silkworth.net</a> where </span><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a transcript of the
“Original Manuscript” is available for viewing. (See: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/znw4y"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">http://mcaf.ee/znw4y</span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">; accessed 1/13/2015.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
odious question, “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?” was part of
four paragraphs written in by hand and included at the last moment in the
document Bill W. called “the printer’s copy of the book.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 169). The first words of the
four-paragraph insertion (i.e., “Despite the living example of my friend . .
.”) begin on the back of the Title Page and end with an abbreviated version of
the words “Of course I would!” on the front side of a piece of paper inserted between
the typed Title Page and the typed Foreword. In this case, another “committee
of four” was at work. This time, the “committee” was composed of Bill W., Hank
P., Ruth Hock, and Dorothy S. (then-wife of Dr. Bob’s sponsee Clarence S.).
[See: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book That Started It All: The
Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(Center City, Minn.:
Hazelden, 2010), 23-27, 38. (Dick B. and Ken B. contributed some of the
historical material included in this book.)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So, would you like to learn more about “A First Century
Christian Fellowship” (as the group was named when it was founded by Lutheran
minister Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman in the autumn of 1922, and as it was still
also known during the time in which Bill W. and Dr. Bob were members of it)?
Would you like to know why John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and several associates likened
early A.A.—particularly in Akron—to First Century Christianity? Would you like
to learn the story of Bill W.’s inviting Episcopal minister Rev. Sam Shoemaker
to write the 12 Steps?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-77934165880775078712015-01-08T13:47:00.000-08:002015-01-08T13:47:02.904-08:00A.A. Cofounder Bill W.’s 1943 Affirmation of His Born Again Status: His Inscription “Yours in Christ”
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">A.A. Cofounder Bill W.’s
1943 Affirmation of His Born Again Status:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">His Inscription
“Yours in Christ” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Dick B., with Ken B.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
© 2014, 2015 Anonymous. All rights reserved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Born again</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bill
Wilson said in his autobiography: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For sure, I’d
been born again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Bill W., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My First 40 Years </i>(Center City, Minn.:
Hazelden, 2000), 147. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more
examples of this language, see Dick B., <i>The Conversion of Bill W., </i>110 (</span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/theconversionofbillw.shtml"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.dickb.com/theconversionofbillw.shtml</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
Ebby’s visit to Bill prior to Bill’s decision for Christ at Calvary Mission,
Bill Wilson wrote of Ebby:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The man was
transformed; there was no denying he had been reborn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[“Bill Wilson’s
Original Manuscript,” see lines 935-942, an unpublished manuscript located at
Bill and Lois Wilson’s home called “Stepping Stones” in New York. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more on
this, see, for example: Dick B., <i>The Conversion of Bill W., xv, </i>47. 49]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
Bill Wilson made his own decision for Christ at the rail at Calvary Mission in
New York about December 7, 1934, he told his wife Lois about his experience
that evening. Speaking of Bill’s experience at Calvary Mission in a speech she
gave in Texas, Lois stated:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And he [Bill W.]
went up, and really, in very great sincerity, did hand over his life to Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[“Lois
Remembers: Searcy, Ebby, Bill & Early Days.” Recorded in Dallas, Texas,
June 29, 1973, Moore, OK: Sooner Cassette, Side 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more on
this, see, for example: Dick B. <i>The Conversion of Bill W., </i>61]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lois
Wilson wrote in her autobiography:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although my joy
and faith in his rebirth continued, I missed his companionship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[(L.B.W.), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lois Remembers: Memoirs of the Co-founder of
Al-Anon and Wife of the Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(New York:
Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., 1979), 98.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more on
this, see, for example: Dick B., <i>The Conversion of Bill W., </i>114]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Even
author Mel B., the man who dubs himself a casual historian, concluded:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His [Bill W.’s] was
clearly a kind of “born again” experience, . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Mel B., <i>New
Wine: The Spiritual Roots of the Twelve Step Miracle </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 1991)<i>, </i></span>88]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
John 3:7 (KJV), Jesus said to Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Marvel not that
I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
1 Peter 1:23 (KJV), the Apostle Peter wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In Christ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
January 13, 1943, Bill Wilson signed his full name “Bill Wilson” in an
inscription in a first edition Big Book he gave to his friend, Dr. Jesse M.
Bader. A photo of the inscription was sent to me (Dick B.) by Ken R. I have it
in my archives and have shown it at A.A. History conferences. You may see a
picture of the page in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i> on which Bill Wilson wrote the inscription including “Yours in
Christ” to Dr. Bader, as published by PBA Galleries in conjunction with the
auction of this book [Sale 389: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#389) 09/25/2008
1:00 PM PDT], here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://mcaf.ee/ql4yt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://mcaf.ee/ql4yt</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [accessed
1/2/2015]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ken
R. also posted the following message on the web:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
“I just purchased a First Edition, Third printing Big Book inscribed on the
front free endpaper, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“To my friend
Dr. Jesse M. Bader,<br />
Yours in
Christ, Bill Wilson, 1/13/43.”<br />
<br />
Jesse Moren Bader (1886-1963) was a noted evangelist, ecumenist and global
leader. He<br />
founded the global, ecumenical, World Communion Sunday which was launched on
October 6, 1940 and continues on the first Sunday in October each year.<br />
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This is the first time I've ever seen Bill W. inscribe anything "Yours in
Christ" and it's also notable that he signed his full name. He apparently
stopped signing his full last name about the time the Traditions were coming
out.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Ken R.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
here is the detailed information PBA Galleries provided about this particular
copy of the first edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i> in conjunction with the auction:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">PBA Galleries (Auctioneers
& Appraisers)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sale 389: Rare
Books & Manuscripts (#389) 09/25/2008<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1:00 PM PDT CLOSED!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lot 3 of 145:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Alcoholics
Anonymous: The Story of How More Than Six Thousand Men and Women Have Recovered
from Alcoholism<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Author:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[Wilson, William (Bill W.)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Date:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1942<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Description:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>viii, [2], 400 pp. 9x6, original blue
cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original jacket. First Edition, Third printing.
Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;">"To my friend Dr.
Jesse M. Bader, Yours in Christ, Bill Wilson, 1/13/43."</span></a> Jesse
Moren Bader (1886-1963) was a noted evangelist, ecumenist and global leader. He
founded the global, ecumenical, World Communion Sunday which was launched on
October 6, 1940 and continues on the first Sunday in October each year. There
were 5000 copies of this third printing published in June, 1942.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jacket chipped
and worn, lacking top 2½" of spine strip and some of adjacent front panel,
repairs on verso; volume spine head bumped, shelf wear, darkening along front
endpaper gutter, else very good in good jacket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some Examples of
the Phrase “in Christ” in the King James Version of the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV), the Apostle Paul wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore <b>if
any man <i>be</i> in Christ, he is a new creature</b>: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. [emphasis added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
Romans 8:1 (KJV), the Apostle Paul wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There <i>is</i>
therefore <b>no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,</b> who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [emphasis added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here
are a couple of other examples of this phrase:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2 Corinthians
2:17 (KJV): “in the sight of God <b>speak we in Christ</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">” [emphasis added]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Peter 5:14 (KJV):
“Greet <i>ye</i> one another with a kiss of charity. <b>Peace <i>be</i> with
you all that are in Christ Jesus.</b> Amen” [emphasis added]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Appendix</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Additional Examples of Verses in the
King James Version<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in Which the Phrase “In Christ” Occurs</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rom
16:7: Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are
of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Cor
1:2: Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in
Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the
name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1
Cor 1:30: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1
Cor 3:1: And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but
as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2
Cor 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gal
1:22: And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eph
1:1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which
are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Phil
1:1: Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in
Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Phil
4:21: Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Col
1:2: To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace
be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1
Thess 2:14: For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in
Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own
countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1
Thess 4:16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1
Pet 5:14: Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all
that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Gloria Deo<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-86806663847449787492015-01-07T20:04:00.000-08:002015-01-07T20:04:09.282-08:00Some of the Several Times Bill W. and his friend Dr. Bob Mentioned Jesus Christ in A.A. General Service Conference-Approved Publications
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Some of the Several Times Bill W. and his friend Dr.
Bob Mentioned Jesus Christ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in A.A. General Service Conference-Approved
Publications</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Dick B.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">© 2015 Anonymous. All rights reserved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
found on page 114 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As Bill Sees It: The
A.A. Way of Life . . . Selected Writings of A.A.’s Co-Founder </i>(New York:
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1967), A.A. cofounder Bill W. stated
in a letter he wrote in 1940:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At first, the
remedy for my personal difficulties seemed so obvious that I could not imagine
any alcoholic turning the proposition down were it properly presented to him.
Believing so firmly that Christ can do anything. I had the unconscious conceit
to suppose that He would do everything through me—right then and in the manner
I chose. I had to admit that not a soul had surely laid hold of the Master—not
excepting myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
third edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(“the
Big Book”), published in 1976, contains a personal story on pages 210-21 titled
“He Thought He Could Drink Like a Gentleman.” It is the story of attorney Abby
G., in whose house in Cleveland, Ohio, the first meeting of A.A.’s third group
in the world was held on May 11, 1939. On pages 216-17 of his personal story,
Abby states:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One evening I
had gone out after dinner to take on a couple of double-headers and stayed a
little later than usual, and when I came home Clarence [S.—founder of the first
A.A. group in Cleveland] was sitting on the davenport with Bill W. I do not
recollect the specific conversation that went on but I believe I did challenge Bill
to tell me something about A.A. and I do recall one other thing: I wanted to
know what this was that worked so many wonders, and hanging over the mantel was
a picture of Gethsemane and Bill [W.] pointed to it and said, “There it is,” .
. .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Jesus’s
praying in the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples, as recorded in Matt 26:36-46
and Mark 14:32-42, is a scene that has been portrayed by numerous painters
through the centuries. Abby G.’s personal story was not included in the fourth
edition of the Big Book published in 2001.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A.A. General Service Conference-approved book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Pass It On’ </i>(New York, N.Y.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services,
Inc., 1984) states the following about Bill W. on page 171:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Because Bill’s
reasons [for his 1937 departure from the Oxford Group] were often
misunderstood, he later wrote letters and articles to explain the split. One of
his most extensive statements about the situation was made in a letter dated
October 30, 1940, to a member in Richmond, Virginia:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I am always
glad to say privately that some of the Oxford Group presentation and emphasis
upon the Christian message saved my life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
Bill W.’s last major talk—given on October 11, 1969, at the New York Hilton
hotel, and of which an edited transcript was reproduced on pages 27-36 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous:
Biographical Sketches Their Last Major Talks </i>(New York, NY: Alcoholics
Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1972, 1975)—Bill related:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finally, there
was some kind of hearing on it among the self-appointed elders. I remember how
perfectly Bob put it to them. He reminded us that most of us were practicing
Christians. Then he asked: “What would the Master have thought? Would He have
kept this man away?” He had them cold!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Gloria Deo<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460693601625928566.post-21104807376341806902015-01-04T13:51:00.000-08:002015-01-04T13:51:15.460-08:00The Guide for Beginners’ Recovery from Alcoholism and Addiction Today by Applying "Old-School" Akron A.A. in Today’s Recovery Scene<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Guide for Beginners’ Recovery from Alcoholism
and Addiction Today<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Applying "Old-School" Akron A.A. in Today’s
Recovery Scene</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summary
of the Stages of Healing Techniques, Beginning with the Apostles, and How They
Lived Their Lives—including praying, witnessing, converting others, healing,
fellowshipping in homes and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>temple, and
breaking bread together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
Recovery “Christian techniques” Began to Be Employed in the Manner of First
Century Christian Fellowships <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Turning by Christian Groups in the 1850’s to Ministering to the “Unworthy”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christian Entities That Led the Way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Revivals in the Upbringing of A.A.’s Co-founders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[Especially, the “Great Awakening” of
1875 in St. Johnsbury]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Bill W.’s and Dr. Bob’s Grandparents and Parents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sunday School, Sermons, Reading of Scripture, Hymns, Prayer Meetings, the Young
Men’s Christian Association, and the United Society of Christian Endeavor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Congregational Domination of Academies Attended by Dr. Bob, Bill W., and Ebby
Thacher; and the Christian Practices Required of Students<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Spiral Downward (glass in hand) by Dr. Bob and by Bill W. as They Departed for
College<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Involved in Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cofounder Bill W. became born again at Calvary Mission in New York around December
7, 1934, after his old Burr and Burton Seminary schoolmate, Ebby T., shared the
message of “A First Century Christian Fellowship” (also known as “the Oxford
Group”) with him in late November 1934. Shortly thereafter, Bill was cured of
his alcoholism in his hospital room at Towns Hospital around December 14, 1934,
when he cried out to God for help, had an experience in which his hospital room
“blazed with an indescribably white light,” and had the “blazing thought”: “Bill,
you are a free man. This is the God of the Scriptures.” Bill never again
doubted the existence of God, and he never drank again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A.A. Number Two, Dr. Bob. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">About March or
April 1935, Henrietta Seiberling arranged a meeting of participants in the
Oxford Group at the home of T. Henry and Clarace Williams in Akron for the
purpose of seeing future A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob delivered from his alcoholism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Dr. Bob (the alcoholic) confessed at
that meeting that he was “a secret drinker,” and at his request, he joined the
small group of friends in prayer for his deliverance from alcoholism on their
knees on a rug on the floor of the Williams’s home. Shortly after that prayer,
on May 11, 1935, Henrietta Seiberling received a seemingly-miraculous phone
call from Bill W., a stranger from New York who was on a business trip in Akron,
seeking a drunk to work with. The next day, May 12, 1935 (Mother’s Day), she
introduced Dr. Bob and Bill W. to each other at her home; and, after a six hour
talk, the two men were bound to the principle of serving others. But Dr. Bob
had yet to be cured. After beginning to work with Bill W. in helping other
alcoholics in May and early June, Dr. Bob went on a bender on the way to and at
the American Medical Association convention at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Upon
his return to Ohio from the A.M.A. convention, Dr. Bob undertook a scheduled
surgery. Bill and Bob’s family were concerned that Bob was too shaky to
operate. But at four o’clock in the morning on the day of the operation, Dr. Bob
told Bill: “I have placed both operation and myself in God’s hands.” Bill W.
gave Dr. Bob a bottle of beer that morning before the operation. Dr. went ahead
with the surgery that day, and it was a success. That bottle of beer--which
Bill W. and Dr. Bob both said Dr. Bob had on June 10, 1935--was Dr. Bob’s last
drink. He was cured of alcoholism and never drank again for the rest of his
life. “. . . [I]t is generally agreed that Alcoholics Anonymous began there, in
Akron, on that date: June 10, 1935.” [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR.
BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>, 75]. (The actual date of Dr. Bob’s last drink,
however, may have been closer to June 17, as the A.M.A. convention in Atlantic
City was held from June 10-14 that year.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1935, Akron attorney Bill D. checked into Akron City Hospital, following seven
earlier hospital stays for alcoholism within the preceding six months. A.A.
cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob visited with Bill D. in the hospital and
persuaded him to admit to his seemingly-hopeless alcoholism. Bill D. got on his
knees and gave his life to God. He also promised to help others get well. And he
walked out of the hospital a free man. He never drank again. Bill W. later announced
that July 4, 1935—the date on which Bill D. was released from the hospital—marked
the founding of the first Alcoholics Anonymous group in the world, “Akron
Number One.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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three men had renounced liquor for good. They had believed in God and were
students of the Bible. They were Christians. And in their darkest hours, they
sought God’s help for their ascent from the abyss and received it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The First Program of Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A.A. pioneers in Akron soon developed an effective recovery program for working
with alcoholics. An agent of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., named Frank Amos went to
Akron in late February 1938 to investigate the early Akron A.A. program on
behalf of Mr. Rockefeller. Based on Amos’s investigation, he prepared a report
for Mr. Rockefeller. Parts of that report were published in the A.A. General
Service Conference-approved book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB
and the Good Oldtimers</i>, including a seven-point summary of the Akron
program found on page 131. Both Amos’s seven-point summary of the early Akron
A.A. program as of February 1938, and the 16 practices the pioneers used to implement
that seven-point program, are included in our book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stick with the Winners! How to Conduct More Effective 12-Step Recovery
Meetings Using Conference-Approved Literature: A Dick B. Guide for Christian
Leaders and Workers in the Recovery Arena</i> (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research
Publications, Inc., 2012), by Dick B. and Ken B. The documentation for Amos’s
seven-point summary of the early Akron program and for the 16 practices of the
early Akron AAs is set forth on pages 27-38.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Remarkable Cleveland Program Offshoot and Its
Top Success <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are several reliable summaries of the Cleveland application of “old-school”
A.A., including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Three
Clarence Snyder Sponsee Old-timers and Their Wives, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our A.A. Legacy to the Faith Community: A Twelve-Step Guide for Those
Who Want to Believe</i>, compiled and edited by Dick B.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(Winter Park, FL: Came to Believe Publications, 2005). The three
author-couples were sponsored by Clarence, sponsored many others, put on
retreats organized by Clarence, and were at his side for many years until his
death. And, after Clarence died, they later devoted almost a year to
interviews, phone calls, correspondence, and manuscript work with Dick B. in
order to develop this guide. It is widely used by AAs, at the retreats, and by
hundreds who use it as a guide to A.A. and how to take its 12 Steps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dick
B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That Amazing Grace: The Role of
Clarence and Grace S. in Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(Kihei, HI: Paradise Research
Publications, Inc., 1996). Dick B. spoke at many retreats with Grace S. He and
his son Ken B. interviewed Grace extensively, and reviewed such books, papers,
and records owned by Clarence as Grace made available when Dick and Ken spent a
week with Grace at a home in Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mitchell
K., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How It Worked: The Story of Clarence
H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland </i>(1991).
Mitchell was sponsored by Clarence, gained possession of most of Clarence’s
papers, and wrote the authoritative biography of Clarence and his founding of
A.A.’s third group in the world in Cleveland on May 11, 1939.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There were some principal points that
Grace S. and Mitchell K. made clear to me concerning the A.A. fellowship
Clarence S. founded in Cleveland. For example, that Clarence brought with him
to Cleveland from Akron important parts of A.A. history, including: the
requirement of belief in God; study of the Bible; visiting newcomers,
particularly in the hospital; and participating in a great deal of
fellowship—including sports, choir, braking bread, dances, and group prayer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Clarence “. . . concluded that, by keeping
most of the ‘old program,’ including the Four Absolutes and the Bible,
ninety-three percent of those surveyed [two years after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous </i>(“the Big Book”) was published in April 1939] had
maintained uninterrupted sobriety.” [Mitchell K.’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How It Worked</i>, 108]. Here is what Bill W. wrote as to what
Cleveland had done with “most of the ‘old program,’ including the Four
Absolutes and the Bible”:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We old-timers in New York and Akron had
regarded this fantastic phenomenon with deep misgivings. Had it not taken us
four whole years, littered with countless failures, to produce even a hundred
good recoveries? Yet here in Cleveland we now saw about twenty members, not
very experienced themselves, suddenly confronted by hundreds of newcomers as a
result of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plain Dealer</i> articles.
How could they possibly manage? We did not know. But a year later<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> we did</i> know for by then Cleveland had
about thirty groups and several hundred members. . . . Yes, Cleveland’s results
were of the best. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous
Comes of Age: A Brief History of A.A.</i>, 21-22]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bill W.’s New Book,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and Its “New
Version of the Program, now the ‘Twelve Steps’”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Right
after Bill W. and Dr. Bob counted the noses of the recoveries to date in
November 1937, “Bill began to think of setting up a chain of profit-making
hospitals, of raising money, of subsidizing missionaries, and of writing a book
of experiences that would carry the message of recovery to other cities and
other countries.” [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers, </i>123]. Dr. Bob backed up Bill during a meeting of 18 A.A. members
in Akron, and the group approved Bill’s whole package of ideas by a slim,
11-to-9 vote. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers</i>, 123-24]. With that approval in hand, Bill returned to New York;
and Bill began writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous </i>in May 1938. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lois
Remembers</i>, 111] But he began writing untethered as to its contents. Dr. Bob
had merely commented: “Keep it simple!” Bill, however, came up with a whole “new
version of the program, now the ‘Twelve Steps.’” [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 162] Soon after Bill wrote the
Twelve Steps to be included in “the famous Chapter 5,” it was decided that
“[t]here would have to be a story or case history section. We would have to
produce evidence in the form of living proof, written testimonials of our membership
itself.” [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of
Age</i>, 164]. By the end of January 1939, 18 stories from members of the Akron
group and 10 stories from the New York group had been completed, as well as 11
initial chapters. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous
Comes of Age</i>, 164]. 400 copies of 20 of those personal stories, together
with the 11 initial chapters, were then published as “the mimeograph issue
‘Alcoholics Anonymous,’” [better known as “the Multilith Edition” or “the
Original Manuscript”], and it was sent out far and wide for comment. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 165].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
there was dissension. For example, Fitz M., the Episcopal minister’s son and Bill
W.’s second success (after Hank P.) to recover at Towns Hospital, constantly
traveled to reinforce the position that the book ought to be Christian in the
doctrinal sense of the word and should say so. Fitz favored using Biblical
terms and expressions to make this clear. But the atheists and agnostics, said
Bill W., were still to make a tremendously important contribution. The
protesters, led by Bill W.’s friend and business partner Henry P., were for
deleting the word “God” from the book entirely. Henry had come to believe in
some sort of “universal power.” He wanted a psychological book. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>,
162-64].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was still argument about the Twelve Steps. Bill wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All this time I
had refused to budge on these steps. I would not change a word of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original draft, in which I had
consistently used the word “God,”</b> and in one place the expression “on our
knees” was used. Praying to God on one’s knees was still a big affront to
Henry. He argued, he begged, he threatened. . . . He was positive we would
scare off alcoholics by the thousands when they read those Twelve Steps. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>,
166-67; emphasis added].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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detour was fashioned. Bill pointed out that the steps could be made suggestive
only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
the totally-compromised draft of the first edition manuscript was chopped up by
a committee of four—Bill W., Hank P., Fitz, and the secretary, Ruth Hock. And
then an endless number of parties took a crack at the working manuscript (known
as “the Multilith Edition” and “the Original Manuscript) when 400 copies of
that version were circulated “to everyone we could think of who might be
concerned with the problem of alcoholism.” Then came “the printer’s manuscript”
version containing “accepted” changes, “rejected” changes, the marginalia, and
the “proof sheet” changes. Later editors insisted that “the printer’s
manuscript” was badly mangled. But a bidder at an auction at Sotheby’s paid
almost a million dollars for “the printer’s manuscript” in 2007. That
“printer’s manuscript” version of the first edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous </i>is now available for public viewing in the
form of high-resolution scans of each of its pages included in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book That Started It All: The Original
Working Manuscript of “Alcoholics Anonymous” </i>(Center City, MN: Hazelden,
2010).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And,
though there are suspect additions, and many hand-written opinions and
suggestions, one can look at the Hazelden publication and see the manuscript
that contained the first edition of the Big Book, published by Works Publishing
Company in New York in April 1939.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bill
W.’s “new version of the program, now the ‘Twelve Steps,” contains a huge and
obvious compromise when it is compared to the original, highly-successful
“old-school” Akron A.A. program Bill and Dr. Bob began developing together over
the summer of 1935. [See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 166-67]. And regardless of how one views that great
compromise, it resulted in major changes being made to Bill W.’s original draft
of the Twelve Steps in which Bill himself said he had consistently used the
word “God.” Changes such as describing God as a “Power greater than ourselves” in
Step Two and inserting the modifying phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” following the word “God” in Steps Three and
Eleven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So
the real “new version of the program” and its Twelve Steps were compromised in
tenor and purpose. In Bill’s language:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Such were the
final concessions to those of little or no faith; . . . so that all who suffer
might pass through, regardless of their belief or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lack of belief</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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. [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Present
Program Has Left God in the Dust<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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God a “power?” Could He merely be described as a “Power greater than ourselves?”
Was He “a light bulb” or “the Big Dipper” as some have frequently said? Could
you—with the stroke of a pen—change God into someone or something, anyone or anything,
and expect that/it to heal him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jim
H., probably the A.A. with the most sobriety when he died, once said to me:
“Dick, if you take God out of A.A., you have nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a newcomer hear that he should pray to nothing for help? That he need believe
in nothing for rescue? That A.A. is just about “not-god-ness”? That he can
select a rock, a chair, a door knob, a table, or some undefined “higher power”
for healing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
think the newcomer needs to hear the whole story and not just about rocks and
tables, higher powers, light bulbs, or “nothing at all.” For a newcomer to be
told or to expect that “nothing at all” is going to cure them of alcoholism is,
of course, absurd. Or should the newcomer hear the rest of the story and
believe or affirm what his “basic text” (i.e., the Big Book) claims: that the
Creator of the heavens and the earth has more power than any product of man’s
mind or hands? More than enough power (and love and forgiveness) to cure that
newcomer of their alcoholism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p><em>Gloria Deo</em></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0