Part Five: Transmission
of the Original Lessons
The Learners:
i.
Dr. Bob – a Christian
ii.
Bill W. – a Christian
iii.
Ebby Thacher – a Christian
iv.
Bertha Bamford—a Christian and Bill’s
high school love
v.
Rowland Hazard – a Christian who
followed Jung’s advice; and taught Ebby ideas from the Bible, Christianity, and
prayer, as well as the Oxford Group.
vi.
Shep Cornell – a Christian who taught
Ebby and Bill
vii.
Cebra Graves – a Christian who taught
Ebby
The
Teachers and the Transmitters
viii.
Parents, grandparents, and the Bible
ix.
Church and Sunday school
x.
Seminaries and academies
1. Required
church
2. Required Bible courses
3. Required
daily chapel (Scripture reading, sermons, hymns, prayers)
4. YMCA
activities
xi.
Evangelists – Moody, Sankey, Folger,
Meyer
xii.
The Young Men’s Christian Association
xiii.
The Young People’s Society of Christian
Endeavor
xiv.
Professor William James – varieties of
religious experiences
xv.
Rev. Sam Shoemaker – Must “find God”
through vital religious experience and need Jesus Christ
xvi.
Dr. William D. Silkworth – Jesus Christ
could cure
b.
What were they learning
i.
Belief in God
ii.
Salvation (John 14:6; Rom 10:9-10; Acts
4:12; Rom 15:3-8);
iii.
The word of God;
iv.
Creeds and confessions;
v.
(From) sermons;
vi.
Group and individual prayers
vii.
Hymns
viii.
(From) revivals
ix.
(From) Temperance meetings
x.
(From) the YMCA meetings in the churches
c.
Laboratories
i.
The “Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury;
ii.
The Young Men’s Christian Association
iii.
Rescue missions
iv.
The Salvation Army
v.
The Young People’s Society of Christian
Endeavor
d.
Bill W.’s special emphasis
i.
A vital religious experience [Bill cried
out to God; his hospital room blazed with an indescribably white light, and he
experienced the presence of god—“the God of the Scriptures”]
ii.
“For sure I’d been born again”
e.
The Bible (The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous)—How the first three got
sober
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