tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90613862024-03-04T23:08:17.323-10:00Dick B.: The Real "Power" Behind Alcoholics AnonymousThe Power of Almighty God -- 2011Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.comBlogger1808125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-71532172655472936972018-06-10T17:34:00.003-10:002018-06-10T17:36:15.617-10:00Bonnie Burke's New Title: "My Journey Toward Gratitude: The Vision and Renewal of the Bill W. House"<br />
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Before he passed away, Bonnie's former husband--Albert
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(The inn had been known previously as "The Wilson
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Ozzie began renovating it in 1987; reopened it as “The
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Bonnie worked alongside her husband Ozzie for many years in
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She then took over as the Managing Director of The Wilson
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Bonnie told me that she wrote "this
memoir"--"My Journey Toward Gratitude: The Vision and Renewal of the
Bill W. House"--"to preserve Ozzie’s vision and document the early
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Bonnie's book may be ordered from:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. "Northshire (Bookstore) Manchester in Manchester
Center, VT [ph. 802.362.2200; ph. (toll free) 800.437.3700];<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. The Wilson House, East Dorset, VT; and<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. If you know her, from Bonnie directly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have ordered my copy. What are you waiting for?<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Photo credit: The Wilson House of East Dorset (on
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Get “the rest of the story” at “Dick B. on Recovery" on
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dickbonrecovery/"><span style="color: white;">https://www.instagram.com/dickbonrecovery/</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken<o:p></o:p></div>
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Email: DickB@DickB.com<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-35652740617593514242017-06-27T17:56:00.000-10:002017-06-27T17:56:25.348-10:00“The Dick B. Memorial Vermont A.A. History Research Tour, July 17-21, 2017”: Come and/or Help Support!<br />
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<b>“The Dick B. Memorial Vermont A.A. History Research Tour,
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Want to: <o:p></o:p></div>
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substantially in your understanding of the roles God, His Son Jesus Christ, and
the Bible played in early A.A.’s astonishing success with “seemingly-hopeless,”
“medically-incurable” alcoholics who thoroughly followed the original, early
A.A. path?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->(b)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Become
much more effective as a Christian leader or worker in today’s recovery arena
in carrying the message to those who still suffer?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What’s in it for you</b>
if you become a Participant in and/or a Sponsor of “The Dick B. Memorial
Vermont A.A. History Research Tour, July 17-21, 2017?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. <b>For Participants</b>:
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I will be making presentations each evening about A.A.
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a. His family and
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b. His upbringing
in East Dorset before the family moved to Rutland around March/April 1903;<o:p></o:p></div>
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c. His upbringing
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d. His upbringing
by his maternal grandparents after Bill's mother brought him and his sister
Dorothy back from Rutland around 1905 or early-to-middle 1906.; and<o:p></o:p></div>
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e. His Christian
upbringing at Burr and Burton Seminary.<o:p></o:p></div>
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f. I will also take
questions about those five topics of early A.A, history, and about other topics
(such as Dr. Bob's Christian upbringing in St. Johnsbury, Vermont; the trail of
Christianity leading to Bill's meeting with Ebby and Bill's early work in New
York before meeting Dr. Bob in Akron; Bill and Bob's time in Akron over the
summer of 1935; the development of early A.A. in Akron and New York from the
fall of 1935 until the Big Book was published; and the earliest A.A. work in
Cleveland).<o:p></o:p></div>
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g. During the
daytime, I will offer to those who would like to participate the opportunity to
do "hands-on" research with me in East Dorset, Manchester (where Burr
and Burton Seminary is located), and (probably) Rutland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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h. I will also be
making audio and/or video recordings of my presentations and of my research (to
the extent practical), if one or more people are available with the interest,
equipment, and skills to make recordings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I will also be making available to Participants
(and to Tour Sponsors) additional materials, such as the book my dad and I
co-authored around the time we did our A.A. history research tour in Vermont in
September 2012: <i>Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the
Green Mountain Men of Vermont: The Roots of Early A.A.'s Original Program</i>
by Dick B. and Ken B. This is <b>a 121-page
book with 369 footnotes</b> reflecting some of what we learned from our
research about Vermont after my dad wrote <i>The
Conversion of Bill W.</i> in 2006 and after we co-wrote <i>Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous</i> in 2008.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>To register as a
Participant</b>, please send me an email message at <a href="mailto:DickB@DickB.com">DickB@DickB.com</a> with your name, mailing
address, and cell phone number; and I will get you the details about the
process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. <b>For Tour Sponsors
and Supporters of My Efforts to Carry on Dick B.’s Legacy</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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will receive copies of materials I circulate as part of presentations I make
during “The Dick B. Memorial Vermont A.A. History Research Tour, July 17-21,
2017”— written (and audio and/or video, if available).<o:p></o:p></div>
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will receive additional materials, such as the book my dad and I co-authored
around the time we did our A.A. history research tour in Vermont in September
2012: <i>Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the Green
Mountain Men of Vermont: The Roots of Early A.A.'s Original Program</i> by Dick
B. and Ken B. This is <b>a 121-page book
with 369 footnotes</b> reflecting some of what we learned from our research
about Vermont after my dad wrote <i>The
Conversion of Bill W.</i> in 2006 and after we co-wrote <i>Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous</i> in 2008.<o:p></o:p></div>
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would also be glad to make myself available by phone call and/or Skype for
questions you may have about my dad’s (and my) 25+ years of research on A.A.
history and the Christian Recovery Movement, and about how to apply effectively
that knowledge in today’s recovery arena.<o:p></o:p></div>
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also be glad to keep you informed via webpage(s), blog post(s), Facebook
post(s), Instagram post(s), and other means—including, hopefully soon, webinars—of
the latest work I am doing in the A.A. history field and in the practical
application of A.A. history knowledge in today’s recovery scene.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I'm looking to raise between $5,000.00 and $10,000.00 from
folks who have been blessed with my dad's and my 25 years of research on the
roles God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in early A.A.'s
astonishing success with "seemingly-hopeless," "medically-incurable"
alcoholics who thoroughly followed the early A.A. path.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Specifically, I'm
looking for folks who would like to contribute $500.00 (or larger) chunks</b>
to sponsor "The Dick B. Memorial Vermont A.A. History Research Tour, July
17-21, 2017" and to help me carry on my dad's work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>To become a Tour
Sponsor and/or help support my ongoing work</b>, please send me an email
message at <a href="mailto:DickB@DickB.com">DickB@DickB.com</a> with your name,
mailing address, and cell phone number. I’ll then send you back details about where
and how to make a sponsorship donation, and about how your donation might be
made tax-deductible, if that would be of help.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hope you will join me in person (as a Participant) and/or
"in spirit" (as a Sponsor).<o:p></o:p></div>
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In GOD's love,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken<o:p></o:p></div>
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Skype: Episcopos007<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-8676876387182095702017-06-07T17:21:00.001-10:002017-06-07T17:21:41.038-10:00The Dick B. Memorial Vermont A.A. History Research Tour, July 17-21, 2017.<br />
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I’m planning to be in Vermont from about Thursday, July 13,
through about Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Want to join me from July 17-21 for a guided
research tour of the area of Vermont in which A.A. cofounder Bill W. was born
and raised—i.e., East Dorset, Rutland, and Manchester?<o:p></o:p></div>
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My dad (pen name: “Dick B.”) had 45 titles on A.A. and its
history published by the time he passed away on September 12, 2015. And he left
me five more books that just needed final editing by me. Those 50 titles were
the fruits of more than 29 years of continuous sobriety in A.A. and of more
than 25 years of research—beginning in early 1990—on the biblical origins of
Alcoholics Anonymous. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Albert (“Ozzie”) Lepper—who in 1987 purchased the
deteriorating hotel in which A.A. cofounder William Griffith Wilson (“Bill W.”)
was born on November 26, 1895; reopened it as a functioning hotel in 1988 under
the name of “The Wilson House”; and completed a major physical rehabilitation
of the hotel in 1994 which he had begun in 1987—invited my dad to present
weekend seminars on A.A. history at The Wilson House for eight years in a row
during the 1990s. And what you won’t hear anywhere else is that Ozzie told me
dad that he was refurbishing The Griffith (House) Library so that it could
house my dad’s library. (The first installment of my dad’s donation was 23,900
items, and those items and many others are now housed at The Griffith Library.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2006--after reviewing Bill W.’s “autobiography” titled “My
First 40 Years”; after studying the available biographies of Bill [e.g., Thomsen
(1975), Hartigan (2000), Raphael (2000), Mel B. (2000), White (2003), Cheever
(2004), Lobdell (2004)]; and after much additional research—my dad wrote <i>The Conversion of Bill W.: More on the
Creator’s Role in Early A.A.</i> (I helped to format and edit that title.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2008 and again in 2012, my dad and I went through East
Dorset as part of our efforts to research the Christian upbringings of Bill W.
and Dr. Bob in Vermont. We also visited Burr and Burton Academy (formerly Burr
and Burton Seminary) in Manchester, Vermont, and spent time there interviewing
the archivist who wrote the text for the official book about the school. In
addition, we visited Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, and briefly
spoke with the assistant archivist at the school archives. We also did a
picture-taking tour of Rutland; and we continued to reach out to churches in
Rutland concern the Wilson’s church activity there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And in 2012, my dad and I had published <i>Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont: The Roots of
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And we again swung through East Dorset during our fourth
Vermont A.A. history research tour in 2013. [Our first tour was in October
2007, but that was focused exclusively in St. Johnsbury, where A.A. cofounder Robert
Holbrook Smith (“Dr. Bob”) was born and raised.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then in 2014, my dad and I videotaped a class titled “Bill
W., Dr. Bob, and the Cure of Alcoholism: The Rest of the Story” which went into
more information we had learned about Bill W. (and Dr. Bob).<o:p></o:p></div>
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And since that time, I have continued to research and write—as
did my dad until he passed away on September 12, 2015—in large part about Bill
W.’s Christian upbringing in Vermont.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1979, Ernest Kurtz had written: “Of Bill’s earlier
exposure to religion, little is known—probably because there is little to know.”
[See: Kurtz, <i>Not-God: A History of
Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, exp. ed. (Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 1979, 1991),
16.] But had Kurtz gone to East Dorset, Rutland, Manchester, or Northfield,
Vermont? <o:p></o:p></div>
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numerous times. And there are still numerous gaps in the historical record—particularly
about Bill W.’s Christian upbringing—that cry out to be filled. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Gilman and Emily Wilson live in The Wilson House in East Dorset; <o:p></o:p></div>
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and year did Gilman, Emily, and Bill live at a “nearby house” after moving out
of The Wilson House and before moving to Rutland? And what was the
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7. What more is there to learn about Bill’s four years at
Burr and Burton Seminary from September 1909 through June 1913—particularly about
his religious training there and about his related Christian activities there?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Want to join me in my continuing quest to extend my dad’s
work on the biblical origins of Alcoholics Anonymous—particularly, in this
case, relating to Bill W.’s upbringing in Vermont?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come with your questions and research suggestions, or just
come and listen. If you’d like, I’d be glad to give you suggestions as to
research you can do yourself before, during, and/or after the July research tour.
And I may do a series of articles and/or an eBook based on the trip.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The donation for
participating in the research tour is $500.00</b>. Please let me know if you’d
like to register by email at <a href="mailto:DickB@DickB.com">DickB@DickB.com</a>
or by phone at (808) 276-4945, and I’ll send you a Registration Form and/or
otherwise help you register. (And please contact me if you would like to see
about having the donation made tax deductible.) And if you cannot make it on
those dates, feel free to come before the tour dates and/or after them—while I’m
in the area—and I’ll see what I can do to make it worth your time. Finally, if
you just can’t make it while I’m in Vermont, please consider making a donation
of $500.00 to support my carrying on of my dad’s work begun in 1990.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Please note that all travel, lodging, food, and
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-51801334747861834382017-04-26T09:11:00.001-10:002017-04-26T09:12:04.147-10:00Check out the new "Dick B. on Recovery" page on Instagram!<br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dickbonrecovery/">https://www.instagram.com/dickbonrecovery/</a>Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-89707330236700442262016-12-27T15:28:00.001-10:002016-12-27T15:29:21.254-10:00Bill Wilson's 1943 Affirmation of His Born Again Status: His Inscription “Yours in Christ” by Dick B., with Ken B. (rev. 12/27/16)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Bill Wilson's 1943 Affirmation of His Born Again
Status:</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">His Inscription “Yours in Christ” </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">By Dick B., with Ken B.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(lightly edited by Ken B.,
12/27/16)</span><br />
© 2014-2016 Anonymous. All rights reserved<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Born
again</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill Wilson said in his
autobiography: <o:p></o:p></div>
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For sure, I'd been born again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Bill W., <i>My First 40 Years </i>(Center
City, Minn.: Hazelden, 2000), 147. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For more examples of this language,
see Dick B., <i>The Conversion of Bill W., </i>110 (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001KNlLxC7igh5c-YO1fYOZ1jsLxCZQU-pQH23Vlpbs8MzElYPkGSIJYP-2wb9FwjoU-r1Au7iA5JQCoBS-nB9TDZAJGlOXnay0g6u4GB6jCMAk-e47QX4_RLT0RIRCWgNjyR4VrfTtCS_mc5fHF2Mt2qhLR6U9jldOR8JrQJLo6Bqx0XAF7jDfNITWRZw2yInaRb4DDyhturk=&c=ENjF3ZI9vuG12qNl0TJC3k2JnqYQepFLHFe2ysOCVsGsoGw4ijU86Q==&ch=mtj26MIzEAi_WS-oBM0-X-fELIL0iSftoDaxzVvXQYD720boFFW2lQ==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/theconversionofbillw.shtml</span></a>)]<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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The man was transformed; there was no denying he had
been reborn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[“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. You may see what is
purported to be a copy of this document here: <a href="http://www.aamo.info/bb/billstory/index.htm"><span style="color: white;">http://www.aamo.info/bb/billstory/index.htm</span></a>
(accessed 12/27/16). For more on this, see, for example: Dick B., <i>The
Conversion of Bill W., xv, </i>47, 49.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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And he [Bill W.] went up, and really, in very great
sincerity, did hand over his life to Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[“Lois Remembers: Searcy, Ebby,
Bill & Early Days.” Recorded in Dallas, Texas, June 29, 1973, Moore, OK:
Sooner Cassette, Side 1.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For more on this, see, for example:
Dick B. <i>The Conversion of Bill W., </i>61.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lois Wilson wrote in her
autobiography:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although my joy and faith in his rebirth continued, I
missed his companionship.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[(L.B.W.), <i>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></div>
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For more on this, see, for example:
Dick B., <i>The Conversion of Bill W., </i>114.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even author Mel B., the man who
dubs himself a casual historian, concluded:<o:p></o:p></div>
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His [Bill W.'s] was clearly a kind of “born again”
experience, . . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Mel B., <i>New Wine: The Spiritual
Roots of the Twelve Step Miracle </i>(Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 1991)<i>, </i>88]<o:p></o:p></div>
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In John 3:7 (KJV), Jesus said to
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1 Peter 1:23 (KJV), the Apostle
Peter wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>In
Christ</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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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>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></div>
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Ken R. also posted the following
message on the web:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I just purchased a First Edition, Third printing Big Book inscribed on the
front free endpaper, <o:p></o:p></div>
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“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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Ken R.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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And here is the detailed
information PBA Galleries provided about this particular copy of the first
edition of <i>Alcoholics Anonymous</i> in conjunction with the auction:<o:p></o:p></div>
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PBA Galleries (Auctioneers & Appraisers)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sale 389: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#389)
09/25/2008 1:00 PM PDT CLOSED!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lot 3 of 145:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than Six
Thousand Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lot closed - Sale Price: $13,200<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heading: (Alcoholics
Anonymous)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Author: [Wilson,
William (Bill W.)]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Place: New
York<o:p></o:p></div>
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Publisher: Works
Publishing Co.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Date: 1942<o:p></o:p></div>
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Description: 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, "To my friend Dr. Jesse M. Bader, Yours in Christ, Bill Wilson,
1/13/43." 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></div>
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Lot Amendments<o:p></o:p></div>
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Condition:<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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[accessed 1/2/2015. If the auction page doesn’t immediately come into view, copy-and-paste
this link into your browser’s address bar and then hit “Enter”.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Some
Examples of the Phrase "in Christ" in the King James Version of the
Bible</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV), the
Apostle Paul wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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In Romans 8:1 (KJV), the Apostle
Paul wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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Here are a couple of other examples
of this phrase:<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 Corinthians 2:17 (KJV): “. . . in the sight of God <b>speak
we in Christ</b>” [emphasis added]<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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<b>Appendix</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Additional
Examples of Verses in the King James Version</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>in
Which the Phrase “In Christ” Occurs</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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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></div>
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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></div>
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Col 1:2: To the saints and faithful
brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God
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for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-64303278336161456852016-09-12T16:36:00.003-10:002016-09-12T16:37:29.631-10:00Obituary for Richard G. Burns (pen name: "Dick B.") who passed away one year ago on September 12, 2015<br />
Aloha!<br />
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Dick B.'s son Ken here.<br />
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I maintain the "Dick B.: The Real 'Power' Behind Alcoholics Anonymous" blog that my dad started many years ago.<br />
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My dad, Richard G. Burns (pen name: "Dick B."), passed away one year ago on September 12, 2015.<br />
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Here is the Obituary for him that I had published in <i>The Maui News</i>:<br />
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Richard G. Burns, of
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, passed away on September 12, 2015. He was born on May 15,
1925, in Stockton, California. He was the only child of Earl Gordon Burns (1895-1971)
and Alberta Viola (Whale) Burns (1894-1980).<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was predeceased by his wife,
Eloise Estelle Beil (1928-2001), to whom he was married 1951-1985. He is
survived by two children, Kenneth and Donald; and Don’s two daughters, Emily
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Richard was a U.S. Army Sergeant in
WW II.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He received an A.A. degree, with
honors, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1948. He also received
a Phi Beta Kappa key in his Junior year at Berkeley. He received his A.B.
degree from Stanford University in 1949; and also received his Juris Doctor
degree at Stanford in 1951.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard was an attorney with Clausen
& Burns, San Francisco, 1951-1961; and was in private practice in Corte
Madera, California, from 1961-1986.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After going on a guided tour of the
Bible Lands with his son Ken around 1980, Richard became a Bible-believing
Christian.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Later felled by alcoholism, he entered
Alcoholics Anonymous in April 1986, sponsored more than 100 men in A.A., and
had more than 29 years of continuous clean and sober time at his death.<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1990,
a Christian A.A. member asked Richard, “Dick, did you know that A.A. came from
the Bible?” Researching that question launched a 25-year quest. He founded Good
Book Publishing Company in 1991. Using the pen name “Dick B.,” he wrote 46
titles and more than 1,750 articles, and presented numerous audio and videos,
on the topic of the roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in
early A.A.’s astonishing success. His best known title is: “The Good Book and
the Big Book: A.A.’s Roots in the Bible.” In 2003, he cofounded Freedom Ranch
Maui, Inc. And in 2009, he cofounded the International Christian Recovery
Coalition. His main website is <a href="http://www.dickb.com/">www.DickB.com</a>.
Contact Dick B.’s son Ken for more info at <a href="mailto:kcb00799@gmail.com">kcb00799@gmail.com</a>.</span>Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-79700532878964178932016-06-05T18:25:00.004-10:002016-09-12T16:39:47.526-10:00How the Words “Recovered” and “Recovering” Are Used Regarding Alcoholism in “Alcoholics Anonymous,” 4th Ed. (2001)<br />
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So how does one settle apparent controversies in A.A. such
as the one swirling around the words "recovered" and
"recovering?" The following wise words from the current edition of
the Big Book might be of help: ". . . [O]ur literature has preserved the
integrity of the A.A. message, . . ." ["Alcoholics Anonymous,"
4th ed., xxiv].<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to a concordance available online of the current,
fourth edition of “Alcoholics Anonymous” (“the Big Book”) published in 2001,
the word “recovered” relating to alcoholism occurs 15 times [<a href="http://www.164andmore.com/words/recovered.htm"><span style="background-color: black;">http://www.164andmore.com/words/recovered.htm</span></a>;
accessed 6/5/16] up to and including page 164. The word “recovering” used in relation to alcoholism occurs
twice, once in a footnote on page 104 in chapter eight, “To Wives” (which note
was not present in the first printing of the first edition of “Alcoholics
Anonymous” published in 1939); and once on page 122 in chapter nine, “The
Family Afterward.” [<a href="http://www.164andmore.com/words/recovering.htm"><span style="background-color: black;">http://www.164andmore.com/words/recovering.htm</span></a>;
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We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men
and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. [“Alcoholics
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“In that brief space [“Sixteen years . . . between our first
printing . . . and . . . our second edition.”], Alcoholics Anonymous has
mushroomed into nearly 6,000 groups whose membership is far above 150,000
recovered alcoholics.” [“Alcoholics Anonymous,” 4th ed., xv]<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Their very first case, a desperate one, recovered
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“If he says yes, then his attention should be drawn to you
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“He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-36989282381585503642016-05-14T13:16:00.000-10:002016-05-14T13:28:13.826-10:00Dick B.'s son Ken "debates" the topic "Is A.A. Biblical" (Moody Radio Network: "Up for Debate": May 14, 2016, episode)<div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Hear Dick B.'s son Ken "debate" the topic "Is
A.A. Biblical?" on the May 14, 2016, episode of the "Up for
Debate" show on the Moody Radio Network:<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to A.A. General Service Conference-approved
literature, A.A. was and is based on a biblical foundation. Here are some
examples:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: -0.25in;">A.A.
cofounder Dr. Bob stated: ". . . [W]e [Dr. Bob and A.A. cofounder Bill W.]
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." ["The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous," 13 (item #
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Bob also stated: "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." ["The Co-Founders of Alcoholics
Anonymous," 14 (item #P-53)].</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px; text-indent: -0.25in;">"When
someone asked him [Dr. Bob] a question about the [A.A.] program, his usual
response was: 'What does it say in the Good Book?'" ["DR. BOB and the
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. . Bill [W.] looked across at my wife [i.e., the wife of AA #3, Bill D.] and
said to her, '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].</span></div>
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Bob also stated in the last sentence of his personal story in the Big Book:
"Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!" ["Alcoholics
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The page discusses: (1) Dick' B.s 25 years of research on
the roles God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in early A.A.'s
overall 75% success rate among those who really tried, and in the documented
93% success rate in early Cleveland A.A.; and (2) how Christian leaders and
workers in the recovery arena, as well as alcoholics and addicts who still
suffer, and others affected by addiction, may apply the fruit of Dick B.'s
research in order to enhance their success and effectiveness in today's recovery
scene.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most posts--including Facebook Live videos (coming
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
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Part 1: The Akron A.A.
Christian Program That Cured Alcoholics<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 6: What Every Christian in Recovery Ought to Know
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Chap. 1: Directions
for “The New Way Out”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 3: The Two, Diverse Recovery Program
Origins; and the Three Emerging, Varied Approaches in Akron, Cleveland, and New
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Chap. 5: Jerry Dunn’s Relevant Viewpoints [He
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Chap. 6: Picking Your Way along Today<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 7: Hindrances Today Blocking the Path of
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Chap. 9: The Choice of “A New Way Out”<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
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1: A
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Appendix: 28 Oxford Group Principles That Influenced A.A.<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: 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: My
Personal Debt to, and Opportunities from, A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Believers Involved in Today’s Twelve Step Programs May Be Seeking<o:p></o:p></div>
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Simple Program as A.A.’s Pioneers Described It<o:p></o:p></div>
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Real Foundations of A.A.’s Pioneer Program<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 2: You Can Start a
Good Book/Big Book Group in a Variety of Ways<o:p></o:p></div>
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Basics Early AAs Borrowed from the Bible<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oxford Group Path in Pioneer A.A.’s Steps<o:p></o:p></div>
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Time, Devotionals, and the Guidance of God<o:p></o:p></div>
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Smith’s Specific Journal and Twelve Step Ideas<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill’s Acknowledged Mentor, and A.A.’s Six Basic Roots<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 9: Oxford
Group Leader Sam Shoemaker’s Input<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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Netting<o:p></o:p></div>
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History Can Teach You in, and about, A.A. Itself<o:p></o:p></div>
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More than Abstinence<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Reality” with “Divine Help”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 8: There
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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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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->The
Story of Dr. Bob’s Reading<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Sources
of Information about His Books<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->The
Books Dr. Bob Owned, Read, and Recommended<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->b.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Books
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->g.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->The
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Oxford Group<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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of Special Interest to Dr. Bob<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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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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<b>Contents</b>
of <i>God and Alcoholism: Our Growing
Opportunity in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Nonsense “gods” of Recovery<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some
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What
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“God
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An
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Watch, Meditation, and Early A.A.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contents of <i>Henrietta
B. Seiberling: Ohio’s Lady with a Cause</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Real Spiritual Roots<o:p></o:p></div>
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Non-Alcoholic Woman Who Helped Found A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill’s Later 12 Steps<o:p></o:p></div>
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Observations about A.A.’s Connection with the<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oxford Group<o:p></o:p></div>
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to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Index<o:p></o:p></div>
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Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 1: Historical Research Papers, Letters, Pictures,
and Tapes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Materials Gathered on or about A.A. Founders<o:p></o:p></div>
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Materials Gathered Concerning A.A.’s Spiritual
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Materials about Special Early A.A.
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Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pamphlets Circulated in Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alcoholics Anonymous: Pro, Con, and Evaluated<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 3: Spiritual
History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></div>
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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></div>
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Publications
by or about the Rev. Dr. Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Jr.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Publications
by or about the Oxford Group and Oxford Group People<o:p></o:p></div>
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Books
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Christian
and Other Religious Literature Pertaining to Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Books of Dr. Bob’s Library<o:p></o:p></div>
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Background Books A.A. Pioneers Read<o:p></o:p></div>
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Miscellaneous
Books Used in Dick B.’s Research and Writings<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 4: Temperance,
Anti Saloon League, Prohibition, Abstinence, Alcohol Books and Pamphlets of an
Earlier Time<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 5: Recent
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Part 6: Details
on Contributors and Their Collections<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 7: Our Advisory Council Supporting Members<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Contents</b>
of <i>New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam
Shoemaker, and A.A.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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List
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Foreword
to the Pittsburgh Edition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword
by Nickie Shoemaker Haggart<o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword
by Julia Harris<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 4: The
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Chap. 5: The
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Chap. 6: Sam’s
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Chap. 7: Shoemaker’s
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Chap. 8: Sam,
the Great Communicator, and His Letters<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 9: Shoemaker
and His Bible<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 10: Shoemaker
Ideas That “Took” in A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 11: The
Pittsburgh Afterglow<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 12: What
Shoemaker’s Contributions Can Mean for All of Us Today<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 1: 28
Oxford Group Principles That Influenced A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 2: The
Oxford Group Literature Read by AAs<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 3: The
January 22, 1935, Letter from Sam to Bill W.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 4: The
Irving Harris Memorandum Regarding Bill W. and Sam<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 5: Entries
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Appendix 6: the
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Appendix 7: Lois
Wilson’s Oxford Group Notebook<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 8: Two
Important Bill Wilson Letters<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill’s
Letter of April 23, 1963, to Sam<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill
Wilson’s April 1953 Memo as to “Original AA Steps”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 9: The
Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 10: Excerpts
from <i>The Calvary Evangel</i> and <i>Calvary Church Yearbook</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 11: Lessons
from the Original Personal Stories of A.A. Pioneers<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 12: Alcoholism
Statistics and A.A. Success Rates<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contents of
<i>Pioneer Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous:
God’s Role in Recovery Confirmed!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Chapter 1: <i>Experience,
Strength & Hope: Stories from the First Three Editions of </i>Alcoholics
Anonymous<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chapter 3: <i>Alcoholics
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Chapter 4: <i>Alcoholics
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Appendix 1: “Why Don’t You Choose Your Own Conception of
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Appendix 2: Key Highlights in the Writing of the Big
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Appendix 3: The Expression “Religious Experience” and
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of <i>Real Twelve Step Fellowship History:
The Old-School A.A. You May Not Know</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dead or Nearly Dead People Made
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Lepers Cleansed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paralyzed People Healed<o:p></o:p></div>
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People with Fevers Healed<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woman with the Hemorrhage (or
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A Man with an Infirmity 38 Years
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Lame People Healed<o:p></o:p></div>
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People Who Were Lunatick Were
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Several Types of Sickness and
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Contents of <i>Stick
with the Winners!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Introduction: “Old-School” Christian
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Meetings 15<o:p></o:p></div>
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Conference-approved Resources 17<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other Resources 18<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Alcoholics Anonymous </i>23<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous </i>28<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers </i>29<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Many Compared Early A.A. to First Century
Christianity 48<o:p></o:p></div>
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his
representatives 49<o:p></o:p></div>
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“First Century Christianity” in the Book of
Acts 51<o:p></o:p></div>
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A.A.’s Christian Predecessors 55<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Vermont of Dr. Bob and Bill W.’s youth 55<o:p></o:p></div>
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Christian Recovery before A.A. 57<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Bob and Bill W.’s Christian Upbringings 68<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Conversion Factor in Bill W.’s Life 69<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many Early AAs Claimed They Were “Cured” 71<o:p></o:p></div>
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Conclusion 93<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Contents </b>of
<i>That Amazing Grace: The Role of Clarence
and Grace S. in Alcoholics Anonymous</i><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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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1: My Introduction to Grace<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 3: Now about Clarence<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 4: Clarence and A.A.’s Founding Years<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 7: T/he Big Book, Steps, and A.A.
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Part 3: The Ministry of Clarence and Grace<o:p></o:p></div>
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Index<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bibliography<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Contents </b>of
<i>The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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List
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Foreword
to First Edition<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Introduction<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part 1: The Beginnings<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1: The Roles of James D. Newton and
Russell (“Bud”) Firestone<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their Qualifications<o:p></o:p></div>
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28 Oxford Group Principles That
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Dr. Bob and His Wife, Anne<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Contents </b>of
<i>The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual
Growth</i>, 7<sup>th</sup> ed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix: Inventory of Books on Hand at Calvary
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Contents of <i>The
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Introduction<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ch. 1: “The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix:
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<b>Contents</b> of <i>The First Nationwide Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Alcoholics Anonymous, the Founders, and Belief in Almighty God<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Pioneers Believed That, When
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The Miraculous Result<o:p></o:p></div>
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Medical Help and Psychological
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The Four Early A.A. Factors
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Today<o:p></o:p></div>
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Foreword
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->"Lest We Forget Early AAs and Their
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Early
A.A.'s Success Rate Compared to Today<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Historical Evidence of A.A.'s Good Book Roots<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Oxford Group-Shoemaker Impact<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bible
Devotionals and Other Early A.A. Literature<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Purpose of Our Book<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
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God
is<o:p></o:p></div>
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A
Loving God<o:p></o:p></div>
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A
Special "god" for A.A.?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whence
Came "Higher Power?"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill
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"God
As We Understood Him"<o:p></o:p></div>
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"A
Power Greater Than Ourselves"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Direct
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Recognizable
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A.A.
Slogans and Watchwords with Biblical Roots<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two
Other Biblical Concepts<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Book of James<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
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Step
One and Deflation at Depth<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three and the Decision to Surrender<o:p></o:p></div>
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Four and Self-examination<o:p></o:p></div>
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Six, Conviction and Readiness to Change<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seven, Humble Submission and Rebirth<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eight, Willingness To Make Amends<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nine, Restitution<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ten and Daily Corrective Action<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eleven, Prayer, Guidance, Growth, Power<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twelve, Awakening, Witness, Practice of Principles<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
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Simmered
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Index<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Contents</b>
of <i>The Good Book-Big Book Guidebook:<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>How to
Include the Creator’s Impact on Early A.A. in Recovery Programs Today</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1: History:
The Inclusion in Recovery of A.A.’s Biblical Origins and Christian Fellowship<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 2: The
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Chap. 3: Alcoholics
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Chap. 4: The
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Chap. 5: The
Real Program of Early A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 1: Catch
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Appendix 2: A.A.
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<b>Contents</b>
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Program’s Absolute Essentials</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix
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The Akron
Crucible Where It All Began<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Real
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An Overview
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The Frank
Amos Reports in 1938<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Big Book
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<i>Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.’s
Spiritual Roots and Successes</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Take the
Twelve Steps with the Big Book, A.A. History, and the Good Book at Your Side</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Introduction<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 1: Begin
Your Step Study by Reviewing the Original Akron Program and Learning How A.A.
Really Began<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 2: Begin
Your Study of the Steps by Looking First at the Bible and at Each Step’s Known
Bible Origins<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 3: With
the Bible Origins in Mind, Study Each Step to Learn the Basic Ideas It Contains
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Chap. 4: 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></div>
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Chap. 5: .
. . Then See How Much of the Bible Material, Oxford Group Ideas, and
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Wife’s) Writings<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Word-of Mouth” Ideas Already in Place<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 7: .
. . 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></div>
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Chap. 8: Studying
the Steps Mindful of Other Major Contributing Literature<o:p></o:p></div>
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Taking Your Steps Precisely as Directed by the Big Book—Then Make Your
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Chap. 1: The Spiritual Beginnings of A.A.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chap. 3: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, and
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Chap. 6: Anne Smith, “Mother of A.A.,”
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of <b>Why Early A.A. Succeeded:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The Good
Book in Alcoholics Anonymous Yesterday and Today<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>(A Bible
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Foreword<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preface<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->The
Way Out (The real heart of early A.A. and its quest for deliverance by Almighty
God)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Early AAs Said about Reading the Bible (The real Good Book endorsements by AAs)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bible and Recovery (What the Bible was in A.A., what has been lost, where to
find God)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your Bible Study by Learning about God (God’s existence, kids, name, and
qualities)<o:p></o:p></div>
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about God’s Word (God's Word--the Bible, His Will, guidance, victory)<o:p></o:p></div>
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about God’s Son, Jesus Christ (The vital importance of keeping Jesus in the
picture)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love, Choice, Obedience (God’s ways, sin, the need to obey, questions for
critics)<o:p></o:p></div>
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from Your Prisons (God’s Will; the many releases available; free indeed!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->9.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->More
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></div>
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Not so tough (Believers and students have every right and need to stand tall on
the Bible)<o:p></o:p></div>
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on the Platter Today (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></div>
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The Creator’s Name is Yahweh!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 2:
The Materials Dr. Bob considered "Absolutely Essential"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Appendix 3:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (statistics and more)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bibliography<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dick B. and Ken B.,<br />
<i>Stick with the Winners!</i><br />
<i>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><br />
<a href="http://www.dickb.com/Stick-With-The-Winners.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/Stick-With-The-Winners.shtml</span></a><br />
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Introduction: "Old-School" Christian Recovery<br />
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Ch. 1: Resources for "Old-School" 12 Step Recovery Meetings<br />
<ul>
<li>Conference-approved Resources</li>
<li>Other Resources</li>
</ul>
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Ch. 2: Conference-Approved Literature Foundations</div>
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<ul>
<li><i>Alcoholics Anonymous</i></li>
<li><i>The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous </i>pamphlet (P-53)</li>
<li><i>DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i></li>
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Ch. 3: The Real Akron A.A. Program</div>
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Ch. 4: 16 Key Practices of the Real Akron A.A. Program</div>
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Ch. 5: "Old-School" A.A. and First Century Christianity</div>
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<li>Many Compared Early A.A. to First Century Christianity</li>
<ul>
<li>John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his representatives</li>
<ul>
<li>John D. Rockefeller, Jr., himself</li>
<li>Frank Amos</li>
<li>Albert Scott</li>
</ul>
<li>"First Century Christianity" in the Book of Acts</li>
</ul>
<li>A.A.'s Christian Predecessors</li>
<ul>
<li>The Vermont of Dr. Bob and Bill W.'s youth</li>
<li>Christian Recovery before A.A.</li>
<ul>
<li>The Young Men's Christian Association</li>
<li>The Great Evangelists</li>
<li>The Rescue Missions</li>
<li>The Salvation Army</li>
<li>The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor</li>
<li>"A First Century Christian Fellowship" (The Oxford Group)</li>
</ul>
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<li>Dr. Bob and Bill W.'s Christian Upbringings</li>
<ul>
<li>Dr. Bob's Christian Upbringing</li>
<li>Bill W.'s Christian Upbringing</li>
</ul>
<li>The Conversion Factor in Bill W.'s Life</li>
<li>Many Early AAs Claimed They Were "Cured"</li>
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Ch. 6: "Old-School" Elements That Can Be Used Today</div>
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<li>Where to Begin with a Newcomer</li>
<li>Have Newcomers Give Their Lives to God</li>
<li>Eliminating Sinful Conduct and Obeying God's Will</li>
<li>"We Are Willing to Grow along Spiritual Lines"</li>
<li>Carrying the Message to Those Who Still Suffer</li>
<li>"Religious and Social" Comradeship Is Important!</li>
<li>"Be Quick to See Where Religious People Are Right. Make Use of What They Offer"</li>
</ul>
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Ch, 7: How to Conduct "Old-School" Recovery Meetings</div>
</div>
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<ul>
<li>How to Start a "Conference-approved Literature" Group</li>
<li>Initial Decisions and Actions--Including Literature Selection</li>
<ul>
<li>Only Conference-approved material on the literature table</li>
<li>Literature tables with Conference-approved & other materials</li>
</ul>
<li>General Guides to Establishing Study Meetings</li>
<li>Topics for Study Meetings</li>
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Conclusion<br />
<br />
Dick B. and Ken B.,<br />
<i>Stick with the Winners!</i><br />
<i>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><br />
<a href="http://www.dickb.com/Stick-With-The-Winners.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/Stick-With-The-Winners.shtml</span></a></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-45622723864959909672015-10-06T17:36:00.004-10:002015-10-06T18:00:13.396-10:00“The Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury: Part Five<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian, </i>St. Johnsbury, Vt., Friday, Mar. 12, 1875</div>
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A.A. cofounder Robert Holbrook Smith, M.D. (“Dr. Bob”) was
born on August 8, 1879, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref1" 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: 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;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The “Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury had a profound effect on the
town of St. Johnsbury during and after the time Walter Perrin Smith and Susan
Amanda Holbrook (who became Mrs. Smith in August 1876) were both living and
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Walter Perrin Smith, the father of A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob, was
living and working in St. Johnsbury when the “Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury
happened. He:</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was born on his father’s farm in Hardwick,
Vermont, on November 4, 1841.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->His parents were Vermont natives John Stoddard Smith
(a blacksmith by trade and later a farmer in Hardwick in Caledonia county,
where he passed away May 5, 1886) and Sophronia Maria (Perrin) Smith (who
passed away October 15, 1887).<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Attended academies at Hardwick, Vermont, and
Morrisville, Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><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;">[4]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a> (The
“academies” of that day were roughly equivalent to what we call “high schools”
today.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Graduated from the University of Vermont in
1867.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref5" 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: 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;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was briefly principal of Hardwick Academy in
Vermont after his graduation from the University of Vermont in 1867.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Studied law at the University of Michigan from
1867 to 1868, but did not graduate.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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="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;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Pursued the study of law with Powers & Gleed,
attorneys of Morrisville in Lamoille County, Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was admitted to the Lamoille County bar in May
1869.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in the autumn
of 1869.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was a partner of Hon. Jonathan Ross in St.
Johnsbury for one year in 1869 to 1870, which partnership ended when Ross was
elected to the supreme bench.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Practiced law alone from 1870 on, except for a
brief partnership.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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="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;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was superintendent of schools in St. Johnsbury under
the town system.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Served as state’s attorney for Caledonia county
from 1874 to 1876.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Married Susan Amanda Holbrook on August 15, 1876—either
in Lyndon, Vermont (most likely) or in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" 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;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Their only child, Robert Holbrook Smith, was
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Represented St. Johnsbury in the state
legislature in 1880.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" 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;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was continuously elected probate judge beginning
in 1882.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" 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;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was a director of the Merchant’s National Bank
in St. Johnsbury.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" 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;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was a director of the First National Bank in St.
Johnsbury.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" 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;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was a director, vice-president, and member of
the board of investors of the Passumpsic Savings Bank in St. Johnsbury.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" 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;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He also eventually became president of this bank.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" 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;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Passed away at his home in St. Johnsbury on
October 16, 1919, at age 77.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" 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;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Susan Amanda Holbrook (who became Susan Holbrook Smith when
she married Walter Perrin Smith on August 15, 1876), the mother of A.A.
cofounder Dr. Bob, was also living and working in St. Johnsbury when the “Great
Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury happened. She:</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was born in Hardwick, Vermont, on June 26, 1855.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" 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;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was the daughter of Perley Rogers Holbrook,
M.D., and Louise Maria (Lawrence) Holbrook of St. Johnsbury.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" 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;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Attended private schools.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" 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;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1874.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" 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;">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was a teacher at St. Johnsbury from 1874 to
1876.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" 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;">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Married Walter Perrin Smith on August 15, 1876--probably
in Lyndon, Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" 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;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Passed away August 7, 1942, in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_ednref29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" 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;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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And now, here are key statements about the “Great Awakening”
of 1875 in St. Johnsbury and related matters from the Friday, Mar. 12, 1875,
issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian </i>newspaper:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Religious Meetings</b>.</div>
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Free Baptist Church . . . Rev. O. Roys, pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Methodist Church . . . Rev. D. E. Miller, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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North Cong’l Church . . . Rev. Chas. M. Southgate, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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South Cong’l Church . . . Rev. E. T. Fairbanks, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Church of the Messiah, Universalist . . . Rev. B. M.
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Baptist Church . . . Rev. J. H. Marsh, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Local and State News</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Laymen’s meeting at Avenue Hall Sunday afternoon, at 3
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There will be a donation to the Rev. O. Roys, at the Free
Baptist hall, on Friday evening, Marc 19.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Annual meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at the close of the young
people’s meeting at the North Church next Saturday evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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True Repentance, and what leads to it, will be the subject
of discourse at the Church of the Messiah next Sunday evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some touching letter and beautiful remembrances have been
received by several persons in this place, from the Massachusetts laymen who
came here strangers, but left warm friends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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About forty persons united with the several churches in this
place last Sabbath, some of them in the fruits of the revival now in progress.
Thirteen adults and three children were baptized at the North Church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Union meeting at North Church tonight Thursday. Young
people’s union meeting at the same place Saturday evening. Young converts’ and
enquirer’s meeting at the several churches, Friday evening.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Great Awakening</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The religious awakening in this place continues with power.
The union mass meetings are continued twice a week and are largely attended. The
people do not come together to hear orators from abroad, for there are none.
But they hear the words of truth and soberness out of the mouths of those in
whom the Lord has put a new song. These include worldly men, moral men, bashful
men, timid women and children—all classes and conditions who believe with their
hearts, are all ready to make confession with their mouths. Every meeting some
new ones rise and ask for the prayers of Christians. One marked feature of this
revival is the illustration of the power of prayer. Many an one as in substance
said: “I have sat under preaching unmoved; the solicitations and arguments of
friends only set me more firmly against all good influences; but when I found
my Christian friends were making my case the subject of earnest and united
prayer, it touched my heart, and I could hold out no longer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another pleasant feature of this awakening, is the earnest
manner in which converts go to work. There is a good religious interest in the
towns all about, and the Macedonian cry, “Come over and help us,” is heard on
every side, and is gladly responded to. Some converts of six weeks standing
have experienced more spiritual growth and joy in service, than many Christians
of as many years. They believe with the Psalmist that the redeemed of the Lord
should say so; and they have strength given them to do it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Lyndon, Burke, West Concord, Danville, Barton, etc.,
there are union meetings being held, and good religious interest. Other towns
are reaching out their hands for this great salvation. May their prayer be
answered. Union meetings by the laymen, begin at Lyndonville to-morrow, and
continue over the Sabbath. It is expected that similar meetings will be held at
St. Johnsbury Centre the same days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rev. H. J. Broadwell, who has been supplying the pulpit of
the Congregational church at the Centre for a few weeks, has closed his labors
and returned to his home at New Haven, Conn., the present week. Mr. Broadwell
did not wish to remain unless he could be settled, and as there was no
probability of this being done, he withdrew.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is expected that a series of union meetings under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Committee, will begin at the Centre on Friday
evening of this week, and continue over the Sabbath—conducted by laymen.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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The annual business meeting of the Y. M. C. A. will be held
at the North Church on Saturday evening, March 13, at eight o’clock. The
election of officers will take place and all members are invited to be present.
Those wishing to join are invited to be present, or send in their names. It is
desirable to increase the membership by addition to the number of ladies who
are members, and they are especially invited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>F. B. Denio, President.</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i> (New
York, N.Y.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1980), 9. “. . . Dr. Bob
. . . was born August 8, 1879, in the front bedroom of a large 19<sup>th</sup>
century clapboard house at Central and Summer Streets in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">During our first research trip
to St. Johnsbury in October 2007, my dad (pen name “Dick B.”) and I searched
the birth records for Robert Holbrook Smith at the Town of St. Johnsbury
building (which contains offices of the fire department, of vital statistics,
and of public officials). The building was located on Main Street, very close to
the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. We then had a clerk there produce for us a
certified copy of the birth certificate for Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Bob),
and we purchased it. Bob’s birth records did not indicate whether he had been born
in a hospital or at home. The clerk who assisted us with Bob’s records opined that
he had been born at home based on those and similar records from that time
period. (See 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), 93,
113, 242: </span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At the time of Dr. Bob’s birth
in 1879, the street address for the house in which he (apparently) was born was
“20 Summer Street.” [See, for example: “Smith, Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson
Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>,
2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(Chicago, A. N. Marquis &
Company, 1916), 994: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/1qfp6o"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/1qfp6o</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">.]
During one of my dad’s and my four research trips to St. Johnsbury (2007, 2008,
2012, 2013), someone in St. Johnsbury told us that the street addresses for
Summer Street had been renumbered sometime since Dr. Bob was born in 1879. And
that person told us that that was why the street address for “Dr. Bob’s
Birthplace and Boyhood Home” today is “297 Summer Street.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Hiram Carleton, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and
Family History of the State of Vermont</i>, Vol. II (New York: The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1903), 172: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/1qfp6o"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/1qfp6o</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172. See also “Smith, Walter Perrin” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172; and “Smith, Walter Perrin” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172. In its “Deaths” section (pages 128-30), Walter Perrin Smith is listed under
the “Non-Graduates” heading as follows: “Walter Perrin Smith, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">l </i>’67-’68, A.B. (Vermont) ’67, A.M. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ibid.</i>) ’70, d. at St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
Oct. 16, 1919, aged 78. See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Michigan
Alumnus</i>, Volume XXVII, October, 1920—August, 1921 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: The
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, [1920]), 130. The listing in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Michigan Alumnus </i>would seem to
indicate that Walter Perrin Smith obtained an A.B. degree from the University
of Vermont in 1867, and an A.M. degree from the University of Vermont [which would
seem to be the meaning of “(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ibid</i>)” in
the listing] in 1870. The listing for “Smith, Walter Perrin” in Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed., 994,
states more clearly: “. . . A.B., U. of Vt., 1867, A.M., 1870; . . .”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn6" 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: 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;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172. The abbreviation “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">l </i>’67-’68”
in the listing for Walter Perrin Smith in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Michigan Alumnus</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would seem to
indicate that Smith studied law at the University of Michigan from 1867 to
1868, but that he didn’t graduate from the university with a law degree. See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Michigan Alumnus</i>, Volume XXVII,
October, 1920—August, 130. The listing for “Smith, Walter Perrin” in Marquis,
ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.,
994, states more clearly: “. . . student Ann Arbor (Mich.) Law Sch. 1 yr.: . .
.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn8" 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: 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;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172; and “Smith, Walter Perrin” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn10" 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: 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;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn11" 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: 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;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 172-73.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).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;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn13" 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: 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;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers</i>, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn14" 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: 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;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers</i>, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" 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;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173. See also Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994. The listing for “Smith, Susan Holbrook” in Marquis states: “m. St.
Johnsbury, Aug. 15, 1876, Walter P. Smith.” However, the listing for “Smith,
Walter Perrin” on the same page in Marquis states: “m. Lyndon, Vt., Aug. 15,
1876, Susan Amanda Holbrook.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" 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;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers</i>, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" 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;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Carleton, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>,
vol. II, 173. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the
Good Oldtimers</i>, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" 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;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173. See also: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers</i>, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" 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;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carleton,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogical and Family History</i>, vol.
II, 173.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" 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;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" 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;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Michigan Alumnus</i>, Volume XXVII,
October, 1920—August, 130. See also “Death of Walter P. Smith had long been
identified with the best interests of the community” in the October 17, 1919,
issue of the evening <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caledonian</i>: </span><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143051078"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143051078</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 10/6/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="edn23" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" 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;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Smith,
Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" 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;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Smith,
Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" 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;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Smith,
Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" 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;">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Smith,
Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" 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;">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Smith,
Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" 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;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Smith,
Susan Holbrook” in Albert Nelson Marquis, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who’s Who in New England</i>, 2d ed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
</i>994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Five%20%20Friday%20Mar.%2012%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2021%202015%20(3).docx" name="_edn29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" 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;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “Susan
Holbrook Smith”: </span><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138700602"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138700602</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 10/6/2015. <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-9061386.post-78367578981711155912015-09-17T09:20:00.000-10:002018-06-24T16:00:05.803-10:00How Bill Wilson Wrote the Twelve Steps<div style="text-align: center;">
By Ken B. (based, in
part, on research by Dick B.)</div>
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
rights reserved<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since my dad (Dick B.) began his research on A.A. history 25
years ago in 1990, there have been two writers and a husband-and-wife team, in
particular, all holding themselves out to be Christians, who have claimed that
the original author of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A. cofounder
Bill W., received the Twelve Steps from evil spirits. Those writers are:<o:p></o:p><br />
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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]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Hunt</b>. In his article titled “God
as You Conceive Him/Her/It,” Hunt claims:<o:p></o:p></div>
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. . . A.A. with its
higher-power-as-you-understand-it opens the door to occultism. The official
A.A. biography of Wilson reveals that for years after A.A's founding, regular
seances were still being held in the Wilsons' home, and other occult activities
were being pursued:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>[A]s he started to write [the
A.A. manual], he asked for guidance....The words began tumbling out with
astonishing speed....(23)</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: white;">,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="color: white;">,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span></sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Martin and Deidre Bobgan</b>. In their
article titled “AA: Christian or Occult Roots?”, the Bobgan’s claim:<o:p></o:p></div>
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. . . Wilson combined the Oxford
Group practice of guidance with spiritism or channeling, and this appears to be
the process he used when writing the Twelve Steps:<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he started to write, he asked
for guidance. And he relaxed. The words began tumbling out with astonishing
speed.10<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref4" 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: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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;">3.<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;">John Lanagan</b>. In his article titled “Seances,
Spirits, and 12 Steps,” Lanagan claims:<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to PASS IT ON, Bill
Wilson considered that “spiritistic matters were no mere parlor game. . . . [T]here
are references to séances and other psychic events in the letters Bill wrote to
[wife] Lois during that first Akron summer with the Smiths, in
1935.”[12] <o:p></o:p></div>
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. . .<o:p> </o:p></div>
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. . . [H]ere is how PASS IT ON
describes Bill Wilson and the arrival of the 12 Steps. “As he started to write,
he asked for guidance. And he relaxed. The words began tumbling out with
astonishing speed. He completed the first draft in about half an hour, then
kept on writing until he felt he should stop and review what he had
written.”[13]<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to PASS IT
ON, Wilson asked for “guidance” as he began writing. But guidance
from what? The unsaved Wilson was eager to receive messages and
leadings from the spirit world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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. . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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T.A. McMahon, Editor of the Berean
Call, writes, “A.A.’s official biography indicates Bill Wilson received the
details of the 12 Steps through spirit dictation. Does anyone see a simple,
idolatrous problem here?”[14]<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref5" 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: 12pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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So is it an “open-and-shut case,” as Lanagan’s source T.A.
McMahon implies, that “Bill Wilson received the details of the 12 Steps through
spirit dictation”? To answer that question, let’s look at some of “the rest of
the story” of A.A. history that Hunt, the Bobgan’s, and Lanagan—all of whom
mention Dick B.—either don’t present, misrepresent, or downplay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To begin to get at “the rest of the story” about how Bill
wrote and/or “got” the Twelve Steps, let’s include the paragraph in the A.A.
General Service Conference-approved book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS
IT ON</i>’ that appears just before the brief portion of text Lanagan quotes.
And let’s add the full paragraph from which Lanagan took his quote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill wrote the Twelve Steps, he
said, while lying in bed at 182 Clinton Street with pencil in hand and a pad of
yellow scratch paper on his knee. He wrote them in bed, said Lois, not because
he was really sick, but he wasn't felling well, and if he could lie down, he
did: “He got into bed, that being the best place to think.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he started to write, he asked
for guidance. And he relaxed. The words began tumbling out with astonishing
speed. He completed the first draft in about half an hour, then kept on writing
until he felt he should stop and review what he had written. Numbering the new
steps, he found that they added up to twelve—a symbolic number; he thought of
the Twelve Apostles, and soon became convinced that the Society should have
twelve steps.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let’s talk about how to do historical research. As
Lanagan’s source T.A. McMahon notes, the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>is a biography.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Note the words “he asked for guidance” in the quotes above. Such third person
descriptive language is usually the mark of a biography rather than an
autobiography. And the biography <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT
ON’</i> was not published until 1984, about 15 years after Bill W. had died on
January 24, 1971.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Bill
W. discussed in his own words how he wrote or “got” the Twelve Steps in at
least three places, all written more than 25 years before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>was written. So
we will start with autobiographical material.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here is Bill’s description of how he wrote the Twelve Steps
in an article he penned for the July 1953 issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A.A. Grapevine </i>titled “A Fragment of History: Origin of the Twelve
Steps”:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I well remember the evening on
which the Twelve Steps were written. I was lying in bed quite dejected and
suffering from one of my imaginary ulcer attacks. Four chapters of the book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, had been roughed
out and read in meetings at Akron and New York. . . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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Having arrived at Chapter Five, it
seemed high time to state what our program really was. I remember running over
in my mind the world-of-mouth phrases then in current use. Jotting these down,
they added up to the six named above. . . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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At length I began to write on a
cheap yellow tablet. I split the word-of-mouth program up into smaller pieces,
meanwhile enlarging its scope considerably. Uninspired as I felt, I was
surprised that in a short time, perhaps half an hour, I had set down certain
principles which, on being counted, turned out to be twelve in number. And for
some unaccountable reason, I had moved the idea of God into the Second Step,
right up front. Besides, I had named God very liberally throughout the other
Steps. In one of the Steps, I had even suggested that the newcomer get down on
his knees.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Notice the absence of any reference to the word, or concept
of, “guidance” in this account Bill wrote—more than 30 years before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>appeared—of the night he penned
the Twelve Steps. And yet Hunt, the Bobgan’s, and Lanagan all hang their “Bill
Wilson received the details of the 12 Steps through spirit dictation” argument
on the use of the word “guidance” in the biography <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON</i>.’ Notice also Bill’s comment in his “A Fragment of
History” article in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A.A. Grapevine</i>
quoted immediately above—absent from the snippets Hunt, the Bobgan’s, and
Lanagan excerpted from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>biography—in
which he states:<o:p></o:p></div>
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. . . I had moved the idea of God
into the Second Step, right up front. Besides, I had named God very liberally
throughout the other Steps. In one of the Steps, I had even suggested that the
newcomer get down on his knees.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Many readers may not know the following four facts about the
wording of the Twelve Steps as Bill W. originally wrote them around early
December 1938<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>:<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
phrase “a Power greater than ourselves,” as seen today in Step Two in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>was not present. Bill W. stated that he
had consistently used the word "God" in the original draft of the 12 Steps.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><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;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The
phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>,” following
and modifying the word “God, as seen today in Step Three in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, was not present<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Bill W. stated that he had consistently used the word "God" in the original draft of the 12 Steps.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The
phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>,”
following and modifying the word “God,” as seen today in Step Eleven in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, was not present.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" 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;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Bill W. stated that he had consistently used the word "God" in the original draft of the 12 Steps.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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]-->According
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON,’ </i>Step Seven—as Bill
W. originally wrote it—probably read: “Humbly on our knees asked Him to remove
these shortcomings—holding nothing back.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" 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;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The facts set forth in items 1-3 immediately above—at least
with respect to the Twelve Steps themselves—do not support Hunt’s claim quoted
earlier about: “A.A. with its higher-power-as-you-understand-it opens the door to
occultism.” Bill W., according to his own words, had in “the original draft” of
the Twelve Steps “consistently used the word ‘God,’ . . .”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" 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;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
As I noted in the footnotes in this article, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>states concerning the earliest version(s) of the
Twelve Steps:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The very first draft of the Twelve
Steps, as Bill wrote them that night, has been lost. This is an approximate
reconstruction of the way he first set them down: . . . <o:p></o:p></div>
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‘2. Came to believe that God could
restore us to sanity.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘3. Made a decision to turn our
wills and our lives over to the care and direction of God.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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. . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘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.’” [See <em>'PASS IT ON,' </em>198.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let’s look at more autobiographical material from Bill
W. 30 years before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>was
published, Bill gave a talk at the Texas State A.A. Convention in June 1954.
Here is what he said in his speech about the night he wrote the Twelve Steps:<o:p></o:p></div>
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So then came that night when we
were up around about Chapter 5. As you know, I'd gone on about myself, which
was natural after all. And then the little introductory chapter and we dealt
with the agnostic and we described alcoholism, but boy, we finally got up to
the point where we really had to say what the book was all about and how this
deal works. As I told you, this was a six-step program then. On this particular
evening, I was lying in bed on Clinton Street wondering what the deuce this
next chapter would be about. The idea came to me, well, we need a definite
statement of concrete principles that these drunks can't wiggle out of. Can't
be any wiggling out of this deal at all. And this six-step program had two big
gaps in-between they'll wiggle out of. Moreover, if this book goes out to
distant readers, they have got to have an absolutely explicit program by which
to go. This was while I was thinking these thoughts, while my imaginary ulcer
was paining me and while I was mad as hell at these drunks because the money
was coming in too slow. Some had the stock and weren't paying up, A couple of
guys came in and they gave me a big argument and we yelled and shouted and I
finally went down and laid on the bed with my ulcer and I said, “Poor me.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a pad of paper by the bed
and I reached for that and said, “You've got to break this program up into
small pieces so they can't wiggle out.” So I started writing, trying to bust it
up into little pieces. And when I got the pieces set down on that piece of
yellow paper, I put numbers on them and was rather agreeably surprised when it
came out to 12. I said, “That's a good significant figure in Christianity and
mystic lore.” Then I noticed that instead of leaving the God idea to last, I'd
got it up front, but I didn't pay much attention to that; it looked pretty
good. Well, the next meeting comes along. . . .<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" 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;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Notice again the absence in Bill’s speech of any reference
to the word, or concept of, “guidance.” So this talk offers no support for the
arguments made by Hunt, the Bobgan’s, and Lanagan; which again were:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->That “other occult activities [i.e., other than
seances] were being pursued” and were involved in Bill’s writing of the Twelve
Steps. [Hunt’s claim];<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->That Bill’s (claimed) combination of “the Oxford
Group practice of guidance with spiritism or channeling . . . [appeared] to be
the process he used when writing the Twelve Steps.” [The Bobgan’s claim]; and<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->That Bill W. “. . . was eager to receive
messages and leadings from the spirit world.” And that he had “‘. . . received
the details of the 12 Steps through spirit dictation.’” [Lanagan’s claim]<o:p></o:p></div>
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The A.A. General Service Conference-approved book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age </i>presents
more autobiographical material by Bill W. concerning how he wrote the Twelve
Steps. Bill presented the following description of the background of, and his
process of writing, the Twelve Steps in a talk he gave at A.A.’s twentieth
anniversary celebration in St. Louis in 1955, nearly 30 years before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>was published in 1984. And
here is what the author of the Twelve Steps himself had to say:<o:p></o:p></div>
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So the job [of writing the drafts
of the chapters of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>]
went until we reached the famous Chapter 5.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" 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;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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. . . The hassling over the four
chapters already finished had really been terrific. I was exhausted. On many a
day I felt like throwing the book out the window.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was in this
anything-but-spiritual mood on the night when the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous were written. I was sore and tired clear through. I lay in bed at 182
Clinton Street with pencil in hand and with a tablet of scratch paper on my
knee. I could not get my mind on the job, much less put my heart in it. But
here was one of those things that had to be done. Slowly my mind came into some
kind of focus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This particular evening, . . . it
seemed to me that the program was still not definite enough. It might be a long
time before readers of the book in distant places and lands could be personally
contacted. Therefore our literature would have to be as clear and comprehensive
as possible. Our steps would have to be more explicit. There must not be a
single loophole through which the rationalizing alcoholic could wiggle out.
Maybe our six chunks of truth should be broken up into smaller pieces. Thus we
could better get the distant reader over the barrel, and at the same time we
might be able to broaden and deepen the spiritual implications of our whole
presentation. So far as I can remember this was all I had in mind when the
writing began. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally I started to write. I set
out to draft more than six steps; how many more I did not know. I relaxed and
asked for guidance. With a speed that was astonishing, considering my jangling
emotions, I completed the first draft. It took perhaps half an hour. The words
kept right on coming. When I reached a stopping point, I numbered the new
steps. They added up to twelve. Somehow this number seemed significant. Without
any special rhyme or reason I connected them with the twelve apostles. Feeling
greatly relieved now, I commenced to reread the draft. At this moment a couple
of late callers arrived. One of them was my boon companion of those days,
Howard A. With him was a newcomer, dry barely three months. I was greatly
pleased with what I had written, and I read them the new version of the program,
now the “Twelve Steps.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" 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;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
So here, in a talk Bill W. gave at A.A.’s St. Louis
convention in 1955 (for which a transcript was provided in the A.A. General
Service Conference-approved book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age </i>published in 1957), Bill used the word “guidance.”
He said, “I relaxed and asked for guidance.” So does Bill W.’s own use of the
word “guidance” in his talk in St. Louis in 1955 prove the claims made by Hunt,
the Bobgan’s, and Lanagan?<br />
<br />
So far, we have seen that neither the three autobiographical reports by Bill W. himself as to how he wrote the Twelve Steps--all of which predated the publishing of <em>'PASS IT ON'</em> in 1984 by about 30 years, nor the biographical material in <em>'PASS IT ON,' </em>state or clearly imply that Bill ". . . received the details of the 12 Steps through spirit dictation" (as Lanagan claimed using the words of T. A. McMahon). Consequently, the most Lanagan can come up with in an effort to prove his claim is to pose a question: “. . .
[G]uidance from what?”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[23]</span></span></span></a></span><br />
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The word “guidance” is used only once on pages 1-164 (i.e.,
in chapters 1-11) of the current, fourth edition of “the basic text for” the Society of Alcoholics Anonymous,
the Big Book.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" 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;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Here
is that occurrence: “To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right
ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the
strength to do the right thing.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_ednref25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" 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;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
So the Big Book speaks of the need to “earnestly pray . . . for guidance . . .”
Again, no mention here of seeking or receiving information from an evil spirit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you would like to see what “guidance” really was about
before early December 1938 when Bill W. wrote the Twelve Steps, I suggest you
check out the following resources:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dick B., “A.A.'s Meditation Roots: Article
13:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Look at ‘Meditation’ in Early
A.A.: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/meditation_roots_dsb.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/articles/meditation_roots_dsb.shtml</span></a>
(for background relating to the word “guidance.”)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous</i>: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/TheOxfordGroup&AlcoholicsAnonymous.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/TheOxfordGroup&AlcoholicsAnonymous.shtml</span></a>;<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/Akron.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/Akron.shtml</span></a>;<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dick B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good
Morning!: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation, and Early A.A.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/goodmorn.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/goodmorn.shtml</span></a>.
<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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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Dave Hunt, “God as You Conceive Him/Her/It”: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/0ak52c"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/0ak52c</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/13/2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “The
official A.A. biography of Wilson” to which Hunt refers here is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’: The Story of Bill Wilson and
How the A.A. Message Reached the World </i>(New York, N.Y.: Alcoholics
Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1984), as can be seen in his footnotes 17, and
22-24. However, he wrongly attributes the A.A. General Service
Conference-approved book to Ernest Kurtz, as can be seen clearly in his
footnote 17: “Kurtz, Pass It On; The Story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message
reached the world (Alcoholics Anonymous World Service, Inc., 1984), 102.” His
footnote 22 states: “Kurtz, 276-79,” even though the quote in the text of the
article and the page numbers in the footnote refer to the A.A. book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON.” </i>And footnotes 23 and 24,
both say “Ibid. . . .” referring back to footnote 22 which listed Kurtz as the
author of the A.A. book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON.’ </i>(“<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ibid.”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is Latin. It is a shortened form of “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ibidem” </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and means
“in the same place.”</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>It<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>is a term “used to provide an endnote
or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the preceding
endnote or footnote.” See the entry for “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ibid.</i>”
in Wikipedia: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibid"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibid</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">.;</span>
accessed 9/13/2015.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frequent
sloppiness in citing sources is common with Hunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another example: In footnote 28, Hunt
mentions Dick B.’s title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne Smith’s
Spiritual Workbook</i>—an early edition of what is today known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939</i>—but
fails to put a comma after “Dick B.”; fails to underline or put in italics the
book’s title; and fails to provide the place of publication for the book—all of
which are standard requirements in providing publication data for a book, as
can be seen, for example, in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago
Manual of Style.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Hunt’s insertion in brackets of the words “the A.A. manual” is misleading. A
look at pages 196-99, the section of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS
IT ON’ </i>from which Hunt’s quote is taken, make clear that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON’ </i>is discussing specifically
in that section, not the whole “A.A. manual,” but rather Bill’s writing of the
actual Twelve Steps, which appear early in chapter five of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The excerpt I have quoted here is found in a section of the article titled
“Occult Guidance.” See [Martin and Deidre Bobgan], “AA: Christian or Occult
Roots?” on the “PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries” website belonging to Martin
and Deidre Bobgan: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/gyp3ck"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/gyp3ck</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/13/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
John Lanagan, “Seances, Spirits, and 12 Steps”: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/i3cqjy"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/i3cqjy</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/13/2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lanagan’s footnote
12 reads: “PASS IT ON, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., pg. 275.” His
footnote 13 reads: “PASS IT ON, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., pg.
198.” And his footnote 14 reads: “T.A. McMahon, The Berean Call Newsletter,
March 1, 2002.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON,’ </i>197-98.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Merriam-Webster </i>online dictionary
gives the following definition for the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">biography</i>:
“the story of a real person's life written by someone other than that person.” </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biography"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biography</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/13/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
“William Griffith ‘Bill’ Wilson”: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/t6108p"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/t6108p</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/13/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Bill W., “A Fragment of History: Origin of the Twelve Steps,” in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A.A. Grapevine, </i>July 1953, 200-01.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[10]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Bill
W., “A Fragment of History,” 201.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[11]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Narrative Timeline of AA History</i>,
accumulated and ed. by Arthur S., Version 2014-03-10, page 30 of 134: </span><a href="http://hindsfoot.org/aatimeline.pdf"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://hindsfoot.org/aatimeline.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
accessed 9/16/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%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="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[12]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
In the current (2001) edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous </i>(affectionately known within A.A. as “the Big Book”), Step Two
reads: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.” See: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed. (New York City: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 2001), 59.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age </i>(New
York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1957, 1985), 166. On that
page, Bill W. states: “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,’ and in one place the expression ‘on our
knees’ was used.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON,’ </i>states:
“The very first draft of the Twelve Steps, as Bill wrote them that night has
been lost. This is an approximate reconstruction of the way he first set them
down: . . . ‘2. Came to believe that God could restore us to sanity.’” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON,’ </i>198.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In
the current (2001) edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i>, Step Three reads: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood
Him.</i>” See: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,
4<sup>th</sup> ed., 59.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[15]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>,
166. On that page, Bill W. states: “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,’ and in one place the
expression ‘on our knees’ was used.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS
IT ON,’ </i>states: “The very first draft of the Twelve Steps, as Bill wrote
them that night, has been lost. This is an approximate reconstruction of the
way he first set them down: . . . ‘3. Made a decision to turn our wills and our
lives over to the care and direction of God.’” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT ON,’ </i>198.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn16" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In
the current (2001) edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i>, Step Eleven reads: “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God <em>as we understood
Him</em>, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” See: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>,
4<sup>th</sup> ed., 59.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn17" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[17]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> See
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>,
166. On that page, Bill W. states: “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,’ and in one place the
expression ‘on our knees’ was used.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS
IT ON,’ </i>states: “The very first draft of the Twelve Steps, as Bill wrote
them that night, has been lost. This is an approximate reconstruction of the
way he first set them down: . . . ‘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.’” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT
ON,’ </i>198. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">By the time what Bill called
variously “a prepublication copy of the text and some of the stories,”
“mimeograph copies of the book,” “[e]ach mimeograph,” “the mimeograph issue
‘Alcoholics Anonymous,” and “mimeographs”—better known more recently as “the
Multilith Edition” and “the Original Manuscript”—had been produced and
circulated, the phrase “a Power greater than ourselves” had already replaced
the word “God” in Step Two, and the modifying phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” had already been added following the word
“God” in Step Three. That was not, however, the case with Step Eleven. In the
so-called “Original Manuscript,” Step Eleven read: “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.” See: “Chapter Five: HOW IT WORKS”
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Original Manuscript of ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS</i>: </span><a href="http://www.silkworth.net/originalmanuscript/chapter5.html"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.silkworth.net/originalmanuscript/chapter5.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/16/2015. The addition of the modifying phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” was not made until the very last moments
before the publication of the first edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous </i>in April 1939, when what Bill W. called “the
printer’s copy of the book” was produced from “one of the mimeographs, and in
Henry’s [Bill W.’s business partner and first “successful” New York “sponsee,”
Henry P.] clear handwriting all the corrections were transferred to it.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 169.
The older wording of Step Eleven—with no modifying phrase “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as we understood Him</i>” following the word “God”—may be seen in <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), ____.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[18]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PASS IT ON,’ </i>198.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[19]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 166.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[20]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “Bill
W. Speech, Texas State Convention, June 1954,” excerpted in the April 2014
issue of [the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A.A.</i>] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grapevine</i> Magazine: </span><a href="http://www.aagrapevine.org/feature/35758"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.aagrapevine.org/feature/35758</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/16/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="edn21" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn21" style="mso-endnote-id: edn21;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[21]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Chapter Five is titled “How It Works.” It is the chapter in which the Twelve
Steps are listed. They are found on pages 59-60 of the current (fourth, 2001)
edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn22" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[22]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> I
have retained enough of the context of Bill W.’s eyewitness report on how he
wrote the Twelve Steps to allow the reader to understand properly what Bill was
saying about the “mechanics” of how he wrote them. For the full text of what
Bill said, found on pages 159-62 of the A.A. General Service
Conference-approved book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, see: Bill [W.,] “How the Twelve Steps Were Born,”
September 1962 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The AA Grapevine</i>): <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://silkworth.net/pdfBillW/How-The-Twelve-Steps-Were-Born-Sep-1962.pdf"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://silkworth.net/pdfBillW/How-The-Twelve-Steps-Were-Born-Sep-1962.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/10/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn23" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[23]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Lanagan, “Seances, Spirits, and 12 Steps”: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/i3cqjy"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/i3cqjy</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/13/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn24" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[24]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
“. . . [T]his book [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>]
has become the basic text for our Society . . .” See Preface in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., xi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="edn25" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/Ken%20B%20Good%20Book%20Publishing%20Co%20%2009%2017%202015/How%20Bill%20Wilson%20Wrote%20the%20Twelve%20Steps%20%20Ken%20B%20%2009%2010%202015.docx" name="_edn25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" 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: 10pt;"><span style="color: white;">[25]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 70.</span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-64120109454901234642015-09-11T15:02:00.001-10:002015-09-11T17:34:44.867-10:00A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob's Involvement with Spiritualism and Some of "the Rest of the Story”<span data-offset-key="5sb74-0-0" data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0"><span data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0.0"></span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="5sb74-0-0" data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0"><span data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0.0">You have probably heard that A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr.
Bob were involved in spiritualism—at least at some points in their lives. Here
is some of "the rest of the story" from the A.A. General Service
Conference-approved book <i>DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5sb74-0-0" data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0"><span data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0.0">
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<span data-offset-key="5sb74-0-0" data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0"><span data-reactid=".35.1.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$5sb74.0:$5sb74-0-0.0">John and Elgie R. recalled that in
the late 1930’s, Doc [i.e., Dr. Bob] would talk for hours to a fellow named
Roland J., “who believed in anything that came down the pike when it came to
spiritualism. . . .” said Elgie. Roland had studied many faiths in his search
for sobriety, but never did stop drinking until he met Doc.</span></span><br />
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“I had several experiences with
Roland-----, his wife, Doc and Anne, and Ruth T----- in Toledo,”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" 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;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Elgie recalled.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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There is more, but in this article, I would like to make one
point in passing and share some of “the rest of the story” relating to this
topic. That point is that Roland J. lived in Toledo, Ohio, more than two hours
away from Akron, Ohio. And now here is some of “the rest of the story” from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“A lot of us believed in the
spiritual thing,” said Clarence S. “We’d go to Roland’s on a Sunday night. He’d
call in the spirits. It got spooky after a while—beyond what we should be
monkeying with. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Doc backed off, too.</b>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Dr. Bob’s son] Smitty agreed. “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They got away from Roland J-----</b> when
they started to get bad vibrations,” he said. “They felt it might be dangerous.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a similar feeling among <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Akron A.A.’s. “They were all against this
spiritualist thing,</b>” said Sue [Dr. Bob’s daughter].<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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Here is more of “the rest of the story” about Dr. Bob, again
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Paul S. . . . said of Dr. Bob, “At
this time [when Dr. Bob became connected with the Oxford Group in 1933], he
began his conscious search for truth through a concentrated study of the Bible
over two and one-half years before his meeting with Bill.”<o:p> </o:p></div>
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In addition to Dr. Bob’s “concentrated
study of the Bible,” which began in 1933 according to Paul S., here is Dr. Bob’s
own statement in the A.A. General Service Conference-approved pamphlet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous </i>about
that period of his Bible study, as well as his “excellent training” in the
Bible as a youngster in St. Johnsbury, Vermont:<o:p></o:p></div>
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We [Bill W. and Dr. Bob] had both
been associated with the Oxford Group,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" 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;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Bill in New York, for five months, and I in Akron, for two and a half years.
Bill had acquired their idea of service. I had not, but I had done an immense
amount of reading they had recommended. I had refreshed my memory of the Good
Book, and I had had excellent training in that as a youngster.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" 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;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="color: white;">
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Dr. Bob’s son Smitty also stated in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>: “He [Dr. Bob] read the Bible from
cover to cover three times and could quote favorite passages verbatim.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" 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;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
And Clarence S. (founder of A.A.’s third group in the world in Abby G.’s home
in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 11, 1939) stated about Dr. Bob: “‘(Dr. Bob was
always positive about his faith, Clarence said. If someone asked him a question
about the program, his usual response was: “What does it say in the Good Book”?’”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_edn7" 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><o:p></o:p></div>
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As Paul Harvey, the famous radio personality, used to say: “And
now you know [some of] the rest of the story.”<br />
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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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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Toledo, Ohio, is about 137.5 miles from
Akron, Ohio, using today’s Interstate I-80 W (2 hours 9 minutes at today’s speeds):
<a href="http://mcaf.ee/8ioc3k"><span style="color: white;">http://mcaf.ee/8ioc3k</span></a>; accessed 9/11/2015.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The original name of the group Lutheran minister Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman and a
couple of associates founded in the autumn of 1922 was “A First Century
Christian Fellowship.” The group was called “the Oxford Group” for the first
time in September 1928 by the press in South Africa. When Mr. Firestone invited
Dr. Buchman and his entourage to give a series of meetings in Akron in January
1933, the printed invitations had on them the group’s name “A First Century
Christian Fellowship.” See: (1) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘PASS IT
ON;’ </i>(2) Garth Lean, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frank Buchman: A
Life</i>; and (3) 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), 17-18 fn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/blank_quirks.html#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <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), 11-12.<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-9061386.post-52971211330764718092015-09-09T13:44:00.001-10:002015-09-09T13:44:06.290-10:00A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob, "First Things First," and Matthew 6:33"([A.A. cofounder] Dr. Bob was always positive about his faith, Clarence [S., founder of A.A.'s third group in the world in Cleveland on May 11, 1939] said. If someone asked him a question about the program, his usual response was: 'What does it say in the Good Book?' Suppose he was asked, 'What’s all this "First Things First"?' Dr. Bob would be ready with the appropriate quotation: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.')" [= Matt 6:33 (KJV). Source: The A.A. General Service Conference-approved book "DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers," 144.] Get the facts! "A.A. History: The Rest of the Story, with Dick B." <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.AAHistoryChristianRecovery.com%2F&h=pAQGKEy0uAQGqSENKKr8x_sjyjNTUUXxqGlstJ6foAqHFgQ&enc=AZNiHgMwq5XgFaCe-kcPbgxs8BeguU_lzyayxI9ort96ayuOwbHpAxDNuVVotDOKlqNncJaGldmfjGBx-qdUW_iCQyiZ5TQsuGTLDw-WgpWn-L-q2Walv4_ZWddSkvZg_JjXIiZbw9Vsd6ANPnsoCeJ6EGOmQWNl4HpDy3B5tyNZAUtrQY8L31-Ty6e7CPPeuDw&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.AAHistoryChristianRecovery.com.</a> Ken B. :)Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-72566427092059497682015-09-06T23:35:00.001-10:002015-09-06T23:35:59.680-10:00“The Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury: Part Four
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By Ken B.<o:p></o:p></div>
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian, </i>St. Johnsbury, Vt., Friday, Mar. 5, 1875<o:p></o:p></div>
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Free Baptist Church . . . Rev. O. Roys, pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Methodist Church . . . Rev. D. E. Miller, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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North Cong’l Church . . . Rev. Chas. M. Southgate, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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South Cong’l Church . . . Rev. E. T. Fairbanks, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Church of the Messian, Universalist . . . Rev. B. M.
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Baptist Church . . . Rev. J. H. Marsh, Pastor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Union meeting at the South Church tonight, Thursday, at
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Gospel meeting, conducted by laymen at Avenue Hall, Sunday
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Gospel meetings will be held at Lyndon, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, and at Lyndonville, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of next week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Great Awakening</b>.</div>
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The religious awakening in this place and vicinity increased
very much during the past week. There were such indications of the power of the
Spirit upon the hearts of men, that in their extremity the good people of this
town called upon their brethren in Massachusetts, who did so much two weeks
ago, to come up and help them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Messrs. Remington,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" 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;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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Moore<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and <o:p></o:p></div>
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Winslow,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
responded on Saturday, and brought with them <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Bridgman of Northampton.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" 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;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The people received them gladly; also the truth which they
so plainly and forcibly presented. The audiences grew in magnitude from the
first, and the interest revived at once and increased from the first. On the
Sabbath they held four meetings, all fully attended. In the evening 950 people
were gathered in the largest church in town. On Monday, a very stormy evening,
a thousand people crowded the church. At the close of this meeting the interest
was so great, so many were in tears and asking what they must do to be saved,
that these workers from abroad were induced to remain another day. This
announcement was received with demonstrations of joy. The Tuesday afternoon
meeting in the church was, like its predecessors, very precious.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At half-past four, by invitation of the Messrs. Fairbanks,
these Christian laymen went down to the scale shops, and work being suspended,
all the employees gathered in the large machine shop, and there for over an
hour the shops resounded with the voice of prayer and supplication, and rang
with the praises of God. A strange but glorious scene. In the evening, the
largest audience we have ever seen gathered under one roof in this place, came
out to the Gospel Meeting. Every foot of space in aisle, platform, gallery and
pulpit, was literally packed with human beings, until over eleven hundred
people were inside the South Church. This meeting was mainly given up to those
who had lately found Christ, and to an expression from those who wished to
become Christians. It was a meeting that seemed to melt every heart. Young men
and women, middle aged people and children, stood up before that great
audience, and either said they had already found the pearl of great price, or
were seeking it with all their hearts. On invitation, a hundred and twenty-five
enquirers went down into the vestry for religious conversion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of the results of this awakening, eternity only can
determine. The present joy is unbounded. Families are united; parents see their
children coming to the Savior, and children in a few instances have rejoiced
over parents renewed and in their right minds. Of the deep feeling which
pervaded the meetings, the earnest prayers and tearful eyes, we can give no
idea on paper. Such scenes were never witnessed here before. Great was the
deprivation of those who could not be present. While the work is all the
Lord’s, and to him shall be all the praise, most gratefully do the good people
in this community remember the self-sacrificing labors of the brethren from
Massachusetts. In the most common sense, practical way, did they present the
cause of their Master; and going about from shop to shop and store to store,
and in taking them by the hand, did they try to lead men to that higher life
which shall make them better here and happy hereafter. If it is truly better to
give than to receive, and it is, how much those men must enjoy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From other towns about us the good news comes in. Concord,
Burke, Glover, Barton, Lyndon—in all these towns there is more or less
interest; and some of our people who have been blessed so greatly and received
so much, are going out at the call of these towns and doing work for the
Master.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" 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;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
May the good work go forward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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East Concord.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>The revival which has been going on here for the past few
weeks is still in progress.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Vermont News</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The religious meetings at Barton continue, and a good degree
of interest is still manifested.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Gospel Meetings held the 18<sup>th</sup>, 19<sup>th</sup>
and 20<sup>th</sup> insts., were will attended. A great degree of interest was
manifested by those in attendance, and on the whole, the meetings may be
regarded not only as profitable, but a success. The interest still continues
unabated.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>. . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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A revival has been progressing for several weeks at East
Charleston and over 30 persons have been converted.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%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="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;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This
is “R. K. Remington” (Robert K. Remington/Robert Knight Remington) of Fall
River, Massachusetts. For more on “R. K. Remington,” see: “Robert Knight
Remington” in <i>Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern
Massachusetts</i>, Volume 1 (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1912), 173-75: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/kvt8cp"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/kvt8cp</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 8/31/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
This is “H. M. Moore” (Henry M. Moore/Henry Martyn Moore) of Boston,
Massachusetts. H. M. Moore (a member of the State of Massachusetts committee of
the Young Men’s Christian Association beginning in 1871) and lay preacher K. A.
Burnell of Illinois launched the Gospel canvasses of the New England states
beginning in 1871 in Massachusetts. See, for example: W. R. Moody, “A Truly
Successful Merchant Prince” in W. R. Moody, ed., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Record of Christian Work</i> vol. XXV (East Northfield, Mass.: W. R.
Moody, 1906), 229-31: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/k3n5u6"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/k3n5u6</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/6/2015. Here’s a relevant quote from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Record of Christian Work</i>, vol. 25: “While Mr. Moore was interested
in the material interests of the Association [i.e., of the Y. M. C. A.] it was
preeminently the spiritual opportunities of the work which appealed to him.
Several friends, sharing his devotion and under his leadership, frequently
accompanied him on evangelistic missions to different Associations or churches
in New England. These laymen were Messrs. R. K. Remington, F. O. Winslow, K. A.
Burnell, and George H. Shaw.” [page 230]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This
is “F. O. Winslow” (Francis O. Winslow/<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Francis Olney Winslow), 1844-1926, of Norwood, Massachusetts. He was a very
successful tanner and manufacturer at Winslow Brothers in Norwood; and “an heir
to a fortune derived from the tannery business begun by his father, George
Winslow. . . . Friends and neighbors often referred to F. O. Winslow as ‘Mr.
Norwood.’ He was a leader in business, investments, civic affairs, town
government, state politics, philanthropy, education, history, and the arts.”
From: John M. Grove, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Images of America:
Norwood </i>(Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 1997, 2000), 90. See also:
Patricia J. Fanning, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Norwood: A History </i>(Charleston,
SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002): </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/rca80t"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/rca80t</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">; accessed 9/6/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
This is S. E. Bridgman (Sidney E. Bridgman/Sidney Edwin Bridgman) of Northampton,
Massachusetts. He owned a very successful bookstore in Northampton which
eventually came to be known as “S. E. Bridgman & Co.” For more on S. E.
Bridgman, see, for example: “53. Sidney Edwin” in Burt Nichols Bridgman and Joseph
Clark Bridgman, comp., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogy of the
Bridgman Family: Descendants of James Bridgman. 1636-1894 </i>(Hyde Park,
Mass.: n.p., 1894), 43-44: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/0mw3ab"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/0mw3ab</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">; accessed 9/6/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This
accounts marks the beginning of residents of St. Johnsbury—having been blessed
by “the Massachusetts brethren” and the member of the state committee of the
Vermont Young Men’s Christian Association who reached out to them through the “Gospel
Meetings”—going to other towns in the area by invitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury%20%20Part%20Four%20%20Friday%20Mar.%205%201875%20issue%20of%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20St.%20Johnsbury%20Vt.%20%2009%2006%202015.docx" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-03-05/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-03-05/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/6/2015.</span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-89619599961370640972015-09-06T16:31:00.000-10:002015-09-06T16:31:32.359-10:00“The Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury: Part Three
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By Ken B.<o:p></o:p></div>
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
rights reserved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The February 26,
1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury
Caledonian</i>, Page 3<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we continue to look at the considerable attention given by
the local newspaper to the various events relating to “the Great Awakening” of
1875 in St. Johnsbury, we now come to the February 26, 1875, issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>, the third
issue to discuss “the Great Awakening”:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Column One (on the left-hand side)<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“Local and State News”</div>
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“Union meeting at North Church
tonight.”<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“See notice of gospel meetings to
be held in the various towns, time and place of which are given in another
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“Remember the union meeting at the
North Church this (Thursday) evening. The one on Tuesday evening was very
largely attended and deeply interesting.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The County Ministers’ Meeting
will be held next Monday morning, March 1, at Free Baptist Hall, at 9:30.
Subject: A synopsis of the distinguishing principles of each denomination
belonging to the association.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“The Religious Awakening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“This portion of Vermont is being
stirred religiously as it has been before in many years. From the day the
committee of young men began their canvass, the first of January, until the
present, the interest has not ceased, but rather increased. In almost every
town this committee has visited there has been a revival, and the interest
seems to be spreading into surrounding towns. Notwithstanding the protracted
meetings held in this place now for three or four weeks, the last meeting on
Tuesday evening was quite as fully attended as any for two weeks past and of
marked interest. From Newbury, where meetings are now being held, glorious news
comes of salvation to many souls. The same report reaches us from Irasburg,
Barton, Lowell, Bradford: while Lyndon, Burke, Danville, Barnet and Concord,
are reaching out their hands for a blessing. In several of these towns gospel
meetings are now being held, and in others they are to be held during the
coming weeks. Surely the Lord is doing great things for us as a State and as
communities, whereof we are glad.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Gospel Meetings.</div>
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We learn that the gospel meetings
will be continued in this place, conforming as nearly as may be to the
following plan:</div>
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Union Meetings:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thursday, Feb. 25, N. Church<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>7:30 P. M.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunday, 28<sup>th</sup>, Avenue
Hall,<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1:30 ‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunday, ‘ ‘ South Church.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>3:00 ‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunday, ‘ ‘<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘ ‘<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>6:30
‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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Monday, March 1, ‘ ‘<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>2:00 ‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘ ‘<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘ ‘<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘ ‘<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>7:00 ‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other Meetings:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Friday, young
converts’ and enquirers’ meetings, at all the churches,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7:30 ‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saturday, young
peoples’ union meeting, at the Methodist church,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7:00 ‘ ‘<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunday, prayer meeting
at the South Church<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9:00 A. M.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Monday, young
converts’ and enquirers’ meeting, South Church<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4:30 P. M.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Messrs. H. M.
Moore and F. O. Winslow of Boston, and R. K. Remington of Fall River, are
expected to be present and conduct the meetings through Sunday and Monday. All
are cordially invited to come and hear.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Meetings in Other Towns.<o:p></o:p></div>
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East Burke,
Friday evening, Feb. 26, and through Saturday and Sunday following.<o:p></o:p></div>
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West Concord,
Tuesday evening, March 2, and Wednesday and Thursday following.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Danville,
Friday evening, March 5, and through Satuday and Sunday following.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lyndon, Monday
evening, March 8, and Tuesday and Wednesday following.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
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These meetings
will be under the auspices of the Committee appointed by the State Convention
of Y. M. C. A. and churches of Vermont, who work in union with the local
pastors, and by their invitation.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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- - - - - - <o:p> </o:p></div>
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“Lyndon.</div>
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Union meetings
are being held at Lyndon Corner, and there are indications of the presence of
the Spirit. An excellent union meeting was held at <o:p></o:p></div>
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Column Four
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Lyndonville
Sabbath evening, and considerable feeling manifested. Some Christian workers
from St. Johnsbury have given their brethren here a helping hand. Men are
thoughtful, and without doubt some are asking themselves at least, ‘What must I
do to be saved?’”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%202015.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" 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;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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There are several references to
“union meetings” in the various statements quoted above from the February 26,
1875, issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury
Caledonian</i>. The “union meetings” were one aspect of the preparations for
the events that became “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury. Here is
a fuller statement about those preparations as described in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Minutes of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of
the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont,
Held at Bennington, June, 1875</i>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Among many of
the Christians of the churches of this town [of St. Johnsbury, Vermont] there
had, for a year or two past, been an increasing desire for the presence of the
Holy Spirit, and when the spring of 1874 went past without marked spiritual
results there were not a few souls who groaned within themselves, and said,
also, here and there, that they could not, God willing, be content that another
year should be as the last. At the May (1874) meeting of the Caledonia
Association there was an expression of the same feeling, and the subject of
revival effort was proposed and adopted as the topic for the meetings of the
autumn. As some of the members of the Association met casually during the
summer, the theme of conversation uppermost was: “What shall be done to save
souls? Meanwhile the same fire burned in the hearts of laymen and Christian
women. Notably some of those whose husbands were not professors of religion
besought earnestly the throne of grace. After the plan of the canvass of the
Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association and the Vermont churches was
matured a praying band was formed, comprising a few devout Christian men, who
met very quietly for two objects: first, that God’s blessing might accompany
the Gospel workers elsewhere; and secondly, that there might be graciously
manifested the reviving and converting power of the Holy Spirit. During the
month of December there developed, chiefly in the east side of the village, an
interest, slight as compared to what followed, in connection with the labors of
Rev. Mr. Marsh of the Baptist church<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%202015.docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and of Rev. Mr. DeWitt, an evangelist who assisted in the work for a few days.
But the clouds, thus for a moment at the point of rifting, seemed to close
again. With the week of prayer the five evangelical churches of the village [of
St. Johnsbury], <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">viz</i>: North and South
Congregational,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%202015.docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><sup>,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%202015.docx" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" 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;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></sup>
Baptist, Methodist<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%202015.docx" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" 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;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and Free Baptist,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%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="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;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
with remarkable concord began to hold union meetings twice weekly, which
meetings were continued with but slight interruption for four months. Yet
during the first month it could not be said that there was much visible
increase of interest. There was, however, increasing earnestness among
Christians, and a centering of hope in the approaching Gospel meetings and much
prayer was offered that they might become a means of great blessing. Saturday
evening, February 6<sup>th</sup>, these meetings began. They were conducted by
Messrs. Davis of Burlington, Cook of Ludlow, and Moore and Remington of
Massachusetts, assisted by others.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%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><o:p></o:p></div>
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The February 26, 1875, edition of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i> quoted
above also spoke about “. . . the Committee appointed by the State Convention
of Y. M. C. A. and churches of Vermont, . . .” Here is more information about
the committee and the convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association which
played vital roles in “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The state convention of the Young Men's Christian
associations of Vermont was held at Norwich, last week, the 19th and 20<sup>th</sup>
[of November 1874].</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Besides a good number from the associations in
this state,</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">R. K. Remington of Fall River, and</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">H. M. Moore of Boston, and</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">M. B. Critchett and</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Allen Folger of Concord, N. H,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">members of the executive committees of those two
states, were present, and by their stirring words added much to the interest of
the meetings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thursday morning was spent in a prayer meeting. In
the afternoon the following officers for the year ensuing were elected.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">President—Rev. S. P. Cook, of Ludlow.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Vice Presidents—Rev. Wm. Sewell of Norwich,
and Rev. Mr. Rockwell of Windsor.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Secretary—W. E. Hazen of Woodstock.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Assistant Secretary—A. S. Hopkins, of St.
Johnsbury.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Railroad Secretary—L. A. Smith, of Norwich.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Executive Committee— </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Rev. S. P. Cook, Ludlow;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Geo. E. Davis. Burlington;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">A. J. Howe, Montpelier;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">H. B. Olds, Norwich;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">W. R. Hazen, Woodstock;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">B. K. Chase, Rutland;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Franklin Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury;</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">W. P. Dillingham, Waterbury.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The executive committee have a meeting at
Montpelier, Dec. 2d, to complete arrangements for future operations similar to
such as have been carried on in some other states. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Geo. E. Davis, from Burlington, said a glorious
revival work had been begun in Essex, and that it has already reached Winooski
and Burlington. In Burlington meetings are being held every evening, and great
results are looked for. He urged a more complete consecration of Christians,
and though [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sic</i>] the Lord would not
wait long if they were ready to work. In St. Johnsbury the association meetings
have been changed to a young people’s meeting. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">R. C. Morse, secretary of the international
executive committee, spoke of the work going on in other states. Much work is
now done by means of a state canvass by committees chosen for that purpose. . .
. He thought the practical question for this convention was, how shall this
state organization be formed in Vermont?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">R. K. Remington of Fall River, thought all should
realize that the association is a child of the church and that the work is of
Christ. He appealed for a reading room, or some other suitable place for young
men to spend their evenings; and urged that “we get off our cold seats and get
warm ourselves.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Allen Folger, secretary of New Hampshire state
committee, spoke of the relation of the churches to associations. The state
work in New Hampshire had been successful not through the strength but through
the weakness of those who carried it on.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">On motion a state executive committee of eight was
chosen to canvass the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Friday morning session was opened by a prayer and
praise meeting, led by Rev. Mr. Lougee of Tunbridge. . . . Before the
convention adjourned, pledges of over 300 days’ time and $400 in money were
made towards carrying on a canvass of the state and holding meetings in most of
the preminent [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sic</i>] towns. It was
thought best to commence this work early in January.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%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 lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; 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;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><br clear="all" />
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February 26, 1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St.
Johnsbury Caledonian</i>, Page 3: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
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[Baptist] church was organized in St. Johnsbury, in 1874, fostered by the State
Convention, and befriended in special manner by Levi K. Fuller, of Brattleboro.
A chapel was dedicated, November 30, 1874, and a deed of parsonage and the lot,
on which both parsonage and the chapel stands, given by Mr. Fuller. Rev. E. T.
Sanford became its first pastor, maintaining that relation for fourteen years.
. . . Mr. Sanford was succeeded, in 1891, by Geo. Webster, one year; . . .” See
Henry Crocker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of the Baptists in
Vermont</i> (Bellows Falls, VT: The P. H. Goble Press, 1913), 324-25: </span><a href="https://archive.org/stream/historyofbaptist01croc#page/n359/mode/2up"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">https://archive.org/stream/historyofbaptist01croc#page/n359/mode/2up</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Baptist church of
St. Johnsbury</i> was organized by William Bacon, of New York city, with
thirteen members, June 20, 1874. Rev. J. H. Marsh was the first pastor. The
church building was erected in 1875. . . . The society now has 150 members,
with Rev. E. T. Sanford, pastor.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gazetteer
of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT. 1764-1887: Part First</i>, comp. and pub.
by Hamilton Child (Syracuse, N. Y.: The Syracuse Journal Company, 1887), 344: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015. (Italics in original). The February 26, 1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>, Page 3,
states: “Rev. J. H. Marsh, Pastor”: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Johnsbury</i>—the present North church—was organized April 7, 1825, being a
colony from the First Congregational church, which was located on the hill west
of the Center Village. Nineteen persons—six males and thirteen females—having
obtained the consent of the First church, were constituted a separate church,
under the name of the Second Congregational church in St. Johnsbury.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties,
VT. 1764-1887: Part First</i>, comp. and pub. by Hamilton Child, 342: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015. (Italics in original). The February 26, 1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>, Page 3,
states: “Rev. E. T. Fairbanks, Pastor”: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
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organized October 16, 1851, and consisted of sixty-one members, who were
dismissed for that purpose from the Second church [which later became known as
“North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury”]. The large and commodious
meeting-house in the south part of the village of St. Johnsbury, was built by
contributions from both societies, for the use of the South church and
congregation, with the provision that it should be the property of the church,
and the pews rented for the support of the gospel ministry therein. On the 14<sup>th</sup>
of January, 1852, this house was dedicated; and on the same day the Rev. Sumner
G. Clapp was installed as pastor of the church. The present pastor is Rev.
Edward T. Fairbanks.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gazetteer of
Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT. 1764-1887: Part First</i>, comp. and pub. by
Hamilton Child, 343: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
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Johnsbury </i>was organized by Rev. S. Chamberlain, with thirty-four members,
in 1856. Rev. Alonzo Webster was the first pastor. In 1858 a church building
was erected, and the present house was built in 1883.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT. 1764-1887: Part First</i>,
comp. and pub. by Hamilton Child, 344: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/j0oyvl</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">; accessed 9/5/2015.
(Italics in original). The February 26, 1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>, Page 3, states: “Rev. D. E. Miller,
Pastor”: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St%20Johnsbury%20Part%20Three%20%20February%2026%201875%20issue%20of%20the%20St%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%2009%2005%202015.docx" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The
February 26, 1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St.
Johnsbury Caledonian</i>, Page 3, states: “Free Baptist Church.—Meetings in
hall of Caledonian Block—(Rev. O. Roys, pastor.)”: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-26/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015. For more on Rev. Orzo Roys of the Free-Will Baptist Church,
see G. A. Burgess and J. T. Ward, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free
Baptist Cyclopaedia. Historical and Biographical </i>([Chicago:] Free Baptist
Cyclopaedia Co., 1886 and 1889), 581: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/7109wk"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/7109wk</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">; accessed 9/5/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont,
Held at Bennington, June, 1875. Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Vermont
Domestic Missionary Society, and Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Vermont
Education Society </i>(Montpelier: J. & J. Poland, 1875), 29; </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/b5f1xq"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/b5f1xq</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
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November 28, 1874, page 2:</span><span lang="EN"> </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/0gfqa9"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/0gfqa9</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">; accessed 9/6/2015.</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-9061386.post-2387216509385307862015-09-06T14:48:00.001-10:002015-09-08T11:37:41.411-10:00"We Never Apologize to Anyone for Depending upon Our Creator." ["Alcoholics Anonymous," 4th ed., 68]<div align="center">
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I recently published an article titled "<a href="http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2015/08/christ-cross-and-holy-ghost-in-big-book_30.html" target="_blank">Christ, the Cross, and the Holy Ghost in the Big Book? Yep</a>." In that article, I presented a portion of what may be one of the earliest--if not the earliest--versions of "Bill's Story," chapter one in "Alcoholics Anonymous" ("the Big Book.") My publication of that article upset a man named "John," and he posted on Facebook a "critique" of my article. I responded. Then he responded. Here is my reply to his second post about my article. (And yes, I did first post my reply directly on the Facebook thread where the interaction has been going on.)</div>
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"<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$text0/=1$text0/=010">John, in my response to your comments about the article I wrote recently, "Christ, the Cross, and the Holy Ghost in the Big Book? Yep" (</span><a data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$range0/=10" dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmauihistorian.blogspot.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fchrist-cross-and-holy-ghost-in-big-book_30.html&h=cAQF1agco" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/.../christ-cross-and...</a><span data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end/=1$text0/=010">), I quoted from or referenced the following pieces of A.A.</span></span><span data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".76.1:4:1:$comment957004891022593_960959017293847/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end/=1$text0/=010"> General Service Conference-approved literature: (1) "Alcoholics Anonymous," 4th ed., four times (A.A.'s proposed solution to overcoming the problem of alcoholism, 25; the front cover of the dust jacket of the hardback; the Preface; the Foreword to Fourth Edition); (2) "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions" (Foreword); (3) "DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers" (131); (4) 'PASS IT ON' (171); and (5) "The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous" (Item # P-53), twice (13, 14). You, on the other hand, made one reference to "The program of Alcoholics Anonymous as contained in the first 164 pages," and quoted the five words "'God as we understood Him'" found in Steps 3 and 11 once. You: (1) characterized the nine specific references I made to A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature as "item[s] of minutiae" and as "peripheral information surrounding the fellowship;" and (2) implied that my quotations and references were "obscure reference[s];" and that I was one of the "you people" whom you accused of "introducing at meetings a revisionist version of the A.A. program that features Jesus Christ as its driving force." You stated: "Mr. [B.], I do not choose to respond to each item of minutiae that you crammed into your 1000 word rebuttal paragraph." In fact, you answered none of the points I made and offered zero evidence for your assertions. I'm focused on carrying the message to alcoholics and addicts who still suffer by sharing with them the roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in early A.A.'s astonishing success--as recorded in A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature and other authoritative sources, and by providing the publication data for those sources so that people can verify what I am sharing for themselves, if they so choose. Ken B. :)"</span></span></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-9061386.post-42043122549560638822015-09-05T11:56:00.000-10:002015-09-05T11:56:10.916-10:00“The Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury: Part Two
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The February 19,
1875, Edition of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury
Caledonian</i> Newspaper<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" 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;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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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Here are reports from the February 19, 1875, edition of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i> newspaper about
the second week of “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury:<o:p> </o:p><br />
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Column One (left-hand side)<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Local and State News”<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“Union meeting at the North Church
tonight. [= North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some friends of Wm. Robinson [whose
situation was discussed at length in the February 12, 1875, issue] have paid
his fine, and he has gone to work at his trade with the Messrs. Lairds [sp?] a
happy and to all appearance a changed man. Changed and renew by Divine grace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have faith in God. Jesus says: “God
sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through him might be saved.” The above is a copy of large placards put in
places of resort in this town.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is intended to continue the
union meetings at the North Church, though we do not learn the plan. There will
probably be three or four union meetings a week, announcements of which will be
made every evening. On Saturday evening there is always a union meeting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Religious Awakening</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The union meetings in this place
have been continued during the present week, with marked religious interest. On
Tuesday evening some twenty or more, who had not previously arisen, asked an
interest in the prayers of Christians. The next union meeting will be at the
North Church this (Thursday) evening, at half-past seven. Mr. Langworthy of
Boston<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
is expected to be present. Mr. Sturgis of Boston, who has led the last two
meetings, returned home last night. Notwithstanding the inclement weather,
these meetings are largely attended, people driving in from miles around. As to
the results, all admit that “It is the Lord’s doings, and it is marvelous in
our eyes.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The “Mr. Sturgis of Boston” mentioned above was <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Russell Sturgis, Jr., president of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Boston. </span>He was “. . . a vice president of
the American Institute of Architects, president of the Boston Society of
Architects, and architect of the Hawthorne Monument at Salem.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Another source
discussing “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury had this to say about
Russell Sturgis, Jr.:</span><o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">About the middle of February Russell Sturgis Jr., President of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Boston, visited St. Johnsbury and conducted
meetings for two or three days. He addressed himself chiefly to Christians and
incited them . . . A few words from him to the students of the [St. Johnsbury] academy
were very effective. . . .</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" 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;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And here is some further background about Russell Sturgis,
Jr.; H. M. Moore;<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><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;">[5]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a> and
F. O. Winslow—all from Massachusetts and all involved in “the Great Awakening”
of 1875 in St. Johnsbury:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This [State of Massachusetts] committee [of
the Y.M.C.A.] was organized in 1871, and has been uniformly composed of
successful business men, who were leaders in their own churches. Mr. Henry M.
Moore, actively identified with Mr. Moody in his educational and religious
work, and highly honored among Christians of every name, has from the start had
a guiding hand and has thrice been and is now chairman. The late Russell Sturgis
[, Jr.], Oliver H. Durrell and James H. Eaton, representing three leading
denominations and widely known, were also long among its leaders . . . <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The present members of the state
committee are: H. M. Moore, chairman, Somerville; . . . F. O. Winslow, Norwood—all
able men, strong in their churches and leaders in all good works.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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="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;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Russell Sturgis,
Jr., </span>was president of the International Convention of the Young Men’s
Christian Associations in the United States and British Provinces in Toronto,
Ontario, July 12-16, 1876.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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>
And he had at least three articles published about the Young Men’s Christian
Associations:<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]-->Russell
Sturgis, Jr., “The Boston Young Men’s Christian Association” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Granite Monthly. A New Hampshire
Magazine</i>, Vol. VII. July and August, 1884. Nos. 7 & 8 (Concord, N. H.:
John N. McClintock and Company, n.d.), 249-58<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/4g2wns"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white;">http://mcaf.ee/4g2wns</span></span></a>;
accessed 9/4/2015.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Sturgis, Jr., “The Young Men’s Christian Associations of Massachusetts” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire
Magazine Devoted to History</i>, Vol. VII. September and October, 1884. Nos. 9
and 10 (Concord, N.H.: John N. McClintock, n.d.), 302-06: <a href="http://mcaf.ee/106ong"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white;">http://mcaf.ee/106ong</span></span></a>;
accessed 9/4/2015.</div>
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<!--[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]-->Russell
Sturgis, Jr., “Young Men’s Christian Associations” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine</i>, Vol. IX. January and
February, 1886. Nos. I., II.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(Concord,
N. H.: John N. McClintock, 1886), 17-30: <a href="http://mcaf.ee/n4jlbh"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white;">http://mcaf.ee/n4jlbh</span></span></a>; accessed 9/4/2015.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the reasons the Young Men’s Christian Association in
Massachusetts generally, and in Boston specifically, often played an important
role in the YMCA’s activities in New England was that Boston was nearly the
first, if not the first, association formed in the United States.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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="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;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a><br clear="all" />
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>. Volume,
February 19, 1875, Image 3 (= page 3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-19/ed-1/seq-3/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-19/ed-1/seq-3/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Although no mention has so far come to light elsewhere showing whether a “Mr.
Langworthy of Boston” did come to St. Johnsbury to participate in one or more
of the ongoing “Gospel meetings” during 1875, it is fairly likely that the man
mentioned, who seems to have been a well-recognized figure, was Rev. Isaac P.
Langworthy, D.D. (His full name was “Isaac Pendleton Langworthy.” He was also
called “I. P. Langworthy” in the literature of the day.) A graduate of the
Divinity School of Yale College (Class of 1841), he helped organize in that
year a Congregational church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and became its first
pastor. He was chaplain of the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. And later, for 25
years, he was associated with the Congregational House of the American Congregational
Union, located in Boston, involved with the library, the treasury, and the
Secretaryship of the Congregational Association. [For more on Rev. Isaac P.
Langworthy, see, for example: (a) Albert Hale Plumb, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memorial, Rev. Isaac P. Langworthy, 1806-1888</i>: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/sgxlpq"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/sgxlpq</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/3/2015; and (b) “Isaac Pendleton Langworthy. Papers” at The New York
Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/wjdlae"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/wjdlae</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
accessed 9/3/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “News
from the Classes” section (pp. 518ff.): Entry: “1881.” In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine</i>. Vol. XXI. September, 1912. No. 81.
(Boston, Mass.: The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine Association, 1912, 1913), page
530: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/ps5zn3"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/ps5zn3</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/4/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; 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; font-size: x-small;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Report on the State of the Churches”</span> in <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Minutes of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the General Convention of
Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont, Held at Bennington, June,
1875. Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society,
and Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Vermont Education Society</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Montpelier: J. & J. M. Poland, Steam Printers, 1875), 27-38. </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/jrgle7"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/jrgle7</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Henry
Martyn (“H. M.”) Moore was one of the Y. M. C. A. lay leaders from
Massachusetts who led the first “Gospel meetings” in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on
February 6-8, 1875, which marked the beginning of “the Great Awakening” of 1875
in St. Johnsbury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “The
State Executive Committee of Massachusetts and Rhode Island” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Christian World, being the first of the
month number of The Congregationalist</i>. Volume LXXXVI, Number 24, Saturday,
15 June 1901 (Boston: W. L. Greene, 1901), 961: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/ejcmg2"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/ejcmg2</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">; accessed 9/5/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “List
of the International Conventions in the United States and British Provinces” in
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The People’s Cyclopedia of Universal
Knowledge, . . . the Whole Brought Down to the Year 1883</i>, ed. by W. H. De
Puy, Vol. III (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1879), 1989: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/0rw4n7"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/0rw4n7</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Volume%20%20February%2019%20%201875%20%20Image%203%20=%20page%203%20%2009%2001%202015.docx" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “The
first American Association [of the Y. M. C. A.] was organized in Cincinnati in
1848; Dec. 9, 1851, the first society in Canada was organized in Montreal; and
on Dec. 29, 1851, the Boston Association was formed; June 30, 1852, the
association in New York was organized, and during the same year 10 others,
including Washington and Baltimore, were organized.” See: “List of Triennial
Conferences of Young Men’s Christian Associations of All Lands” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The People’s Cyclopedia of Universal
Knowledge, . . . the Whole Brought Down to the Year 1883</i>, ed. by W. H. De
Puy, Vol. III (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1879), 1989: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/0rw4n7"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/0rw4n7</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 9/5/2015.</span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-90248792723995684842015-08-31T20:34:00.001-10:002015-08-31T20:34:41.631-10:00"The Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury, Part One<div style="text-align: center;">
(According to
articles in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i>
newspaper)<o:p></o:p></div>
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By Ken B.<o:p></o:p></div>
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© 2015 Anonymous. All
rights reserved<o:p></o:p></div>
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Part One</div>
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The February 12,
1875, Issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury
Caledonian</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
When my dad (Dick B.) and I made our second research trip to
Vermont in June 2008, we spent eight days doing research in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont. It is the town in which A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob was born on August 8,
1879. And he received his strong Christian upbringing there until he graduated
from St. Johnsbury Academy in the summer of 1898. After he graduated from the
academy, he left the state to go to Dartmouth College in Hanover, New
Hampshire. He soon thereafter descended into the abyss of alcoholism, where he
remained until he finally got sober in June 1935, through the help of God and
A.A. cofounder Bill W.<o:p> </o:p><br />
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The St. Johnsbury of Dr. Bob’s youth was an amazing place—largely
because of what was called by a number of sources “the Great Awakening” of 1875
in St. Johnsbury. My dad and I wrote our title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: white;"><strong>Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His
Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont</strong></span></span></a></i> after
our initial research trip to St. Johnsbury in October 2007. We based the book
on our early historical discoveries there, combined with follow-on research
done in books and Internet sources. In our book, we provided the testimony of a
number of sources as to the nature and magnitude of the impact of “the Great
Awakening” on St. Johnsbury. Those sources included:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<!--[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;">Minutes of the Eighty-First Annual Meeting
of the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont,
Held at Barton</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">June, 1876</i>.<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;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->John
E. Nutting, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Becoming the United Church of
Christ 1795-1995</i>. [North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury—in which Dr.
Bob’s entire family was actively involved—eventually became, and still is today,
a member of the United Church of Christ.]<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;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Arthur
Fairbanks Stone, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The History of the North
Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury, Vermont</i>.<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]-->Claire
Dunne Johnson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I See by the Paper . . .”:
An Informal History of St. Johnsbury.</i><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]-->“History
of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Saint Johnsbury.”<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]-->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><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;">7.<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;">Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual
Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and
British Provinces, Held at Richmond, VA., May 26-30, 1875</i>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" 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;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>One source that we did not quote from in our book was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i> newspaper. That
was because I did not get into the archives for the newspaper, which are kept upstairs
on microfiche in the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, until our June 2008 research trip
to St. Johnsbury. The Athenaeum was the school library for the St. Johnsbury
Academy during the years Dr. Bob attended and still is the library for the Town
of St. Johnsbury to this day. During our 2008 trip, I was able to print out
many of the relevant pages of the issues of that newspaper for 1875, as well as
for several years before and after that date. We gave one complete set of those
print-outs to North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, for the “Dr. Bob Core
Library” we founded there in 2008 with the help of the then-pastor, Jay Sprout.
And we kept a set for ourselves—which we have never quoted from to date. In the
meanwhile, issues of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury
Caledonian </i>dating back to “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury have
become available online. And I will be quoting below from the first issue of
the paper to be published after the initial meetings of “the Great Awakening”
took place February 6-8, 1875. And please see our title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous </i>for the relevance of the “the Great
Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury to Dr. Bob’s parents (Judge Walter Perrin
Smith and Susan Amanda Holbrook) and to the town of St. Johnsbury in which Dr.
Bob was born and raised shortly thereafter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now on to the Friday, February 12, 1875, issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian </i>and its reports
concerning the first events of “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury.
Here is the first quote:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“Religious Meetings”:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Free Baptist Church.—Meetings in
hall of Caledonian Block—(Rev. O. Roys, pastor.)</div>
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Methodist Church.—(Rev. D. E.
Miller, Pastor.)</div>
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North Cong’l Church.—(Rev. Chas. M.
Southgate, Pastor.)</div>
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South Cong’l Church.—(Rev. E. T.
Fairbanks, Pastor.)</div>
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Church of the Messiah,
Universalist.—(Rev. B. M. Tillotson, Pastor.)</div>
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Baptist Church.—(Rev. J. H. Marsh,
Pastor.)”<o:p></o:p></div>
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. . .<o:p> </o:p></div>
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The next union religious meeting
will be held at the North Church this (Thursday) evening, at half-past seven.
It is not expected there will be another mass meeting until next Tuesday
evening, although there will be meetings for the young people, and enquirers
after …… both Friday and Saturday evenings.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>There were five Protestant churches in St. Johnsbury at the
time of “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St. Johnsbury:</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]-->North
Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Congregational Church;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Methodist Church;<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]-->The
Baptist Church; and<o:p></o:p></div>
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Free Baptist Church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All five of those Protestant churches had been holding “union
meetings” for about six months prior to “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St.
Johnsbury. The purpose of the “union meetings” was to bring about a revival in
St. Johnsbury.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And here is the second quote:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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“The Gospel Meetings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The religious meetings held in this
place the past week by the committee of young men, were very largely attended,
and pervaded by a deep religious feeling. The leaders were Geo. Davis of
Burlington, Mr. Cook of Ludlow, Messrs. Remington of Fall River and Moore of
Boston. These men were ably seconded by Mr. John Sewell of Norwich, and local
workers, both clergy and laymen. The plain, simple and attractive way these men
had of presenting the Gospel, won the attention and respect of all, and the
hearts of many. The town hall was packed with earnest listeners on Sunday
afternoon; over eight hundred crowded the South Church in the evening, and
nearly as many met at the North [Congregational] Church on Monday evening.
Probably as many as seventy arose for prayers, and a goodly number of these
declared that they had already given themselves to the Lord. This included
heads of families, young men and women, boys and girls.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A most touching incident occurred
in the meeting at the North Church Monday afternoon. William Robinson, a man
who, as he expressed it, had ‘walked in sinful channels all his life,’ arose,
and in the most penitent and broken manner, told his experience, his hope and
his joy. The case of this man is most remarkable. A drinker and fighter, those
who know him best have considered him a dangerous character. Since the Avenue
House riot last fall, in which he was prominent, he has been in jail. The
Spirit of God seems to have visited him in prison, and he is now a new
creature. Although under the condemnation of the law, he is free in the liberty
whereby Christ makes all free who come unto him. He is the happiest man in
town. His prayers and praises have opened the prison doors to him as they did
to Paul and Silas at Philippi. Sheriff Preston allows him to attend these
meetings, fully believing in his sincerity. It is apparently one of those
wonderful exhibitions of the power of the Holy Spirit of which we read
sometimes, but which few are permitted to witness.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The meetings which comprised “the Great Awakening” of 1875
in St. Johnsbury continued over many months following the initial meetings
February 6-8, 1875. These meetings were referred to by various sources as the “Gospel
meetings.” The leaders/presenters of these meetings fell into four groups:<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]-->Members
of the State of Vermont Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association; <o:p></o:p></div>
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laymen from Massachusetts—known as “the Massachusetts brethren”—which was where
the statewide “canvasses” had begun several years earlier; <o:p></o:p></div>
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visiting helper; and<o:p></o:p></div>
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workers helping with the “Gospel meetings.”<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
The State Committee of the Y. M. C. A. was represented by:<o:p></o:p><br />
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Davis [= George Evans Davis; Capt. George E. (Geo. E.) Davis] of Burlington,
Vermont;<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" 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;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and <o:p></o:p></div>
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S. P. Cook (= Silas Parsons Cook) of Ludlow, Vermont.<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" 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;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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="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;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Christian laymen from Massachusetts—known as “the
Massachusetts brethren”—were:<o:p> </o:p></div>
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K. Remington (Robert Knight Remington) of Fall River, Massachusetts;<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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>
and<o:p></o:p></div>
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M. Moore (= Henry Martyn Moore) of Boston, Massachusetts. [H. M. Moore (a member
of the State of Massachusetts committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association
beginning in 1871) and lay preacher K. A. Burnell of Illinois launched the
Gospel canvasses of the New England states beginning in 1871 in Massachusetts.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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The other visiting helper was Mr. John Sewell of Norwich,
Vermont.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the local workers who helped with the “Gospel Meetings”
included both clergy and laymen. (As I mentioned above, the five Protestant
churches of St. Johnsbury had been meeting in “union meetings,” and the clergy
had been meeting to plan for a revival in St. Johnsbury, for about six months
prior to the initial “Gospel Meetings” of “the Great Awakening” of 1875 in St.
Johnsbury. At the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in June 2008, I was able to read the
handwritten “Minutes” of the Caledonia County Ministerial Association beginning
at least six months before February 6, 1875, and continuing until some time
after “the Great Awakening.” Although the notes were fairly clearly written,
they were somewhat hard to read in that they were in pencil and more than 125
years old. The “Minutes” spoke about planning for a revival around the
beginning of 1875.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob stated in his last major talk: “I had
refreshed my memory of the Good Book, and I had had excellent training in that
as a youngster.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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="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;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Dr. Bob spoke about some of that “excellent training” in his personal story in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, but he put a
somewhat negative “spin” on it. He wrote: “From childhood through high school I
was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service,
Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes to Wednesday evening prayer
meeting.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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="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;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Our book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: white;"><strong>Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His
Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont</strong></span></span></a></i>
helps to balance what Dr. Bob called, on the one hand, his “excellent training
in” the Bible “as a youngster”; and called, on the other hand, having been “more
or less forced to go to church, . . .”<br clear="all" />
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: white;">Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His
Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont</span></span></a></i>
(Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2008), xvi-xvii, 1-7: </span><a href="http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 8/31/2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i> (St. Johnsbury,
Vt.), Friday, Feb. 12, 1875, page 3; left hand/first column: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-12/ed-1/seq-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-12/ed-1/seq-3/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 8/28/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%202015.docx" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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: 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;"><span style="color: white;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Johnsbury Caledonian</i> (St. Johnsbury,
Vt.), Friday, Feb. 12, 1875, page 3; left hand/first column: </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-12/ed-1/seq-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1875-02-12/ed-1/seq-3/</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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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Capt. Geo. E. Davis was a Medal of Honor winner during the Civil War. [See: “<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">George E. Davis (Medal of Honor)” in
Wikipedia:<span style="color: white;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Davis_(Medal_of_Honor)"><span style="color: white;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Davis_(Medal_of_Honor)</span></a>;
accessed 8/31/2015]. See also this short biography, which mentions some of his
work on the State Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Vermont:
“Davis, George Evans”: <a href="http://vermontcivilwar.org/get.php?input=1653"><span style="color: white;">http://vermontcivilwar.org/get.php?input=1653</span></a>;
accessed 8/31/2015. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/dickb/Documents/The%20Great%20Awakening%20of%201875%20in%20St.%20Johnsbury/St.%20Johnsbury%20Caledonian%20%20Feb%2012%201875%20%20%20%2008%2031%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="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;"><span style="color: white;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> On
Rev. Silas Parsons (“S. P.”) Cook, see, for example: (1) “Silas Parsons Cook”
in N. F. Carter, <i>The Native Ministry of New Hampshire</i> (Concord, N.H.:
Rumford Printing Co., 1906), 659-60: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/193n4i"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/193n4i</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">;
accessed 8/31/2015; and (2) <i>Minutes of the Eighty-Second Annual Meeting of
the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont,
Held at Bradford, June, 1877. Fifty-Ninth Annual Report of the Vermont Domestic
Missionary Society, and Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Vermont Education
Society</i>. (Montpelier: J. & J. M. Poland, Steam Book and Job Printers,
1877), 88-89: </span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/1ujeta"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/1ujeta</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span>
accessed 8/31/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury was also a member of the State Committee of
the Y. M. C. A. at this time. He was elected to the committee at the state convention
of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Vermont held at Norwich, Vermont, November
19-20, 1874. See: <i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Rutland
Daily Globe</span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (Rutland, Vermont),
Saturday, November 28, 1874, page 2: </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/0z7ek6"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/0z7ek6</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: white;">;</span> accessed 8/31/2015.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Knight Remington” in <i>Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern
Massachusetts</i>, Volume 1 (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1912), 173-75:<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://mcaf.ee/kvt8cp"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mcaf.ee/kvt8cp</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">; accessed 8/31/2015.<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-9061386.post-35199365892818634602015-08-31T12:00:00.002-10:002015-08-31T12:04:42.398-10:00A 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 than 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 ". . . 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>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-21168626589967761852015-08-30T18:52:00.001-10:002015-08-31T03:44:58.896-10:00Christ, the Cross, and the Holy Ghost in the Big Book? Yep.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">By Ken B. (based on research by Dick B.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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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Wilson, “W. G. Wilson’s Original Story<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="_ednref1" 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: 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;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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‘pre-original manuscript’ draft of chapters [one and two] in the Big Book.”<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="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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One: Bill’s Story” in what Bill W. called the “prepublication copy of the text
and some of the stories,” also known as the “Multilith Edition” and as the
“Original Manuscript.”<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="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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One: Bill’s Story” in the printer’s manuscript of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</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="_ednref4" 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: 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;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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One: Bill’s Story” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from
Alcoholism </i>(New York City: Works Publishing Company, 1939).<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="_ednref5" 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: 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;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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A number of people have pointed to Bill W.’s mention of
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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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We sat at the
table and I pushed a lusty glass of gin flavored with pineapple juice in his
direction. . . .<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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"Aren't you
going to have anything?"- I ventured presently. <o:p></o:p></div>
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"Just as
much obliged, but not tonight" I was disappointed, but curious. What had
got into the fellow - he wasn't himself. <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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"Come now,
what's this all about", I asked. Smilingly, yet seriously, he looked
straight at me and said "I've got religion". <o:p> </o:p></div>
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So that was it.
Last summer an alcoholic crackpot - this fall, washed in the blood of the Lamb.
[H]eavens, that might be even worse. I was thunderstruck, and he, of all
people. What on earth could one say to the poor fellow. </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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Such was the
picture I had of myself and the world in which I lived, that there was a mighty
rhythm, intelligence and purpose behind it all despite inconsistencies. I had
rather strongly believed. <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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<!--[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]-->Bill
and Ebby attended Burr and Burton Seminary’s required daily chapel (which
included hymns, prayers, Bible reading, and sermons);<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="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" 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;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Bill
was president of the seminary’s Young Men’s Christian Association<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="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" 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;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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]-->Bill’s
“girl friend,” Bertha Bamford, was president of the seminary's Young Women’s Christian
Association<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="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" 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;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and<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]-->Ebby
lodged for the entire school year with Rev. Sidney K. Perkins, minister of the
First Congregational Church in Manchester, Vermont (where Burr and Burton
Seminary was and still is located).<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="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" 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;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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In closing this article, it is also important to remember
that A.A.’s cofounders, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, were Christian laymen, not
ministers or theologians.<br />
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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>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<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>
</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="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" 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;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In
this (purported) document, the chapter titled “There Is a Solution”—now chapter
two in the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>—is
chapter one. And the chapter titled “Bill’s Story”—now chapter one in the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>–is chapter two.
Bill W. said about these two chapters: “Some time in March or April [1938] I
began to work on what was to become the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>. [—Bill’s wife Lois, who kept a diary, stated
in her memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lois Remembers</i>, that
the start date for the Big Book was actually in May 1938.] By the time our big
money push was under way {“from early summer to early fall [1938]”—page 152 in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i>} I had
completed my own story and had roughed out what is now the second chapter of
the A.A. book. Mimeographed copies of these two chapters were part of the
paraphernalia for the money-raising operation, . . .” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age</i> (New York: Alcoholics Anonymous
World Services, Inc., 1957), 153.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<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 & 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’ & 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>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" 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;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “‘Chapter
One: Bill’s Story’ in the ‘Original Manuscript’”: </span><a href="http://silkworth.net/originalmanuscript/chapter1.html#billsstory"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://silkworth.net/originalmanuscript/chapter1.html#billsstory</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span>
accessed 8/29/2015. Bill W. stated concerning what he called “a prepublication
copy of the text and some of the stories”: “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. So at last was the text. . . .
But someone . . . sounded a note of caution. . . . ‘. . . Had we not better
make a prepublication copy of the text and some of the stories and try the book
out on our own membership and on every kind and class of person that has
anything to do with drunks?’ . . . Four hundred mimeograph copies of the book
were made and sent to everyone we could think of who might be concerned with
the problem of alcoholism.” See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age</i>, 164-65.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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="_edn6" 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: 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;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Chapter
One, “Bill’s Story,” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics
Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed. (New York City: Alcoholics Anonymous World
Services, Inc., 2001), 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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="_edn8" 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: 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;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><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, MN: Hazelden, 1998).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<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="_edn10" 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: 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;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 9.<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="_edn11" 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: 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;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 11.<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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<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="_edn13" 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: xx-small; 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;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> “Bill’s Original Story”:<span style="color: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.silkworth.net/gsowatch/manu/bill38en.rtf"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">www.<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">silkworth.net/gsowatch/manu/bill38en.rtf</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span>
accessed 8/30/2015. Please note that I have corrected a few obvious typos, but
have left several of the typo’s in the text—some of which were in the typed
manuscript, and some of which were introduced by the person who attempted to
reproduce my dad’s (authorized) copy of the typed manuscript.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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B., “A.A. Cofounder Bill W.'s Four-Year Bible Study Course While Attending Burr
and Burton Seminary”; </span><a href="http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2013/06/aa-cofounder-bill-ws-four-year-bible.html"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://mauihistorian.blogspot.com/2013/06/aa-cofounder-bill-ws-four-year-bible.html</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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B., “A.A. Cofounder Bill W.: His Younger Years at a Glance”; </span><a href="http://internationalchristianrecoverycoaliti.blogspot.com/2012/03/aas-bill-w-his-younger-years-in-vermont.html"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://internationalchristianrecoverycoaliti.blogspot.com/2012/03/aas-bill-w-his-younger-years-in-vermont.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span>
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W., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My First 40 Years </i>(Center City,
Minn.: Hazelden, 2000), 29.<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="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" 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;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Manchester Journal</i> [Manchester, Vermont],
Number 31, Thursday morning, November 21, 1912, Volume LII, page 3 (unnumbered)
under “Manchester Center”: </span><a href="http://internationalchristianrecoverycoaliti.blogspot.com/2012/09/vermont-death-of-bertha-bamford-bills.html"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">http://internationalchristianrecoverycoaliti.blogspot.com/2012/09/vermont-death-of-bertha-bamford-bills.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">;</span>
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Mel B., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ebby</i>, 51.</span></div>
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Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-20202891547423942412015-08-30T16:25:00.000-10:002015-08-30T16:28:01.598-10:00Bill W.'s Conviction That He Had Been Cured of His Alcoholism<div align="center">
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[Excerpted from Dick B., "Why Bill Wilson Came Firmly to
Believe That Alcoholism Could Be Cured by Conversion": <a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Alcoholism-Could-Be-Cured.shtml">http://www.dickb.com/articles/Alcoholism-Could-Be-Cured.shtml</a>; accessed 8/30/2015]</div>
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Bill’s conviction about his permanent cure was so strong that he arranged a meeting in December 1937 at the boardroom on the 56<sup>th</sup> floor at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The meeting lasted five hours. Four Rockefeller associates—Albert Scott, Leroy Chipman, W. S. Richardson, and Frank Amos—were present. So, too, were Dr. Silkworth and Bill’s brother-in-law, Dr. Strong. In addition, there was an array of what Frank Amos called “the following ex-alcoholics, William G. Wilson, Henry G. Parkhurst, William J. Ruddell, Ned Pointer and Bill Taylor, all of New York and vicinity; Mr. J. H. F. Mayo of near Baltimore, Maryland; Dr. Robert H. Smith and J. Paul Stanley of Akron, Ohio.” Frank Amos stated that Bill Wilson had briefly told Mr. Richardson, “the story of how, after many vain attempts to discontinue the use of alcohol, he had achieved what he believed was a permanent cure, through what he termed a religious or spiritual process.” Dr. Silkworth stated “without reservation that while he could not tell just what it was that these men had which had effected their ‘cure’ yet he was convinced they were cured and that whatever it was, it had his complete endorsement.” [The foregoing is contained in the “History of the Alcoholic movement up to the formation of The Alcoholic Foundation on Aug. 11, 1938.” I personally obtained, with permission, my copy of this second report by Frank Amos at the Stepping Stones archives in Bedford Hills, New York.] </div>
Dick B.'s son Ken B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849845661502523671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061386.post-68152347945436212562015-08-29T15:56:00.000-10:002015-09-08T09:14:09.701-10:00A Chronology of Events Comprising "Early A.A"<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Dick B. </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(with
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[Excerpted
from “Darkness, Be Gone! Let There Be Light”—Article three in a series of three
articles titled “Alcoholics Anonymous Origins and Early History” by Dick B.: <a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml"><span style="color: white;">http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml</span></a>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1926:
The Rowland H. Story—Obfuscated by Belated Haggling about Dates </span></b><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";">The
probable date of A.A.’s conception coupled with the events that followed has
now been established as 1926, not 1931. This important story has long been
clouded and mis-reported due to a pointless debate as to whether and when the
New York businessman Rowland H. treated with Dr. Carl Gustav Jung in
Switzerland. As the years passed, many have attested that the eminent Swiss
psychiatrist advised a tortured alcoholic Rowland that he (Jung) could not help
him (Rowland) because Rowland had the mind of a chronic alcoholic and therefore
was “medically” incurable. On the other hand, Jung held out the hope <em>that
Rowland might receive help if he sought and had a “conversion experience</em>.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref1"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"><b><sup><span style="color: white;">[1]</span></sup></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref1;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
desired recovery was later achieved when Rowland H. had returned to the United
States<em>, accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior</em>.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref2"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn2"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref2;"><b><sup><span style="color: white;">[2]</span></sup></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref2;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref2;"></span>and
become active in Rev. Sam Shoemaker’s Calvary Episcopal Church and in the
Oxford Group in which Shoemaker was a leader. The bottom line? Rowland was
relieved of his alcoholism.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref3"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn3"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref3;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[3]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref3;"></span>
Few, if any, seemed to ask how and why. The just pointed to the Oxford Group
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Until
recently, there was nary an accurate report of the critical facts. Rowland
placed himself in God’s hand through Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1931:
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Akron Alcoholics Anonymous history highlight occurred in 1931 as the public
learned of the seemingly-miraculous cure of Russell Firestone’s drunkenness.
Russell’s victory occurred on a railroad trip to and from Denver. The
passengers were Russell, his father Harvey Firestone, Russell’s friend James
Newton, and the Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr. Then, on the return trip from
Denver to Akron, Rev. Shoemaker took Russell into a train compartment. He led Russell
to accept Jesus Christ as Russell’s Lord and Savior. And the <i>healing of
Russell’s drinking</i> was instant and widely acknowledged.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref4"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref4;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[4]</span></sup></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1933:
Akron’s Firestone Testimonials, Oxford Group Leaders, and the Message of Hope</span></b><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";">All
too many writers have linked the founding of A.A. with the Oxford Group,
claiming that A.A. emerged from this “First Century Christian Fellowship.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref5"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn5"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref5;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[5]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref5;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref5;"></span>
But the claim needs to be tempered by the actual events leading to founding of
A.A. in Akron in June, 1935.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
stated in my book, <i>The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, the
Russell Firestone healing in 1931 was triggered in part by the zeal of the
young Oxford Group activist James Draper Newton. Newton brought Russell’s
alcoholism, the Oxford Group’s ideas, and Russell’s acceptance of Jesus Christ
to Akron’s doors. And, after the train trip, Newton and the sober Firestone
went about the world on behalf of the Oxford Group--serving as witnesses to its
life-changing program.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref6"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn6"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref6;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[6]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref6;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref6;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then,
in January 1933, the Oxford Group “came to town” (Akron) via the huge
testimonial meetings held in pulpits and halls to overflow audiences. The
speakers were Oxford Group Founder Dr. Frank Buchman, Russell Firestone, James
Newton, and other Oxford Group notables.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref7"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn7"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref7;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[7]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref7;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref7;"></span>
These widely publicized meetings inspired Dr. Bob’s wife, and later Dr. Bob
himself to go to an Oxford Group meeting in Akron, and then to a series of
Oxford Group Wednesday meetings at the home of T. Henry Williams in Akron.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref8"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn8"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref8;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[8]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref8;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref8;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1934:
The Conglomeration of New York Events that involved Oxford Group people,
Rowland H., Dr. William D. Silkworth, Ebby T., Calvary Mission, and Bill
Wilson’s acceptance of Jesus Christ at the Calvary Mission</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter
Dr. William D. Silkworth and His Advice to Bill about the “Great Physician.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
recent biography of Dr. William D. Silkworth adds a vitally-important, and
totally-neglected element to the origins, history, and development of early
A.A.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silkworth’s
biographer, Dale Mitchel, goes to great length to stress the advice that Bill
received from the little doctor who loved drunks. This event happened on Bill’s
third visit to Towns Hospital. The account demonstrates two factors: (a) Bill’s
drinking problem had progressed so far and so deeply that Bill was told by
Silky that if he didn’t quit, he would die or go insane. (b) Dr. Silkworth then
told Bill that the Great Physician Jesus Christ could cure him of his
alcoholism.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref9"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn9"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref9;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[9]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref9;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref9;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
latter piece of advice deeply influenced Wilson on the entire subject of
acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Bill later referred to Silkworth
as a cofounder of A.A.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref10"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn10"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref10;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[10]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref10;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref10;"></span>
Silkworth was considered a friend to A.A. friends like Dr. Norman Vincent
Peale, Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, Charles and Colonel Towns, Frank Amos, and Bill’s
brother-in-law Dr. Leonard Strong.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref11"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn11"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref11;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[11]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref11;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref11;"></span>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to Silkworth's biographer, Silkworth
himself was a devout Christian. For years he attended Calvary Christian
Episcopal Church where Rev. Shoemaker was Rector.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref12"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn12"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref12;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[12]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref12;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref12;"></span>
Over time, he and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale became very good friends.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref13"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn13"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref13;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[13]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref13;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref13;"></span>
From the time he worked with his first alcoholic patient at Bellevue, through
his last speech before his death in 1951, Silkworth believed a spiritual
experience and medical treatment formed the foundation for long-term recovery.
And he spoke frequently about the need for a reliance upon God and a firm
foundation of spiritual strength in order to handle the obsession to drink.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref14"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn14"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref14;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[14]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref14;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref14;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stated, Silkworth knew Dr. Normal Vincent Peale and Shoemaker as friends. Peale
wrote a detailed account in <i>The Positive Power of Jesus Christ</i> about a
seemingly hopeless alcoholic named Chuck who had been advised by Silkworth that
he could be cured of alcoholism by the Great Physician Jesus Christ. Chuck
accepted Christ, and he was healed—just as Silkworth had promised could happen
to both Wilson and Chuck.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref15"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn15"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref15;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[15]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref15;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref15;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill
was so taken with the Great Physician idea that he mentioned this fact and his
reliance on the Great Physician several times in Bill’s own, later,
autobiography.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref16"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn16"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref16;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[16]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref16;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref16;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter
Ebby T.: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
1934, in New York, Bill Wilson had been introduced to the Oxford Group by his
long-time drinking buddy Ebby T. Ebby had been introduced to the Oxford Group
by Rowland H. and two others. Ebby told Bill that he had gotten from the three
fellows some pretty sensible things out of it, “based on the life of Christ,
biblical times” He said he listened carefully and was impressed because they
told of things he had been taught as a child, believed, but then tossed aside.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref17"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn17"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref17;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[17]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref17;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref17;"></span>
Ebby’s biographer also tells us that Ebby was no stranger to religious teaching
and church attendance when he was growing up. His family had both Episcopalian
and Presbyterian connections. His mother was listed as a member of the First
Reformed Church until her death in 1927. And, during one of his school years in
Manchester, Vermont, Ebby had lived with Reverend Sidney K. Perkins family will
there.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref18"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn18"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref18;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[18]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref18;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref18;"></span>
Ebby also said Rowland had had a thorough indoctrination (in the Oxford Group
Christian teachings) and “passed as much of this on to me as he could.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref19"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn19"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref19;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[19]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref19;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref19;"></span>
The three fellows had related the Oxford Group ideas, their Christian tenets,
and the importance of God and prayer to Ebby and then Ebby related them to
Bill.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref20"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn20"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref20;"><sup><span style="color: windowtext;">[<span style="color: white;">20]</span></span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref20;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref20;"></span>
The message to Bill appears to have been transmitted to Bill shortly after Bill
had been given the sentence of death or insanity and the option of Jesus Christ
as a cure on Bill’s third visit to Towns Hospital. Ebby had accepted Jesus
Christ at Calvary Mission<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref21">,</a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn21"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref21;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[21]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref21;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref21;"></span>
and visited Bill to tell Bill of his (Ebby’s) rebirth and deliverance. The
details follow:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After
what may have been a prior call to Bill’s wife Lois, Bill’s old drinking buddy
Ebby Thacher had appeared on the scene—at Bill’s home.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref22"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn22"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref22;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[22]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref22;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref22;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Explaining
his new found sobriety, Ebby said to Bill, “I’ve got religion”—an expression
Bill later used when he wrote his brother in law about his own new birth at
Calvary Mission. Bill asked Ebby: “What kind of religion have you got, Ebby”
Ebby replied, “Oh, I don’t think it has got any brand name. I just fell in with
a group of people, the Oxford Groups. <i>I don’t go along with all their teachings</i>
by any means. But those folks have given me some wonderful ideas: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[1] I learned that I had to admit I was licked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[2] I learned that I ought to take stock of myself and
confess my defects to another person in confidence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[3] I learned that I needed to make restitution for the harm
I had done others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[4] I was told I ought to practice the kind of giving that
has no price tag on it, the giving of yourself to somebody. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[5] Now I know you are going to gag on this, but they taught
me to pray to whatever God I thought there was for the power to carry out these
simple precepts. . . This time I felt completely released of the desire, and I
have not had a drink for months.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref23"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn23"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref23;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[23]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref23;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref23;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ebby
also told Bill he had almost been incarcerated for inebriety. Three Oxford
Group men (one of whom was Rowland H.) rescued Ebby from the judge. They
taught him Christian principles and about the efficacy of prayer. They
also indoctrinated Ebby with the Oxford Group’s life-changing principles.
Rowland H. had told Ebby about Dr. Jung’s advice—advice, said Bill,
“consolidated his [Ebby’s] his condition that he would not get over drinking by
himself or by any resource of psychology or psychiatry.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref24"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn24"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref24;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[24]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref24;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref24;"></span>
Ebby also told Bill “finally how he’d tried prayer just as an experiment and
had found to his surprise that it worked.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref25"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn25"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref25;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[25]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref25;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref25;"></span>
He further explained that the Oxford Group men had lodged him [Ebby] in
Shoemaker’s Calvary Mission.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref26"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn26"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref26;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[26]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref26;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref26;"></span>
There Ebby accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref27"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn27"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref27;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[27]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref27;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref27;"></span>
In Shoemaker terms, Ebby had—like Rowland H.—“found <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God.” He was “saved.” Ebby was (as Bill
observed) born again.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref28"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn28"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref28;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[28]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref28;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref28;"></span>
He was healed for a time. And he carried this information to Bill shortly after
Bill had been told by Dr. Silkworth that he [Bill] could be relieved by the
power of Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill’s
Acceptance of Jesus Christ at Calvary Mission about December 8, 1934:</span></b><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";">Bill
was so influenced by Silkworth’s advice, and then by Ebby’s acceptance of Jesus
Christ at the altar, that Bill himself went first to Calvary Church to hear
Ebby give his testimony there. Having heard Ebby delivering the message from
the pulpit, Bill concluded that perhaps he could get the same help at Calvary
Mission that Ebby had received through his salvation. Bill decided that perhaps
the Great Physician—of whom Dr. Silkworth had spoken—could help him as well.
Bill therefore went to Calvary Mission. In explicit detail, Bill explained what
he saw, heard, and did at Calvary Mission. He told the entire A.A. Convention
at St. Louis: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There were some hymns and prayers. Then Tex, the leader,
exhorted us. Only Jesus could save, he said. . . . Certain men got up and made
testimonials. Numb as I was I felt interest and excitement rising. Then came
the call [the call to come to the altar, to accept Jesus Christ into one’s life
as Savior, and to be saved]. Some men were starting forward to the rail.
Unaccountably impelled, I started too. . . . I knelt among the shaking
penitents. Maybe then and there for the very first time, I was penitent, too.
Something touched me. I guess it was more than that, I was hit. I felt a wild
impulse to talk. Jumping to my feet, I began. Afterward I could never remember
what I said. I only knew that I was really in earnest and that people seemed to
pay attention. . . . Ebby, who at first been embarrassed to death, told me with
relief that I had done all right<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref29"> and had “given my life to
God.</a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn29"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref29;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[29]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref29;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref29;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though
Bill was unable to recall the details of his surrender at the altar, there is
ample proof that he there accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. For one
thing, Mrs. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr. told me [Dick B.] that she was present
when Bill “made his decision for Jesus Christ.” For another, Bill’s wife Lois
stated in a recorded speech she gave in Dallas, Texas: “And he [her husband
Bill Wilson] went up, and really, in very great sincerity, did hand over his
life to Christ.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref30"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn30"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref30;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[30]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref30;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref30;"></span>
Shoemaker’s assistant minister Rev. W. Irving Harris confirmed the rebirth that
Bill had experienced: “It was at a meeting at Calvary Mission that Bill himself
was moved to declare that he had decided to launch out as a follower of Jesus
Christ.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref31"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn31"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref31;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[31]</span></sup></span></a></span><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";">As
you will see in a moment, Bill himself wrote in his autobiography that he had
been born again; and, then, after getting drunk and despondent once again, Bill
decided he should go to Towns Hospital. He said he believed that the Great
Physician could heal him-just as Ebby had been healed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill
emphatically confirmed this new status. Twice he wrote, “For sure I’d been born
again.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref32"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn32"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref32;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[32]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref32;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref32;"></span>
Speaking to his wife of the events at the Mission, Bill told Lois he “had found
the answer.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref33"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn33"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref33;"><sup><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: white;">[33</span>]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref33;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref33;"></span>
Speaking sarcastically about the fact that Bill got drunk after the Mission,
one biographer said: “Salvation did not take hold for a few more besotted
days.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref34"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn34"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref34;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[34]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref34;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref34;"></span>
I [Dick B.] found a manuscript at Stepping Stones Archives. In it, Bill had
written, in language almost identical to that of Ebby’s, after Ebby had told
Bill he “got religion” at the Mission, Bill wrote, “I’ve found religion.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref35"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn35"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref35;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[35]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref35;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref35;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill’s
Last Trip to Towns Hospital, and His Experience Sensing God’s Presence</span></b><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";">Bill
apparently stayed drunk for two or three days. These followed his born-again
experience at Calvary Mission. But he kept pondering his own mission
experience. Bill set out drunk and in despair for Towns Hospital. On the way,
he decided he had better call on the Great Physician, of whom Dr. Silkworth had
spoken and to whom Bill had “surrendered” his life.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref36"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn36"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref36;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[36]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref36;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref36;"></span>
Remembering that Silkworth had told him that he could be <i>cured </i>by that
Great Physician, Bill twice proclaimed, “I was on my way to be cured.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref37"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn37"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref37;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[37]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref37;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref37;"></span>
Appearing also to have recalled that, at the Mission, he had “found religion”
and “found” Jesus Christ at the altar call, Bill arrived at the hospital. He said
“I waved the bottle and shouted, ‘At last, Doc, I’ve found something!’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref38"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn38"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref38;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[38]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref38;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref38;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
the hospital, Bill decided to call on the Great Physician. He then cried out to
God for help; and instantly he had the experience in which he sensed the
presence of the “God of the Scriptures.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref39"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn39"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref39;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[39]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref39;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref39;"></span>
(“God of the Scriptures” was the specific language Bill used). Bill never drank
again. These events are virtually unknown to most AAs today. But they were
frequently repeated to early AAs at their request. Bill’s message of <i>cure</i>
by the “Lord” was finally and plainly described on page 191 of the most recent
edition of <i>Alcoholics Anonymous. </i>There, Bill’s exact words to A.A.
Number Three’s wife were: “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";">Thus,
Bill had made his way to Towns Hospital for the last time. There Bill cried out
to God for help. He had his much-described experience, sensing the presence
of “the God of the Scriptures,” and he was cured—never again touching a
drop of liquor.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref40"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn40"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref40;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[40]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref40;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref40;"></span>
Bill and his wife Lois, accompanied by Ebby and Ebby’s Oxford Group friend Shep
Cornell, began “constantly” attending Oxford Group meetings in New
York—primarily those led by Rev. Sam Shoemaker.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref41"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn41"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref41;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[41]</span></sup></span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill’s
Futile Efforts to Convert Others Once He Was Discharged from Towns:</span></b><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";">Bill’s
immediate cure hastened his release from Towns Hospital for the last time. The
date was December 18, 1934. And at Towns, Bill had concluded that he had a
mission to carry his message to alcoholics all over the world. He became a
fervent message carrier.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref42"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn42"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref42;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[42]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref42;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref42;"></span>
He rushed to the streets, to the hospital, to the mission, to fleabag hotels,
to Oxford Group meetings. He had a Bible under his arm. He told drunks to give
their lives to God.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref43"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn43"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref43;"><sup><span style="color: windowtext;">[<span style="color: white;">43]</span></span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref43;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref43;"></span>
And he even joined a processional from Calvary Church led by Shoemaker in full
vestment. The procession carried a sign “Jesus Christ changes lives.” And Bill
mounted a platform at Madison Square and delivered his testimony.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref44"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn44"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref44;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[44]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref44;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref44;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill’s
feverish message-carrying racing and “sharing for witness” produced absolutely
no lasting results. As Dr. Bob’s last major address explained: “He hadn’t
created a single convert, not one. As we express it, no one had jelled.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref45"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn45"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref45;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[45]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref45;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref45;"></span>
</span><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";">Did
Bill spend six hours witnessing to any of these street people, as he later did
with Dr. Bob? Did he tell them about his new birth at Calvary Mission? Did he,
like the Salvation Army and other forbears, offer to lead the penitent drunks
to God through Jesus Christ? Did he explain to them Silkworth’s advice that the
Great Physician could cure them? Did he tell them about his dramatic experience
at Towns Hospital where he actually experienced the presence of the God of the
Scriptures when he called out to God for help?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
don’t know, but he did ask Dr. Silkworth about the reason for his complete
failure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
word or two about what Dr. Bob called the Oxford Group “association” by Bill W.
and Dr. Bob. The important thing to remember about these Oxford Group
associations by Bob (in Akron starting in 1933), and by Bill (in New York
starting in late 1934) is that they did not produce the fruit of sobriety for
either Dr. Bob or Bill W. Beginning in late December 1934 and continuing into the
spring of 1935, Wilson attended Oxford Group meetings and chased drunks trying
to get them sober. But Bill had no success at all.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref46"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn46"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref46;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[46]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref46;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref46;"></span>
As to Dr. Bob, he went to Oxford Group meetings in Akron for two-and-a-half
years. But he did not want to get sober, nor did he get sober in any of those
meetings.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref47"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn47"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref47;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[47]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref47;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref47;"></span>
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silkworth’s
Advice, Bill’s Change of Strategy, and the Last Link in the Chain</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill
told the entire St. Louis A.A. Convention: “Just before leaving for Akron, Dr.
Silkworth gave me a great piece of advice. . . .”Look Bill, you’re having
nothing but failure because you are preaching at those alcoholics. You are
talking to them about the Oxford Group precepts of being absolutely honest,
absolutely pure, absolutely unselfish, and absolutely loving. This is a very
big order. No wonder they point their finger to their heads and go out and get
drunk. Why don’t you turn your strategy the other way around. . . . [William
James says] ‘that deflation in depth is the foundation of most spiritual experiences?.
. . [Dr. Carl Jung in Zurich told a certain alcoholic, the one who later helped
sober up your friend Ebby, that his only hope of salvation was a spiritual
experience. . . . No, Bill, you’ve got the cart before the horse. You’ve
got to deflate these people first. So give them the medical business, and give
it to them hard. . . . [Tell them about the allergy and obsession] that
condemns them to go mad or die if they keep on drinking. Coming from another
alcoholic, one alcoholic talking to another, maybe that will crack those tough
egos down. Only then can you begin to try out your other medicine, the
ethical principles you have picked up from the Oxford Group.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now
(said Bill to the Convention)—talking with Dr. Bob—I remembered all that Dr.
Silkworth had said. So I went very slowly on the fireworks of religious
experience. I just talked away about my own case until he got a good
identification with me, until he began to say, ‘Yes, that’s me, I’m like that.
. . . In our first conversation I bore down heavily on the medical hopelessness
of Dr. Bob’s case, freely using Dr. Silkworth’s words describing the
alcoholic’s dilemma, the “obsession plus the allergy.” . . . What really did
hit him hard was the medical business, the verdict of inevitable annihilation.
And the fact that I was an alcoholic and knew what I was talking about from
personal experience made the blow a shattering one. . . . You see our talk was
completely a <i>mutual</i> thing. I had quit preaching. I knew that I needed
this alcoholic as much as he needed me. <i>This was it.</i> And this mutual
give and take is at the very heart of the A.A.’s Twelfth Step work today. This
is how to carry the message. The final missing link was located right there in
my first talk with Dr. Bob.”<span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref48;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[48]</span></sup></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1935:
Bill was put in touch with Dr. Bob in Akron. The two men clicked, and the
Akron A.A. “Christian fellowship” was founded in June 1935; and its first
group, Akron Number One, was founded on July 4, 1935, when “Alcoholic Anonymous
Number Three” (Akron attorney Bill D.) left Akron City Hospital, never to drink
again for the rest of his life.</span></b><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";">The
Akron “Christian fellowship” program founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob in June of
1935 was Bible-based.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref49"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn49"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref49;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[49]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref49;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref49;"></span>
It was not Oxford Group-based.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref50"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn50"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref50;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[50]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right
or wrong, one history writer said that the wife of A.A. old-timer Earl T. (who
got sober about August of 1937) said: “Right after Earl joined, the Oxford
Group threw them out and said they didn’t want them any more.” The wife of Earl
T. was also recorded as saying: “There was no name for the group. It was not
Alcoholics Anonymous; it was nothing. But the Oxford Group . . . helped in
many, many ways: in marital affairs, in finances, anything you could think of.
However, they had never coped with alcoholism. But they did welcome these 13
men (in 1935 and ’37, in Akron, Ohio), and took them into their group where
they stayed for a short time, and then I think the Oxford Group figured they couldn’t
help very much in alcoholism. So they suggested that they get out and form
their own group. Which they did.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref51"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn51"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref51;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[51]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Its
prime Bible emphasis in the Akron Christian Fellowship was on these words which
came from Dr. Bob: “But we were convinced that the answer to our problems was
in the Good Book. To some of us older ones, the parts we found absolutely
essential were the Sermon on the Mount, the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians,
and the Book of James.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref52"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn52"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref52;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[52]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref52;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref52;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Akron’s
Christian program included qualification of newcomers, hospitalization,
required belief in God, required acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord, required
Bible study, required reading of non-Oxford Group devotionals and Christian
literature, required old fashioned prayer meetings, recommended Christian
fellowship and attendance at a religious service of choice.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref53"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn53"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref53;"><sup><span style="color: windowtext;">[53]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref53;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref53;"></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But,
as Dr. Bob stated, Akron A.A. had no Twelve Steps, no Twelve Traditions, no Big
Book, no life-changing program, no drunkalogs, and no meetings like the Oxford
Group’s meetings on the East Coast.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref54"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn54"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref54;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[54]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref54;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref54;"></span>
Instead, the alcoholic squadron in Akron had regular, daily “Christian
fellowship” meetings and daily attendance at Anne Smith’s Quiet Time where the
Bible was read, prayers were uttered, guidance was sought, and discussion of
items largely from Anne Smith’s journal were regular fare.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref55"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn55"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref55;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[55]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref55;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref55;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Returning
to the important meeting between Bill and Dr. Bob, the following Akron events
preceded it: Bill set out to Akron on a business deal that failed. Just before
Bill arrived, Dr. Bob had been persuaded by the little Oxford Group led by
Henrietta Shoemaker to confess that he was a “secret drinker.” He had read an
immense amount of Oxford Group literature. He had “refreshed [his] memory of
the Good Book” by reading the Bible from cover to cover three times. He had
attended church. But he told Henrietta he was probably just one of the “wanna
wanna” guys. He didn’t want to quit, and he didn’t. But, after he admitted to
the tiny group that he had his drinking problem, he was asked if he would like
to pray for his deliverance. He replied, “Yes.” He dropped to the floor on his
knees with the others present and prayed—prayers that were soon to be answered.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref56"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn56"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref56;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[56]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref56;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref56;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next
came the seemingly-miraculous phone call from Bill W. to Henrietta Seiberling.
Bill told Henrietta he was a rum hound from New York, was a member of the
Oxford Group, and needed to talk to a drunk. Being an Oxford Group activist
herself, Henrietta readily understood Bill’s “sharing for witness” idea. She
was sure the prayers had been answered. She thought to herself: “This is manna
from heaven.” And she arranged the talk.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref57"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn57"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref57;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[57]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref57;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref57;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
meeting between Wilson and Dr. Bob was at her home. It lasted six hours. Dr.
Bob remarked in his personal story written at a later time that Bill had been
cured by the very spiritual means he had been using. But Bob believed Wilson
talked his language. And though he said he had heard it all before, he saw that
Bill was demonstrating his own effective witnessing—service aimed at someone
who needed help. And it was this “service” aspect that Dr. Bob felt he had not
been using.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref58"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn58"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref58;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[58]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref58;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref58;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1937:
The Year of Documented Success and of the Wilsons’ Oxford Group Departure.</span></b><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";">The
Wilsons were (to use the words of Bill W.’s wife) “kicked out” of the Oxford
Group around August of 1937.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref59"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn59"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref59;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[59]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref59;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref59;"></span>
The Oxford Group influence in Akron stemmed, as T. Henry put it, from a
“clandestine lodge”—focused on helping drunks. It did not focus on Oxford Group
founder Frank Buchman’s major effort of and world changing through
life-changing. The Oxford Group movement itself was busy saving a “drunken
world,” as its founder put it.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref60"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn60"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref60;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[60]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref60;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref60;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
November 1937, the Akron seven-point program was well positioned (as soon after
illuminated by and in the February 1938 Frank Amos report to John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.).<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref61"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn61"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref61;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[61]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref61;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref61;"></span>
Bill W. and Dr. Bob had “counted noses” and found at least a 50% success rate
among about 40 of<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref62"> the serious fellowship alkies.</a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn62"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref62;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[62]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref62;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref62;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1937-1938:
Work Began on the New Oxford-Group Oriented Program Bill Developed.</span></b><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";">Bill
had asked permission to write a book telling others about the program. Bill
received permission by a split vote in Akron.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref63"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn63"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref63;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[63]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref63;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref63;"></span>
Bill returned to New York and began a flurry of activity on the book. It meant:
(1) Partnering with Henry P. in promoting the book as a cure for
alcoholism.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref64"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn64"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref64;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[64]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref64;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref64;"></span>
(2) Forming an ill-fated pseudo corporation to publish the book.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref65"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn65"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref65;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[65]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref65;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref65;"></span>
(3) Working with Rev. Sam Shoemaker on Twelve Step and Big Book language.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref66"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn66"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref66;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[66]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref66;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref66;"></span>
(4) Preparing many manuscripts—the principal one now lost;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref67"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn67"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref67;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[67]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref67;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref67;"></span>
and. (5) Preparing the final printer’s manuscript for publication.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
attributed the language of at least Steps 2 through 11 to the Oxford Group as
led in America by Rev. Shoemaker. The other two—Steps One and Twelve—Bill
attributed to Dr. Silkworth and Professor William James.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref68"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn68"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref68;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[68]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Seldom Discussed or
Learned Picture of the Founding in Akron and Events Thereafter</span></b><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";">One
need only read Dr. Bob’s last major address in Detroit in December 1948—as found
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Co-Founders of Alcoholics
Anonymous </i>pamphlet—to see a Bible-based program that is very different from
the Oxford-Group based ideas in Bill W.’s Big Book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Akron A.A. “Christian Fellowship” Program: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First,
Dr. Bob pointed out that when he and Bill Wilson led A.A. Number Three to
sobriety, they had no Steps. No Traditions. No drunkalogs. And they had no Big
Book and no meetings as we know them today. Then Dr. Bob pointed out that he
and Bill had spent many hours and much effort until the wee time in the morning
discussing the basic ideas from the Bible that “must have” formed the basis of
the Twelve Steps, as he put it. Dr. Bob also stated that the old-timers
believed the answer to their problems was in the Bible. He said they considered
the Book of James, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians in the Bible
to be “absolutely essential” to the early program.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref69"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn69"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref69;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[69]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here
are the additional factual statements that confirm the importance of the Book
of James, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13: <o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Wilson himself and
others pointed out how the Book of James was their favorite.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref70"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn70"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref70;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[70]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Both Bill and Bob stated that
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount contained the underlying spiritual philosophy of
A.A.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref71"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn71"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref71;"><sup><span style="color: windowtext;">[<span style="color: white;">71]</span></span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A pamphlet that came out of
Akron in the 1940’s contained a “lead” given by Dr. Bob in Youngstown, Ohio.
Dr. Bob’s words were summarized by A. D. Le Minte of the Youngstown, Ohio <i>Vindicator</i>.
[Dr. Bob said:] “Members of Alcoholics Anonymous begin the day with a prayer
for strength and a short period of Bible reading. They find the basic messages
they need in the Sermon on the Mount, in Corinthians and the Book of James.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref72"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn72"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref72;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[72]</span></sup></span></a></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In an interview, an Akron old-timer
Duke P. said this about the Akron King School A.A. meeting: “No one read from
the Big Book. Once in a while, the Chairperson would read something from a
Bible if the passage related directly to his story.” Duke remembers the
Chairperson reading from the Book of James and Dr. Bob reading Corinthians
1:13.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref73"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn73"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref73;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[73]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
takes only a moment to see that these Bible specific ideas were neither
mentioned nor incorporated by Bill Wilson in his Big Book and Twelve Steps. The
early A.A. program was succinctly summarized by Frank Amos in the seven points
summarized in <i>DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers</i>. See page 131. That summary
clearly states that the Akron program did not embody the Oxford Group program.
Moreover, there is no significant evidence that the early AAs embraced the
Oxford Group’s twenty-eight life-changing ideas.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref74"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn74"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref74;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[74]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref74;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref74;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Akron program embodied many special techniques peculiar to the Akron alcoholic
squadron and its Christian Fellowship. Qualification of a newcomer was
required, and no alcoholic was admitted until he made clear he wanted to
abstain from drink permanently. Drunks were hospitalized. The Bible was read to
them in the hospital. All were required to declare their belief in God. All were
required to accept Jesus as Lord in a special ceremony resembling that in James
5:16. All were required to study the Bible and participate in old fashioned
prayer meetings. All were required to observe Quiet Time. All were given
Christian literature and devotionals to read and use. All fellowshipped
together in much the same way as the Apostles as described in the Book of Acts.
And these practices caused many to agree with Albert Scott who chaired a
meeting on behalf of Rockefeller and declared: “Why this is first century
Christianity. What can we do to help?”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref75"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn75"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref75;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[75]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref75;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref75;"></span>
And all were required to go out and help other drunks get well. Many tried to
conform to the “Four Absolutes” of the Oxford Group—standards developed long
before there was an Oxford Group. But almost all the Bible-study, prayer
meetings, reading of Christian literature, Quiet Time observances, and
acceptance of Jesus Christ could be traced to several origins that existed
during Dr. Bob’s youth and were practiced long before there was either an A.A.
or an Oxford Group.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref76"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn76"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref76;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[76]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref76;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref76;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
can be traced to the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor—founded in
1881. They can be traced to the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Salvation
Army, and Gospel Rescue Missions founded in the mid-1800’s. They can be traced
to the famed evangelists of the later 1800’s who were widely at work and widely
known at the time Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob were youngsters. These included
Dwight Moody, Ira Sankey, F. B. Meyer, and Allen Folger. And even the Four
Absolutes were the product of Dr. Robert E. Speer and his book <i>The
Principles of Jesus</i>. Those Four “Standards,” as they were often called,
were taught and expanded by Professor Henry B. Wright at the beginning of the
next century –again before either A.A. or the Oxford Group existed.<a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn77"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref77;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[77]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref77;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref77;"></span>
<i>The Principles of Jesus</i> was published in 1902 before A.A. and the Oxford
Group existed.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref78"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn78"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref78;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[78]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref78;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref78;"></span>
Wright’s book, <i>The Will of God and a Man’s Lifework </i>was published in
1909--again before either A.A. or the Oxford Group existed.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref79"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn79"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref79;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[79]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref79;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref79;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Proclaimed Successes of the Akron Program: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
early A.A. practices were defined and then tested by November of 1937. At that
time, Dr. Bob and Bill met at Bob’s home in Akron. They “counted noses” of
those real alcoholics who had gone to any lengths as the program required.
There were about 40. 20 had never had a drink. This electrified the founders.
And they said so.<a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn80"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref80;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[80]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref80;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref80;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Rockefeller leaders convened a meeting in their offices in New York. Present
were Dr. Bob and Akronites; Bill Wilson and New Yorkers; Bill’s brother-in-law;
Dr. William Silkworth; and four Rockefeller representatives. They listened to
the stories of the alcoholics. They had read the Amos reports. And they saw the
handwritten memo by Dr. Bob on his office stationary detailing the names and
sobriety achievements of members up to that date. These showed about a
seventy-five percent success rate. And Dr. Silkworth then pointed out that he
knew the program, had treated several, and that—in his opinion—all were
permanently cured.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref81"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn81"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref81;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[81]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref81;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref81;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the first decade of A.A.’s existence, articles and columns appeared in
magazines and newspapers across America. Today those materials are available in
a scrap book on sale at A.A.’s New York headquarters. They tell of dozens of
alcoholics who claimed cure by the power of God.<a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn82"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref82;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[82]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref82;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref82;"></span>
And each of the first three AAs had declared that they had been cured.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref83"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn83"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref83;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[83]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref83;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref83;"></span>
In fact, one proposed dust jacket for the Big Book of 1939 was green. It was
simple. It depicted an alcoholic and a bottle. The proposed subtitle for the
book found on the dust jacket was: “Their Pathway to a Cure.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref84"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn84"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref84;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[84]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref84;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref84;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the period before he completed the Big Book, Bill claimed that the program had
been Oxford Group in nature and involved six “word-of-mouth” ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However,
the Oxford Group never had any “Steps.” Not one. Not six. Not Twelve.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref85"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn85"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref85;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[85]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref85;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref85;"></span>
And Bill said “Though these principles were advocated according to the whim or
liking of each of us, and though in Akron and Cleveland they still stuck to the
O.G. absolutes of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love, this was the gist
of our message.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref86"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn86"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref86;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[86]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref86;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref86;"></span>
There was much disagreement about the nature of these six ideas. More
important, he penned at least three different versions of the six ideas, as he
recalled them. One talked about God. One talked about God as we understood Him.
And one talked about “whatever God you thought there was.” These variations
have seldom, if ever, been made known to the A.A. fellowship in any organized
way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next,
on the face of it, Bill certainly fashioned a far different recovery program
for his proposed Big Book than the Akron “Christian fellowship” program he and
Dr. Bob had begun developing and testing over the summer of 1935. Frank Amos,
an agent of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., succinctly summarized the Akron program
as it looked in late February 1938 on page 131 of A.A.’s own <i>DR.BOB and the
Good Oldtimers.</i> Ultimately, Bill claimed his “new version of the program,
now the ‘Twelve Steps,’” derived from Professor William James (long dead), from
Dr. William D. Silkworth, and primarily from the Oxford Group teachings of Rev.
Sam Shoemaker. He did not mention the Bible. He did not mention the Akron
program and its seven points. He did not mention Bible studies, conversions to
God through His Son Jesus Christ, Quiet Times, belief in God, acceptance of
Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the Akron “Christian fellowship,” or even
Richard Peabody—a lay therapist who died drunk but whose language about no cure
for alcoholism was borrowed by Bill and interjected into instructions for one
of the Steps.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref87"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn87"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref87;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[87]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even
though Bill omitted such much from the original Akron program, we now know that
Bill said about his 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>I had consistently used the word “God,”</i> 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 [P.]”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref88"> (emphasis added).</a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn88"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref88;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[88]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref88;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref88;"></span>
But Bill had jettisoned many pages containing biblical and Christian materials.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref89"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn89"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref89;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[89]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref89;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref89;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Great Compromise with the
Atheists in April 1939</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Book That Started It All</span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
together with</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age,</i> dramatically show all elements of the Great
Compromise. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book That Started It All </i>contains
high resolution scans of the “original” printer’s manuscript of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alcoholics Anonymous</i>.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref90"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn90"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref90;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[90]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref90;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref90;"></span>
These scans show hundreds of hand-written changes that were made to the
otherwise-typewritten document known as “the Multilith Edition” and “the
Original Manuscript.” In <i>Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>Bill had
written at page 169:</span><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";">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. 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.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
Transpired Before the Compromise:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><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";">Bill
had hardly emphasized the activities that preceded the changes. </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill’s
Word-Of-Mouth “Six” Steps: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First
of all, Bill had written about his so-called word-of-mouth program. He said:
“Since Ebby’s visit to me in the fall of 1934 we had gradually evolved what we
called “the word-of-mouth program.” (But we have seen no mention of this by Dr.
Bob or the Akron people.) Bill went on: “Most of the basic ideas had come from
the Oxford Groups, William James, and Dr. Silkworth. Though subject to
considerable variation, it all boiled down into a pretty consistent procedure
which comprised six steps.” It is very clear from A.A.’s own <i>“Pass It On”</i>
and from the writings of Oxford Group employee, writer, and activist T. Willard
Hunter that the Oxford Group had no steps at all. Not Twelve. Not six. Not one!<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref91"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn91"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref91;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[91]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lois
Wilson’s Summary: </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However,
Bill’s wife—who perhaps had the clearest mind in the Wilson family—did plainly
claim that there were six “Oxford Group precepts.” She said they were in
substance: (1) surrender your life to God. (2) take a moral inventory. (3)
confess your sins to God and another human being. (4) Make restitution. (5)
give of yourself to others with no demand for return. (6) pray to God for help
to carry out these principles. She added mention of the four “Absolutes” –
“moral standards by which every thought and action should be tested.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref92"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn92"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref92;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[92]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a
moment’s time, a reader can see from Lois’s comments that her version of the
“six” precepts very much resemble the starting point for Bill’s Twelve Steps.
They unequivocally mention God. They mention a moral inventory. They mention
confession of sins to God. They mention restitution and working with others.
And they specifically mention prayer to God!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anne
Smith’s Summary: </span></b><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is remarkable how closely Lois Wilson’s understanding of the six Oxford Group
precepts resemble almost identical language and approach as expressed by Dr.
Bob’s wife in her journal she shared with alcoholics and their families. I have
devoted a whole chapter in Anne Smith’s Journal to the Twelve Steps—one by
one—and what Anne had to say that resembled each of those Big Book Steps.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref93"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn93"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref93;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[93]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
brief, you can see that Dr. Bob’s wife Anne covered Lois’s enumerated six ideas
with:<o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Surrender is a simple act of
will. What do we surrender? Our life. When? At a certain definite moment. How? <i>O
God, manage me because I can’t manage myself.</i>” (page 20, italics added).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Test your thoughts. It is
possible to receive suggestions from your subconscious mind. Check your
thoughts by the four standards of Christ. . . . Make the moral test, 4
Standards.” (p.32).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sharing in relationship to
the Gospel: 1. Matthew 3:6 Sins Confessed. . . . I must share to be honest with
God, myself & others.” (pp. 38-39).<o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Any restitution I won’t
make. . . Resentments to be faced and set right. . . Restitution to be made.”
(p. 48).<o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Start the person on a new
life with simple, concrete and definite suggestions, regarding Bible study,
prayer, overcoming temptation and service to others.” (p.78).<o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Claim from God humility,
patience, courage, faith and love. . . . The strength of a man’s decision is
his willingness to be held to it. Stretched as God wants me to be
stretched—consistent living, discipline, no letting down, no retiring age, a
life spent in action. The proportion—thinking and living for other people.” (p.
78).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back
now to Bill’s renditions of his so-called six “word of mouth” ideas. </span></b><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";">The
problem is that Bill had many ways of phrasing them. He said there was no
common agreement on their content. And they do not, in any significant way,
resemble the seven points of the Akron program or the 16 practices of the Akron
pioneers. But here are several versions, as Bill expressed them, of his alleged
six ideas.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill listed one version in <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age </i>writing. He mentioned a moral inventory “of our
defects or <u>sins</u>.” His sixth idea said: “We prayed to <u>whatever God we
thought there was</u>.” He then says, on page 160: “This was the substance of
what, by the fall of 1938, we were telling newcomers.” <u>1938</u>! But there
are two other versions written by Bill himself. </span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In July of 1953, Bill wrote an
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A.A.</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grapevine</i> article now embodied in <i>The Language of the Heart.</i>
There he spoke of what he claimed was “the gist of our message to incoming
alcoholics up to 1939, when our present Twelve Steps were put to paper.” <u>1939</u>!
And these “six” ideas were much different in language and intent. Bill made no
mention of a “moral inventory of sins.” He changed “we were licked” to “we were
powerless over alcohol.” Most important, he changed the language “We prayed to
whatever God we thought there was” to “<u>We prayed to God</u> to help us to do
these things.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref94"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn94"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref94;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[94]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref94;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref94;"></span>
This language is quite consistent with Bill’s claim that when he wrote the
manuscript of the Big Book, he <u>had always used the unqualified word “God.”</u></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In New York, Bill’s former
secretary and A.A.’s first archivist Nell Wing handed me a handwritten memo in
Bill’s own hand. Bill had told Nell that he had written a memo on the six
“steps.” The hand-written memo said, “For Ed.” It was signed, “Ever, Bill W.”
It was dated “Apr/1953.” And it was titled, “Original A.A. Steps.” And I have
set it out in full in my <i>New Light on Alcoholism</i> title on pages 551 and
552. Bill used the word “hopeless” instead of “licked” or “powerless.” He wrote
“honest with self” instead of “moral inventory.” He wrote “honest with another”
instead of mentioning one’s self and God or confession of “sins.” He wrote
“Made amends” instead of restitution. He wrote helped others without demand.
And then he used the phrase “<u>Prayed to God as you understand Him.</u>”<o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then there is a highly
suspect list of an alleged “six steps” attributed to Dr. Bob. The list uses
language far more resembling Bill’s Step language than any language of Dr.
Bob’s. It is contained in a personal story of Earl T. of Chicago. It appears in
the Second Edition of the Big Book (published in 1955) at page 292—some years
after Dr. Bob’s death. And it uses the following ideas, all typical of Bill
Wilson language. Here it is: <o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Complete deflation.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref95"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn95"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref95;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[95]</span></sup></span></a></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dependence and guidance from
a Higher Power.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Moral Inventory.” <o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Confession.” <o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Restitution.” <o:p></o:p></span></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]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Continued work with other
alcoholics.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
have concluded from Dr. Bob’s handwritten roster lodged in the Rockefeller
Archives that Earl T. got sober in July or August of 1937. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One
lady, who moderated her own posts on the Internet and excluded those she didn’t
like, posted two interviews in 2002 that purported to be of Earl T.’s wife. His
wife made no mention of the language or practice of any steps because there
were none. And the Oxford Group had none. The wife said Dr. Bob took her
husband “through the steps in one afternoon.” She mentions none of the language
whatever about the “steps” and no language resembling that inserted in the Big
Book in 1955. She said that Earl had a small group; and that he was a nervous
wreck, not knowing what they could do or talk about. Earl finally said “Well we
better pattern ourselves after the Oxford Group.” The wife said</span><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 they had used the Bible. Of course a lot of these people
had not read a Bible forever. But <u>we got down the old Bible and brushed it
off, and when they came, they picked out a chapter and it was read. Then they
discussed it</u>. That was the first meeting. . . . The next thing they decided
upon was <u>a quiet time</u>. . . . He was also to offer a <u>prayer, ask for
guidance</u>, and at night when he came home, to review what had happened to
him, and also to <u>offer a prayer of thankfulness</u>”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref96"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn96"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref96;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[96]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref96;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref96;"></span>
An earlier post quoted the wife: “There was <u>no Big Book yet</u> and <u>no
literature except various religious pamphlets</u>. The meeting lasted an hour
and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref97"><u>closed with the Lord’s Prayer</u>.</a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn97"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref97;"><sup><span style="color: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[97]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref97;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref97;"></span><u><br />
</u><br />
<b>The Compromise Changes Apparent in the Printer’s Manuscript:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
show the attempts to delete the word “God.” They show the insertion of “as we
understood Him” in italics after the word “God.” They show that the idea of
“choose your own conception” of “a” god was a last minute handwritten insertion
that had never been attributed to Ebby in the many manuscripts I found at
Stepping Stones or even in the working manuscript in April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
his belated history of early A.A., Bill explained the compromise with the
atheists in very specific terms. He pointed out that four people only—Bill
Wilson, his partner Henry Parkhurst, his Christian “southern friend” John Henry
Fitzhugh M., and the office secretary Ruth Hock—had agreed to the changes to
placate the atheists. They deleted the word “God” from Step Two. The changed
the word “God” in Step Three to “God as we understood Him.” They deleted the
word “on our knees.” And they substituted “God as we understood Him” for “God”
in Step Eleven. Bill hailed these changes as a great contribution for the
atheists and agnostics. Bill asserted that “God” was still there, but in terms
that anyone could understand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
compromise, he said, was the result of vigorous pleas, threats, and arguments
from his partner Henry P.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref98"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn98"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref98;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[98]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref98;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref98;"></span>
And Bill’s wife Lois said there had been an agreement on a “universal” program
since not all drunks were Christians.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref99"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_edn99"><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref99;"><sup><span style="color: white;">[99]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref99;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ednref99;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn1"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn1;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[1]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn1;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn1;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>“Pass It
On,” </i>(NY:<i> </i>Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1984), 381-386.
And though the debate may still be lingering, date and fact of the visit have
largely been resolved by the article: Amy Colwell Bluhm, "Verification of
C. G. Jung's Analysis of Rowland Hazard and the History of Alcoholics
Anonymous," in <i>History of Psychology</i>, 2006, Vol. 9, No. 4, 313-24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn2"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref2"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn2;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[2]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn2;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn2;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Jay
Stinnett, “AA Spiritual History Workshop,” March 11, 2007, Reykjavik, Iceland,
slide 52; <a href="http://silkworth.net/aahistory/history_workshops/AA_Spiritual_History_Workshop.pdf"><span style="color: white;">http://silkworth.net/aahistory/history_workshops/AA_Spiritual_History_Workshop.pdf</span></a>;
accessed 12/25/11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn3"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref3"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn3;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[3]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn3;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>New
Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A.</i>, Pittsburgh ed., Index
page 610, See www.dickb.com/newlight.shtml.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn4"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref4"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn4;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[4]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn4;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn4;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous. </i><a href="http://www.dickb.com/Akron.shtml"><span style="color: white;">www.dickb.com/Akron.shtml</span></a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn5"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref5"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn5;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[5]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn5;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn5;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> See <i>Serenity:
A Companion for Twelve Step Recovery</i> (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers,
1990), 15-21; <i>Recovery Devotional Bible: New International Version</i>
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993), x, xiii-xiv<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn6"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref6"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn6;"><sup><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[6]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn6;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn6;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 29-51.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn7"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref7"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn7;"><sup><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[7]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn7;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn7;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> '<i>PASS IT ON,'</i> (NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1984), 141; Dick B., <i>The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 17-51.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn8"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref8"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn8;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[8]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn8;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn8;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR.BOB
and the Good Oldtimers</i> (NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.,
1980), 57-60.<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn9"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref9"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn9;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[9]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn9;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn9;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dale
Mitchel, <i>Silkworth The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks: The Biography of
William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. </i>(Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2002), 43-47,
49-51, 225.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn10"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref10"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn10;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[10]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn10;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn10;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mitchel, <i>Silkworth,
</i>xv.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn11"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref11"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn11;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[11]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn11;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn11;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mitchel, <i>Silkworth,
</i>xxv.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn12"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref12"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn12;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[12]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn12;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn12;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mitchel, <i>Silkworth,
</i>11-12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn13"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref13"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn13;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[13]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn13;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn13;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mitchel, <i>Silkworth,
</i>54.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn14"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref14"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn14;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[14]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn14;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn14;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mitchel, <i>Silkworth,
</i>33-34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn15"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref15"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn15;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[15]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn15;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn15;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Norman
Vincent Peale, <i>The Positive Power of Jesus Christ</i> (Carmel, NY:
Guideposts, n.d.), 59-62.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn16"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref16"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn16;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[16]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn16;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn16;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years </i>(Center City, MN, Hazelden), 139, 145; <i>Silkworth</i>, 44,
47, 49, 50, 51.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn17"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref17"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn17;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[17]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn17;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn17;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mel B., <i>Ebby:
The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.</i> (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998), 51.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn18"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref18"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn18;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[18]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn18;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn18;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mel B., <i>Ebby,
</i>51.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn19"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref19"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn19;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[19]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn19;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn19;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B. and
Ken B., <i>The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide</i>, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei,
HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2010), 39.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn20"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref20"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn20;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[20]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn20;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn20;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years, </i>127-28, 131, 133-34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn21"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref21"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn21;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[21]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn21;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn21;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> T. Willard
Hunter, <i>“IT STARTED RIGHT THERE,”</i> 6.<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn22"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref22"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn22;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[22]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn22;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn22;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mel B., <i>Ebby,
</i>66.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn23"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref23"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn23;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[23]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn23;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn23;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age</i> (NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.,)
58-59.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn24"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref24"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn24;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[24]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn24;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn24;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years, </i>130-131.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn25"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref25"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn25;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[25]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn25;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn25;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years,</i> 141-142.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn26"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref26"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn26;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[26]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn26;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn26;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years, </i>131.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn27"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref27"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn27;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[27]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn27;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn27;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> T. Willard
Hunter, <i>“IT STARTED RIGHT THERE,”</i> Rev ed., (Claremont, CA: Ives
Community Office, 2006), 6. Dick B. found a manuscript at Stepping Stones
Archives, titled “Bill Wilson’s Original Story.” In lines 935 to 942 of that
manuscript, Bill wrote: “Nevertheless here I was sitting opposite a man [Ebby
Thacher] 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 <i>no denying he had been reborn.</i> [italics added].
See Dick B., <i>Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots and
Successes </i>(San Rafael, CA: Paradise Research Publications, 1997), 99-100;
and Dick B. and Ken B. <i>The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, </i>3<sup>rd</sup>
ed., 39.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn28"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref28"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn28;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[28]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn28;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn28;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Conversion of Bill W., </i>49.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn29"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref29"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn29;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[29]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn29;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn29;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>60.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn30"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref30"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn30;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[30]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn30;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn30;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Conversion of Bill W.: More on the Creator’s Role in Early A.A.</i> (Kihei, HI:
Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006), 61.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn31"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref31"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn31;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[31]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn31;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn31;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Conversion of Bill W., </i>62.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn32"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref32"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn32;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[32]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn32;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn32;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Conversion of Bill W., </i>62, 110; <i>Turning Point, </i>94-98; Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years, </i>147<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn33"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref33"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn33;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[33]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn33;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn33;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Matthew
Raphael, <i>Bill W. and Mr. Wilson: The Legend and Life of A.A.’s Cofounder</i>
(____ University of Washington Press, 2000), 78.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn34"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref34"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn34;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[34]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn34;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn34;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Raphael, <i>Bill
W.,</i> 78.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn35"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref35"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn35;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[35]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn35;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn35;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Conversion of Bill W., </i>95.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn36"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref36"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn36;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[36]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn36;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn36;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years, </i>138-139.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn37"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref37"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn37;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[37]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn37;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn37;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 years, </i>140.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn38"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref38"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn38;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[38]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn38;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn38;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years, </i>140<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn39"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref39"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn39;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[39]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn39;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn39;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Language of the Heart</i>, 284.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn40"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref40"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn40;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[40]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn40;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn40;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bill W., <i>My
First 40 Years: An Autobiography by the Cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>
(Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2000), 115-155; <i>Lois Remembers: Memoirs of the
co-founder of Al-anon and Wife of the Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>
(NY: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, 1979), 91-94;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn41"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref41"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn41;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[41]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn41;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn41;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Lois
Remembers, </i>91-92.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn42"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref42"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn42;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[42]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn42;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn42;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>64.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn43"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref43"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn43;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[43]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn43;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn43;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Borchert, <i>The
Lois Wilson Story, </i>168-170.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn44"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref44"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn44;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[44]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn44;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn44;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>New
Light on Alcoholism, </i>372-374, 556, 391, 533-535,<i> </i>148-151,
365-370, 389.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn45"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref45"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn45;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[45]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn45;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn45;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>9-10;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn46"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref46"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn46;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[46]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn46;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn46;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> William G.
Borchert, <i>The Lois Wilson Story: When Love Is Not Enough</i> (Center
City, MN: Hazelden, 2005), 168-173; Bill W., <i>My First 40 Years, </i>161;
<i>The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their
Last Major Talks</i> (NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1972,
1975), 10: “Time went by, and he had not created a single convert, not one. As
we express it, no one had jelled. He worked tirelessly, without no thought of
saving his own strength or time, but nothing seemed to register.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn47"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref47"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn47;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[47]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn47;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn47;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>11-12: “Now the interesting part of
all this is not the sordid details, but the situation we two fellows were in.
We had both been associated with the Oxford Group, Bill in New York
for five months, and I in Akron for two and a half years. Bill had
acquired their idea of service. I had not, but I had done an immense amount of
reading they had recommended. I had refreshed my memory of the Good Book, and I
had had excellent training in that as a youngster. They told me I should go to
their meetings regularly, and I did, every week. They said I should affiliate
myself with some church, and we did that. They also said I should cultivate the
habit of prayer, and I did that—at least, to a considerable extent for me. But
I got tight every night, and I mean that. It wasn’t once in a while—it was
practically every night.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn48"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref48"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn48;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[48]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn48;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn48;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>69-79.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn49"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref49"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn49;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[49]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn49;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn49;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>13-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn50"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref50"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn50;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[50]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn50;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn50;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR. BOB
and Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>131; Garth Lean, <i>Frank Buchman a Life </i>(London,
Constable, 1985) 152: “[James] Newton quotes the agreement worked out in those
years with the Oxford Group in Akron. ‘You look after drunken men. We’ll try to
look after a drunken world,’ Williams had said to Wilson and Smith, who became
world-famous as ‘Bill W. and Dr. Bob of AA’.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn51"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref51"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn51;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[51]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn51;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn51;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<span style="color: white;"><a href="http://health.groups.%20yahoo.com/group/AAHistoryLovers/message/161" target="_blank">http://health.groups. yahoo.com/group/AAHistoryLovers/message/161</a></span>, pages.1.and
7. There is a word of caution about the accuracy of these conclusions of
Katie Treat. She was a member of the alcoholic groups. But, at best, her
purported statements do not explain the fact that the Akron “regular” meeting
at T. Henry’s home occurred only once a week. The Christian Fellowship meetings
of AAs in Dr. Bob’s home and elsewhere occurred daily. And the record is not
very clear in A.A. publications or elsewhere as to why Akron AAs split from the
Oxford Group folks. Nor does Katie Treat talk about the fact that often AAs met
in one room at the Williams home while Oxford Group people met in another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn52"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref52"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn52;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[52]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn52;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn52;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn53"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref53"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn53;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[53]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn53;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn53;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B. and
Ken B., <i>The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide,</i> 3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei,
HI: Paradise Research Publication, Inc., 2010), 57-68.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn54"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref54"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn54;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[54]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn54;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn54;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>, 13-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn55"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref55"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn55;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[55]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn55;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn55;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B. and
Ken B., <i>The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide,</i> 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., 47-59.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn56"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref56"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn56;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[56]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn56;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn56;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR. BOB
and the Good Oldtimers, </i>56-60.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn57"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref57"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn57;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[57]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn57;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn57;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR. BOB
and the Good Oldtimers, </i>60.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn58"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref58"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn58;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[58]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn58;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn58;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>10-12; <i>Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>4<sup>th</sup>
ed., 178-181;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn59"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref59"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn59;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[59]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn59;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn59;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pass It On</i>,” 174.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn60"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref60"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn60;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[60]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn60;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn60;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR. BOB
and the Good Oldtimers, </i>121, 131-132, 135-136, 142.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn61"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref61"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn61;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[61]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn61;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn61;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR. BOB
and the Good Oldtimers, </i>131.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn62"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref62"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn62;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[62]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn62;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn62;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The Dick
B. Christian Recovery Guide, </i>3<sup>rd</sup> ed., 69-85.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn63"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref63"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn63;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[63]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn63;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn63;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>DR. BOB
and the Good Oldtimers, </i>133-34<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn64"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref64"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn64;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[64]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn64;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn64;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> See a
complete replica of the Big Book Prospectus titled <i>Alcoholics Anonymous. </i><a href="http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-prospectus.html"><span style="color: white;">http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-prospectus.html</span></a>, and also The 100 Men Corporation Prospectus at <a href="http://aamo.info/aa/history/100men/"><span style="color: white;">http://aamo.info/aa/history/100men/</span></a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn65"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref65"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn65;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[65]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn65;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn65;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>“Pass It
On,” </i>194-96.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn66"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref66"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn66;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[66]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn66;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn66;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>New
Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A.</i>, Pittsburgh ed. (Kihei,
HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc.). 146-172, 340-345, 361-371, 374,
383-384, 389, 531-552, 555-559.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn67"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref67"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn67;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[67]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn67;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn67;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>“Pass It
On,”</i> p. 198: “The very first draft or the Twelve Steps, as Bill wrote
then that night, has been lost;” p. 202: “Final editing of the book was done by
Tom Uzzell. . . . Uzzell cut the book by at least a third (some say half—from
800 to 400 pages). . .;” See also Dick B., <i>Turning Point, </i>which lists
the many manuscripts found at Stepping Stones and elsewhere, pp. 10-33,
99-104, 425-428, 455, 652. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn68"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref68"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn68;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[68]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn68;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn68;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Language of the Heart</i> (NY: The AA Grapevine, Inc., 1988), 296-298.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn69"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref69"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn69;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[69]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn69;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn69;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>13-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn70"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref70"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn70;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[70]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn70;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn70;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
James Club, </i>1-24.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn71"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref71"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn71;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[71]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn71;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn71;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>Dr.
Bob and His Library: A Major A.A. Spiritual Source, </i>3<sup>rd</sup> ed.
(Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1998, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn72"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref72"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn72;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[72]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn72;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn72;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Wally P., <i>But
for the Grace Of God . . . How Intergroups & Central Offices Carried the
Message of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1 940’s</i> (Wheeling, WV: The Bishop of
Books, 1995), 43-45.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the Grace of God, </i>32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn74"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref74"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn74;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[74]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn74;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn74;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Oxford Group & Alcoholics Anonymous: A Design for Living That Worked.</i>
Newton ed., <a href="http://www.dickb.com/Oxford.shtml"><span style="color: white;">www.dickb.com/Oxford.shtml</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn75"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref75"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn75;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[75]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn75;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn75;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>Twelve
Steps for You: Take the Twelve Steps with the Big Book, A.A. History, and the
Good Book at Your Side</i>, 4<sup>th</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research
Publications, Inc., 2005), 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn76"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref76"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn76;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[76]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn76;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn76;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>Real
Twelve Step History.</i> <a href="http://www.dickb.com/realhistory.shtml"><span style="color: white;">www.dickb.com/realhistory.shtml</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn77"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref77"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn77;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[77]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn77;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn77;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>Dr.
Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Bible as a Youngster
in Vermont.</i> <a href="http://www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml"><span style="color: white;">www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml</span></a>; <i>The
Conversion of Bill W.: </i><a href="http://www.dickb.com/conversion.shtml"><span style="color: white;">www.dickb.com/conversion.shtml</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn78"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref78"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn78;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[78]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn78;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn78;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Robert E.
Speer, <i>The Principles of Jesus Applied to Some Questions of Today.</i> (NY:
Fleming H. Revell, 1902).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn79"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref79"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn79;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[79]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn79;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn79;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Henry Burt
Wright, <i>The Will of God and a Man’s Lifework</i> (NY: The Young Men’s
Christian Association Press, 1909).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn80"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref80"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn80;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[80]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn80;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn80;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The Dick
B. Christian Recovery Guide,</i> 3<sup>rd</sup> ed, 74-76.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn81"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref81"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn81;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[81]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn81;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn81;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B.,
“Alcoholics Anonymous and Dr. Silkworth’s Affirmation of Their ‘Cure’ for
Alcoholism,” <a href="http://improveourconsciouscontact.blogspot.com/2009/04/aa-history-fragment-number-ten.html"><span style="color: white;">http://improveourconsciouscontact.blogspot.com/2009/04/aa-history-fragment-number-ten.html</span></a>;
accessed 12/28/11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn82"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref82"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn82;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[82]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn82;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn82;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Richard K.,
<i>So You Think Drunks Can’t Be Cured? Press Releases by Witnesses to the Cure </i>([Haverhill,
Mass.]: Golden Text Publishing Company, 2003).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn83"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref83"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn83;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[83]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn83;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn83;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous, </i>4<sup>th</sup> ed., pp. 179-180, 191.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn84"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref84"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn84;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[84]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn84;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn84;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mitchell
K., <i>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, 1997), 133.<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn85"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref85"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn85;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[85]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn85;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn85;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>257, note 28.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn86"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref86"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn86;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[86]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn86;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn86;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Language of the Heart, </i>200.<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn87"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref87"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn87;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[87]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn87;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn87;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The Book
That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous</i>
(Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn88"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref88"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn88;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[88]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn88;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn88;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>166 (italics added).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn89"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref89"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn89;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[89]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn89;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn89;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In a phone
conversation I had with Bill Pittman, Director of Historical Information at
Hazelden, Bill told me that Ruth Hock (the secretary who had typed all the
manuscripts for Bill) said that many pages containing Christian and biblical
materials were thrown out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn90"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref90"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn90;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[90]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn90;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn90;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>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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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn91"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref91"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn91;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[91]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn91;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn91;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>The
Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous, </i>257.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn92"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref92"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn92;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[92]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn92;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn92;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Lois W., <i>Lois
Remembers, </i>92.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn93"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref93"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn93;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[93]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn93;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn93;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dick B., <i>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), 19-79.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn94"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref94"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn94;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[94]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn94;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn94;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>The
Language of the Heart, </i>200.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn95"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref95"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn95;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[95]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn95;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn95;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>64: “deflation at depth,” 68: “deflation at great
depth;” Bill W., <i>My First 40 Years, </i>154: “Ego deflation at great depth
was the key to the riddle.” William L. White, <i>Slaying the Dragon: The
History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America</i> (Bloomington, IL:
Chestnut Health Systems/Lighthouse Institute, 1998), 144: “deflation at depth
experience of surrender.” Dick B. and Ken B., <i>The Dick B. Christian Recovery
Guide,</i> 3<sup>rd</sup> ed. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publication, Inc.,
2010),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn96"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref96"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn96;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[96]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn96;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn96;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAHistory%20Lovers/message/161"><span style="color: white;">http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAHistory
Lovers/message/161</span></a>, pages 3, 4, 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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page 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn98"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref98"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn98;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[98]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn98;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn98;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, </i>166-167.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_edn99"></a><a href="http://www.dickb.com/articles/Darkness_Be_Gone.shtml#_ednref99"><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn99;"><sup><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[99]</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn99;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _edn99;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Lois W., <i>Lois
Remembers, </i>113.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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