“It starts when you get to a point in life where you can’t go over, above or around any more and you appeal to a higher power.” Speaking with the calm of a man who enjoys peace of mind, tall, spare, middle aged Bill went on. I’m trying to help others without asking ‘gimme’ - and I pray.” Bill advised alcoholics to talk over their problems in confidence, “make what amounts to a confession–an internal house cleaning. “I straightened out my relations with others. In direct, soft spoken narrative he told his story - “the story of a drunk” - and then described the origin of the method that has brought recovery to him and to more than 60,000 alcoholics throughout the nation. the speaker was a man known publicly only as Bill. this straight advise mixed with plenty of common sense was given t some 4500 alcoholics, their friends and relatives, last Sunday night at a public Meeting in Shrine Auditorium. Los Angeles - “It takes cultivation of a habit of prayer and development of a spirit of service to overcome the obsession of alcoholism. Reprinted from The Tidings: Friday, March 26, 1948, page 17
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