Announcing!
The New Dick B. and Ken B. Book
Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the Green
Mountain Men of Vermont
The Roots of Early A.A.’s
Original Program
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ISBN 978-1-885803-53-5
Copyright 2012 Anonymous. All rights reserved
Paradise Research Publications, Inc.
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii
Price: $19.95
Description
Bill W. and Dr. Bob,
the Green Mountain Men of Vermont: The Roots of Early A.A.’s Original Program
by Dick B. and Ken B. reveals that A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob had very
similar Christian upbringings. It discusses what they learned from their
respective families, Congregational churches, revival and temperance meetings
(in Bill’s case); Young Men’s Christian Association ties; and the strong
emphasis on the Bible at their respective academies. The book examines how they
were influenced by their Congregational Church-dominated academies, which
required daily chapel (with sermons, Scripture reading, prayer, and hymns), and
daily exposure to the Bible and prayer meetings. It considers Bill’s required
four-year Bible study course at Burr and Burton Academy and required church
attendance. The book discusses what Bill learned from his Vermont friends Ebby
Thacher, Rowland Hazard, F. Shepard Cornell, Cebra Graves, and Mark Whalon;
from the Christian churches and Sunday schools he attended in Vermont; and from
his Bible study with his grandfather Griffith. The book describes Dr. Bob’s
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor participation, with its stress on
Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, conversions, Bible study, prayer meetings,
Quiet Hour, and reading Christian literature. In short, learn how the roles
played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in the Vermont Christian
upbringings of Bill W. and Dr. Bob led to victory in Akron, Ohio, by men who
had exhausted every human effort to overcome the curse of alcoholism (to use
Dr. Bob’s words.)
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Gloria Deo
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