October 26

October 26 – AM          Page 159-160, A Vision For You, Chapter 11

A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more.  Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone’s home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.  In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.  Aside from fellowship and sociability, the prime object was to provide a time and place where new people might bring their problems.

October 26 – PM          Page 131-132, The Family Afterward, Chapter 9

Alcoholics who have derided religious people will be helped by such contacts.  Being possessed of a spiritual experience, the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with them on many matters.  If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness and pleasure.  He and his family can be a bright spot in such congregations.  He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled world.  We intend the foregoing as a helpful suggestion only.  So far as we are concerned, there is nothing obligatory about it.  As non-denominational people, we cannot make up others’ minds for them.  Each individual should consult his own conscience.