Author: Glenn C.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595348785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read." The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them. This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A. began during the 1940's and 50's in the cities and towns along the St. Joseph river, as it wound its way through Indiana and Michigan to empty into the Great Lakes. But then all across the country, people struggling with alcoholism and addiction began asking for copies, and psychotherapists and counselors too. It spoke to the heart, they said. It made the twelve step program come alive and showed how it really worked. And above all, they reported, they had found that the words of these men and women were filled with a kind of spiritual wisdom and deep compassion which had the power to heal the soul. So this new edition of The Factory Owner & the Convict has now been prepared, with the last half now printed as a separate volume entitled The St. Louis Gambler & the Railroad Man.
The St. Louis Gambler and the Railroad Man
Author: Glenn C.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595348785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read." The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them. This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A. began during the 1940's and 50's in the cities and towns along the St. Joseph river, as it wound its way through Indiana and Michigan to empty into the Great Lakes. But then all across the country, people struggling with alcoholism and addiction began asking for copies, and psychotherapists and counselors too. It spoke to the heart, they said. It made the twelve step program come alive and showed how it really worked. And above all, they reported, they had found that the words of these men and women were filled with a kind of spiritual wisdom and deep compassion which had the power to heal the soul. So this new edition of The Factory Owner & the Convict has now been prepared, with the last half now printed as a separate volume entitled The St. Louis Gambler & the Railroad Man.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595348785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read." The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them. This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A. began during the 1940's and 50's in the cities and towns along the St. Joseph river, as it wound its way through Indiana and Michigan to empty into the Great Lakes. But then all across the country, people struggling with alcoholism and addiction began asking for copies, and psychotherapists and counselors too. It spoke to the heart, they said. It made the twelve step program come alive and showed how it really worked. And above all, they reported, they had found that the words of these men and women were filled with a kind of spiritual wisdom and deep compassion which had the power to heal the soul. So this new edition of The Factory Owner & the Convict has now been prepared, with the last half now printed as a separate volume entitled The St. Louis Gambler & the Railroad Man.
The Factory Owner & the Convict
Author: Glenn C.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595348726
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read." The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them. This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A. began during the 1940's and 50's in the cities and towns along the St. Joseph river, as it wound its way through Indiana and Michigan to empty into the Great Lakes. But then all across the country, people struggling with alcoholism and addiction began asking for copies, and psychotherapists and counselors too. It spoke to the heart, they said. It made the twelve step program come alive and showed how it really worked. And above all, they reported, they had found that the words of these men and women were filled with a kind of spiritual wisdom and deep compassion which had the power to heal the soul. So this new edition of The Factory Owner & the Convict has now been prepared, with the last half now printed as a separate volume entitled The St. Louis Gambler & the Railroad Man.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595348726
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read." The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them. This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A. began during the 1940's and 50's in the cities and towns along the St. Joseph river, as it wound its way through Indiana and Michigan to empty into the Great Lakes. But then all across the country, people struggling with alcoholism and addiction began asking for copies, and psychotherapists and counselors too. It spoke to the heart, they said. It made the twelve step program come alive and showed how it really worked. And above all, they reported, they had found that the words of these men and women were filled with a kind of spiritual wisdom and deep compassion which had the power to heal the soul. So this new edition of The Factory Owner & the Convict has now been prepared, with the last half now printed as a separate volume entitled The St. Louis Gambler & the Railroad Man.
Changed by Grace
Author: Glenn Chesnut
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595406807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Victor C. Kitchen was a New York City advertising executive who wrote one of the Oxford Group's most important books. He also went to the same Oxford Group meetings as Bill Wilson, who later became the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is a book about A. A.'s roots in the Oxford Group, as seen through the pages of Kitchen's work. It explains how the key ideas, which the two movements shared, arose out of the evolution of the modern evangelical movement. The author begins with John Wesley's Aldersgate experience in 1738 and traces this understanding of the healing power of grace down to Kitchen's and Bill W's time, traversing en route the world of nineteenth century revivalism, the Keswick holiness movement, and the early twentieth century foreign missionary effort. The great theme, around which all of this is centered, is that of God's grace as the power to change human character itself. This book shows what faith and grace are really about. It shows how even faith mixed with doubt can lead us into true spiritual awakening, and it explains the basic nuts and bolts required to obtain a constant conscious contact with a God of our understanding. "Each century produces a small handful of great spiritual books. I believe strongly that Changed by Grace is going to prove one of the greatest of our present century. The best way to describe it is to say that it does for us today what William James' Varieties of Religious Experience did for the world of a hundred years ago."-John Barleycorn in The Waynedale News.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595406807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Victor C. Kitchen was a New York City advertising executive who wrote one of the Oxford Group's most important books. He also went to the same Oxford Group meetings as Bill Wilson, who later became the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is a book about A. A.'s roots in the Oxford Group, as seen through the pages of Kitchen's work. It explains how the key ideas, which the two movements shared, arose out of the evolution of the modern evangelical movement. The author begins with John Wesley's Aldersgate experience in 1738 and traces this understanding of the healing power of grace down to Kitchen's and Bill W's time, traversing en route the world of nineteenth century revivalism, the Keswick holiness movement, and the early twentieth century foreign missionary effort. The great theme, around which all of this is centered, is that of God's grace as the power to change human character itself. This book shows what faith and grace are really about. It shows how even faith mixed with doubt can lead us into true spiritual awakening, and it explains the basic nuts and bolts required to obtain a constant conscious contact with a God of our understanding. "Each century produces a small handful of great spiritual books. I believe strongly that Changed by Grace is going to prove one of the greatest of our present century. The best way to describe it is to say that it does for us today what William James' Varieties of Religious Experience did for the world of a hundred years ago."-John Barleycorn in The Waynedale News.
God and Spirituality
Author: Glenn F. Chesnut
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450228542
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
This book takes us on a journey through three thousand years of history, showing us men and women searching for God and finding the answers to their quest in an amazingly diverse variety of life experiences. The author introduces us to pagan Greeks and Romans, ancient Hebrew authors, Christians (Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant) from all periods of history, the physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, the mathematician Kurt Gdel, existentialist philosophers, process theologians, New Thought teachers, and the great spiritual masters of the modern twelve step program.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450228542
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
This book takes us on a journey through three thousand years of history, showing us men and women searching for God and finding the answers to their quest in an amazingly diverse variety of life experiences. The author introduces us to pagan Greeks and Romans, ancient Hebrew authors, Christians (Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant) from all periods of history, the physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, the mathematician Kurt Gdel, existentialist philosophers, process theologians, New Thought teachers, and the great spiritual masters of the modern twelve step program.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals ...
Author: Missouri. General Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Consists of reports of state officers and departments issued as appendices to the House journals and the Senate journals from 1840 to 1867.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Consists of reports of state officers and departments issued as appendices to the House journals and the Senate journals from 1840 to 1867.
The Annalist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General Assembly, State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. General Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics
Author: Bruce L. Mouser
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"As Mouser shows, Scott spent his life figuring out--and satisfying--men's interests with liquor, gambling, and women, and . . . [he] refused to be complicit in backing politicians who took him and the broader base of first-generation black voters for dupes. . . . Scott saw the political game for what it was: a game of power."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"As Mouser shows, Scott spent his life figuring out--and satisfying--men's interests with liquor, gambling, and women, and . . . [he] refused to be complicit in backing politicians who took him and the broader base of first-generation black voters for dupes. . . . Scott saw the political game for what it was: a game of power."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Gambler's Wife
Author: Malinda Jenkins
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a Kentucky farmer. Spunky and rebellious, she liked men and married three. With her third husband, a professional gambler, Malinda bounced across the West, gaining financial independence from various enterprises. When writer Jesse Lilienthal met Malinda in 1930, she was a widow in her eighties and spent every afternoon at the racetrack. Her lively story is also the story of the American West.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a Kentucky farmer. Spunky and rebellious, she liked men and married three. With her third husband, a professional gambler, Malinda bounced across the West, gaining financial independence from various enterprises. When writer Jesse Lilienthal met Malinda in 1930, she was a widow in her eighties and spent every afternoon at the racetrack. Her lively story is also the story of the American West.