BOOK REVIEW
CHRISTIAN HERALD
August 1940
WITNESS: There s a book on alcohol you should read. It is published by The Alcoholic Foundation of New York (P.0. Box 658, Church Street Annex, New York). It’s title: “Alcoholics Anonymous “The unnamed alcoholics write their own stories, and those stories are dynamite.
Two-thirds of them, they claim, have laid the foundation for permanent recovery. “More than half of us have had no relapse at all (after treatment) despite the fact that we have often been pronounced incurable “How were they cured? The method is simple: first of all they admitted they were powerless to overcome alcohol by themselves; second, they came to believe that “a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity;” third, they made a decision to “turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him”
There is more to the cure, but that’s the heart of it. There may be some confirmed drinkers who will sneer at the method and the procedures, but they can’t laugh off the fact that it has worked where other methods and procedures have failed.