This is Archie T. speaking at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on December the 26th, 1948. Mr. Speaker, we are about to hear with Archie T., looked upon by the A.A. members of this joint as the founder of L.O. in the Fifth City. Ladies and gentlemen, in the words of that great Galilean who lived almost 2,000 years ago and whose birth we are commemorating this Christmas Day, when you are well, you need not a physician. I come here to heal the sick. And of all the channels at his command, he chose as his estimate one alcoholic helping another. And tonight's speaker, ladies and gentlemen, is one of those estimates that has carried the message of A.A. to the alcoholic population. So it is your privilege, and both my pleasure, to turn this meeting over to Arch Probit, our founder. Thank you. Thank you. This is a wonderful place to be on Christmas night. I can think of a lot of places that all of us were on other Christmas nights. That didn't turn out as well as this occupation of ours tonight will turn out for us. In fact, I only have to think back to 11 years ago this Christmas night to think of things that were not fitting and proper for Christmas. I remember distinctly that I was very drunk and was not doing any of the things that I had been asked to do. However, I won't go into that or very much of my drinking career because I've been asked to speak particularly tonight on the history of A.A. in Detroit, the early history. In order to do that adequately, I'll have to skim over my own story down to a point where I approach the necessary conditions to join A.A. In my case, that meant, because I was a stubborn and headstrong and conceited sort of a guy, that meant getting myself completely down and out before it occurred to me even vaguely that anything might be wrong with me. Before I launch into that part of the story, I'd like to say that your chairman used an expression which I hope you will bear in mind when I'm talking about my story and what little part I played in the development of A.A. locally. He used the expression, the instrument of God. And I wish you…