Bill Wilson
| Speaker | Bill Wilson |
| Event | AA Meeting — Indianapolis |
| Location | Indianapolis, IN |
| Year | 1966 |
| Era | Pioneer Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 46:23 |
| RS Number | RS-G100 |
Transcript
We've got a lot of goodies on this program, as you know, and our formal AA meeting for Sunday has already started, but we will now hear again from the founder of our great organization, Bill Wilson. Good morning, dear people. In the middle of the 19th century, a new means of communication burst upon the world to set in motion a train of events, of consequences that even now cannot be reckoned. This was the telegraph. It is a matter of great significance, and meaning at least to us, that the first words set over the first wire between Washington and Baltimore were these, and they apparently characterized the inventor. The words were, what hath God wrought. So today, over a retrospect of 30 years, we are watching the building of a new means of communication, characterized not by material things, but a new way of speaking the language of the heart, one to another. And this language is a varied language, and we have participated in one of its magnificent variations in this meeting, having in it these components of science and of the spirit, the only synthesis of any great promise to the world of our time. To have been part of this, I wish to renew the thanks of Lois and myself, indeed may I speak for all of you, in thanks to each of you and to God for these precious hours now drawing to a close. I would like to direct our special gratitude to Don and to Luke and to their co-workers whose selfless efforts have made this occasion possible. I think to a woman and to a man, we are remembering that Don made his demonstration in the face of adversity, the adversity of precarious health, a source of information, our inspiration that will be with us always. Polly's talk, recall other days, the spirit of dedication and of love that characterized that couple will live in this society, within this society forever, and its waves will lap on ever more distant shores. As we heard this last magnificent talk, I began to think of the embryo that was the beginning of AA, that preceded the birth into the new life. And each of us in this far-flung society were in that embryo, but it was a very unpromising womb, for until recent times, the only result could have been a stillbirth…
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