The Conversion of Bill W

This is the account of Bill Wilson's religious training as a youngster in Vermont; his study of the Bible; the involvement of his grandparents in the East Dorset Congregational Church located between their respective homes; Bill's own experience in the church, its Sunday school, and its revival meetings. It also points to Bill's extensive religious training during the four years he attended nearby Burr and Burton Academy. There Bill attended daily chapel with its sermons, Scripture reading, and worship. Like all students at Burr and Burton, Bill attended Manchester Congregational Church. Bill took a four-year Bible study course. And he became president of the school's YMCA. Back of it all was his repeated hearing of his alcoholic grandfather's conversion on a mountaintop and the grandfather's deliverance from alcoholism for the rest of his life. Then follow Bill's dark years when he turned his back on God due to the unexpected death of his girl friend Bertha Bamford. Years later, in the last throes of his alcoholism, Bill's doctor (William D. Silkworth) told Bill that the Great Physician could cure him. Shortly, Bill's Burr and Burton friend visited him, told Bill of his own decisi