This second edition printing August 1902 is in excellent condition. The author of this book Samuel H. Hadley found his sobriety in the Water Street Mission. Click title for the A.A. connection.
After his conversion in the 1880’s Samuel Hadley went to work for Jerry McAuley’s Water Street Mission in NYC. He spent the rest of his life helping the alcoholic/drunkard’s to find sobriety through a conversion with Jesus. His personal story resulted in Rowland Hazard finding sobriety and ultimately in the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Briefly here’s the story; In a talk given by Samuel Shoemaker about the beginning of A.A. he mentions that Rowland Hazard was given a book shortly after his return from Zurich and his visit with Carl Jung. Of course Rowland must have felt as though he had been given a death sentence when Jung told him that the only way that he might recover would be through a profound spiritual conversion. Rowland had been given a copy of the book Varieties of Religious Experience by William James and when he read about the “conversion” of Samuel H. Hadley he found hope. Apparently, the identity that one alcoholics story has on another. After reading the conversation story about Samuel Hadley, Rowland began having his own spiritual conversion. He then sought out a local mission in NY which happened to be the Oxford Group at Calvary Mission. Interesting side note, the first person that Rowland met when he attended the Oxford Group Mission was Samuel Hadley son Henry Hadley who was employed by the mission. For more information about Samuel Hadley read the Varieties of Religious Experience.
After his conversion in the 1880’s Samuel Hadley went to work for Jerry McAuley’s Water Street Mission in NYC. He spent the rest of his life helping the alcoholic/drunkard’s to find sobriety through a conversion with Jesus. His personal story resulted in Rowland Hazard finding sobriety and ultimately in the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Briefly here’s the story;
In a talk given by Samuel Shoemaker about the beginning of A.A. he mentions that Rowland Hazard was given a book shortly after his return from Zurich and his visit with Carl Jung. Of course Rowland must have felt as though he had been given a death sentence when Jung told him that the only way that he might recover would be through a profound spiritual conversion.
Rowland had been given a copy of the book Varieties of Religious Experience by William James and when he read about the “conversion” of Samuel H. Hadley he found hope. Apparently, the identity that one alcoholics story has on another. After reading the conversation story about Samuel Hadley, Rowland began having his own spiritual conversion. He then sought out a local mission in NY which happened to be the Oxford Group at Calvary Mission.
Interesting side note, the first person that Rowland met when he attended the Oxford Group Mission was Samuel Hadley son Henry Hadley who was employed by the mission.
For more information about Samuel Hadley read the Varieties of Religious Experience.
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