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The founders of the modern recovery movement, including Bill
Wilson, Bob Smith, and other early AAs, were deeply influenced by a
handful of inspirational authors, from whom they received practical
guidance, key insights, and concrete ideas. Their explorations of
inspirational literature and useable spiritual methods gave rise to
the program of spiritual self-help now practiced around the world
as the twelve-step tradition.
Now, some of the core books that both inspired and were produced
by the early twelve-steppers and recovery pioneers - including the
first edition of the 1939 landmark "Alcoholic Anonymous" - are
collected in this powerful resource, "The Recovery Bible."
Here are early writings by the visionaries of recovery. Their work
retains all of its impact and life-changing power - now at the
ready for study, immediate guidance, and a lifetime of
re-exploration in this one volume.
"The Recovery Bible" includes:
-"Alcoholics Anonymous," the original 1939 landmark
- "The Greatest Thing in the World" by Henry Drummond
-"In Tune with the Infinite "by Ralph Waldo Trine
-"The Mental Equivalent "by Emmet Fox
- "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen
-"The 23rd and 91st Psalms"
-"Religion that Works" by the Rev. Sam Shoemaker
-"The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James
Henry Drummond was a Scottish scientist, Free Church minister,
explorer and evangelist who became one of the most influential
religious figures of the Victorian era. Written as a means of
clarifying his own thoughts on the clash between science and
religion, Natural Law and the Spiritual World was published in 1883
to great critical acclaim. Entering the debate on science and
religion using the basis of law, Drummond sets himself apart by
offering 'a property peculiar neither to science nor religion'. He
puts forward the argument that the laws of the natural and
spiritual worlds are not completely separate, and explores the
connections between them. He concludes by suggesting that the
scientific principle of continuity extends from the physical world
to the spiritual, offering common ground to people on both sides of
the science/religion divide.
The Lowell Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1836,
supports an annual series of distinguished lectures. Henry
Drummond, the influential Scottish scientist, Free Church minister,
explorer and evangelist published his Lowell Lectures as The Ascent
of Man in 1894. This provocative book examines Darwinism in a
Christian context. It describes the rise of man, who is considered
the highest purpose of the universe, and his relations with the
lower animals. In particular, it addresses the question of altruism
and its role in promoting the survival of the fittest, which
Drummond argues had been overlooked. Drummond claims, unlike
traditional evolutionary theory, that the force of evolution is not
only the struggle for life, but also the struggle for the life of
others. His book, which aroused great interest in its time, remains
of importance for historians and philosophers of science today.
New large-type edition of Henry Drummond's classic sermons on Love
and the Christian life.
I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during my
visit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around the
fire, they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture.
Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask Henry
Drummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew a
small Testament from his hip pocket, opened it at the 13th chapter
of I Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of Love. It
seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful, and I
determined not to rest until I brought Henry Drummond to Northfield
to deliver that address. Since then I have requested the principals
of my schools to have it read before the students every year. The
one great need in our Christian life is love, more love to God and
to eacho ther. Would that we could all move into that Love chapter,
and live there. This volume contains, in addition to the address on
Love, some other addresses which I trust will bring help and
blessing to many.
In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de
Lesseps (1805 1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal
through the Isthmus of Suez, and, thanks to his good relations with
the Viceroy of Egypt, won approval for the project in the face of
British and Turkish opposition. This 1870 lecture reveals de
Lesseps' enchantment with the desert and its people, his
determination to complete the canal, and his annoyance at British
antagonism. By 1875, when this English translation by Sir Henry
Wolff was published, the canal had been open for six years and the
British position had shifted dramatically. The government bought
Egypt's shares in the Canal Company, and Wolff was chosen by
Disraeli to speak in Parliament in support of the purchase. De
Lessep's book remains an invaluable source on the canal, the
politics of the major powers, and European attitudes towards the
Middle East.
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