And So From My Heart I Say
November 2025 | Early days of AA | Featured Section

And So From My Heart I Say

Reverend Shoemaker’s thoughts about helping alcoholics and the very early days of AA

It does not seem many years ago since we invited some of our gentleman-drunk friends to come and stay at Calvary House. There was a “second floor” to old Calvary Mission, down in the Gas House District, where some of the men who knew better days and were “standing” in the newfound way of life were living together in a kind of simple spiritual community.

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