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October 1952

But for the Grace of God. .

THE words of John Bradford, English Protestant martyr, are a familiar motto in nearly every room where AA group meetings are in session. Four centuries ago, in 1552 A.D., the pastor of London's St. Paul's is supposed to have said: "But for the grace of God there goes John Bradford," Whenever he saw evil-doers taken to jail.

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