HERE IS WHAT THE 1956 CONFERENCE DID

EVEN OUR BUSINESS MEETINGS ARE SPIRITUAL, said the inner voice, as we stood waiting for Bill to lead the closing session of the Sixth General Service Conference of AA in the Lord's Prayer. They have to be, the voice went on, as we joined in the farewell bustle of seventy-five Conference delegates, preparing for return journeys to "AA Land" far and wide in North America and overseas. . .otherwise we couldn't stay alive and well as a group, any more than we could as individuals, if we let our old destructive ways take over.