Milestones in AA

THE YEARS 1939-40. In the weeks following Harry Emerson Fosdick's glowing review of the Big Book, other magazines began to take it seriously. Many reprinted the Fosdick report, others assigned staff reviewers. It is interesting how many of the secular publications took us to heart. Baptist Record, Christian Leader, Friends Intelligencer (Quaker), Zion Herald (Methodist) all united in approval of this new "religion." The Women's Temperance, perhaps prematurely, claimed a close kinship stating, "The Steps to be taken are the same as in an old fashioned Baptist or Methodist conversion. The sinner turns from his life of Sin."