Evolution of the Twelfth Step

I HAD A TOTAL, absolute faith in AA when I became a member, in 1943. I was willing to try to do anything AA said I should do. At that time, not very long after Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post article, there was a great deal of Twelfth Step work to be done and not many members to do it. Within a few weeks of joining AA, I was asked to make some Twelfth Step calls. I most certainly did not want to; I felt that I knew almost nothing about AA. But the answer to that was "You know a lot more than the guy you're going to see." So I went.