As Bill Sees It
by Bill Wilson
A wonderful book of encouraging thoughts from one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Token Shop is happy to happy to provide this book to our customers. The Token Shop is in no way affiliated with or associated with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, and does not wish to impede their continued efforts to sell literature. These, and other literature based items on our website are sold as a matter of convenience to our customers, who can now combine the shipping expense of coin and literature purchases to save additional money.
An excerpt from the back of the book:
"DEAR FRIENDS:
Since 1938, the greatest part of my A.A. life has been spent in
helping to create, design, manage, and insure the solvency
and effectiveness of A.A.'s world services -- the office of
which has enabled our Fellowship to function all over the
globe, and as a unified whole.
It is no exaggeration to say that, under their trustees, these
all important services have accounted for much of our
present size and over-all effectiveness.
The A.A. General Service Office is by far the largest single
carrier of the A.A. message. It has well related A.A. to the
troubled world in which we live. It has fostered the spread of
our Fellowship everywhere. A.A. World Services, Inc., stands
ready to serve the special needs of any group or isolated
individual, no matter the distance or language. Its many
years of accumulated experience are available to us all.
The members of our trusteeship -- the General Service Board
of A.A. -- will, in the future, be our primary leaders in all of
our world affairs. This high responsibility has long since
been delegated to them; they are the successors in world
service to Dr. Bob and to me, and they are directly
accountable to A.A. as a whole.
This is the legacy of world-service responsibility that we
vanishing old timers are leaving to you, the A.A.'s of today
and tomorrow. We know that you will guard, support, and
cherish this world legacy as the greatest collective
responsibility that A.A.has or ever can have.
Yours in trust, and in affection,
Bill
Bill W. died on January 24, 1971."
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