From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Endeavor and
sometimes to Wednesday evening prayer ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes to Wednesday evening prayer meeting.
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... endeavor to
get me straightened around.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
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