How did Bill Wilson, Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous get well?

First, Dr. William D. Silkworth told him that the Great Physician Jesus Christ could cure him. Then Bills long-time friend and drinking buddy Ebby Thacher told Bill that he was living at Calvary Rescue Mission, had got religion, and that God had done for him what he could not do for himself. Bill quickly concluded that Ebby had been reborn. And Bill went to Calvary Rescue Mission seeking what Ebby Thacher had found. Bill went to the altar at the Mission, made a decision for Christ, and soon wrote that he too had been born again. Bill was in a deep depression and decided to call on the Great Physician for help. He wandered drunk for several days, checked into Towns Hospital, cried out to God for help, had his white light experience, believed he had been in the presence of the God of the Scriptures, and soon said he never again doubted the existence of God. Bill Wilson never drank again. In fact, on his discharge from the hospital, he went about with a Bible under his arm and stating, ...  more