December 14 in A.A. History

In 1934 [13th?], Edwin “Ebby” T. [near right] visited Bill W. [far right] at the Charles B. Towns Hospital, where Bill had been admitted three days earlier. Ebby once again explained the practices of the Oxford Group and may have urged Bill to surrender to the care of Jesus Christ.
    After Ebby left, Bill fell into a deep, dark depression. Eventually, he cried out, “I’ll do anything! Anything at all! If there be a God, let him show himself!” He then experienced a blinding light and felt an ecstatic sense of freedom and peace. This moment was Bill’s spiritual experience (or “hot flash” or “white light” experience, as he later referred to it).
    When Bill later recounted the event to Dr. William D. Silkworth [left], the medical director at Towns, the doctor replied, “Something has happened to you I don’t understand. But you had better hang on to it.”