Our little children
hovering round us weep, most starved to death, we've naught for them to eat.
All this distress is justly on us, comes for the accrued use we made of rum.
Occom
Mohegan
This
painful past may be of infinite value to other families still struggling with
their problem. We think each family which has been relieved owes something to
those who have not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be
only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their
hiding places. Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very
thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought
that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have--the
key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery
for them.
Big
Book pg. 12
The
head of the house ought to remember that he is mainly to blame for what befell
his home. He can scarcely square the account in his lifetime...
Big
Book pg. 127