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February 1953

In my belief the most important responsibility the sponsor has to the new member, is example.

There is no use running around like a hen on a hot griddle while preaching “easy does it.”

No use allowing bigotry to ooze from one’s every utterance while talking about an open mind.

No use boasting about one’s great plans for the future years while attempting to show the virtue of the twenty-four-hour program.

No use for the sponsor to describe the beauties of contented sobriety to the newcomer while he, the sponsor, is on a “dry drunk.”

Example is man’s most powerful force for good or evil. To me, the debts hardest to repay are to those I harmed by bad example, and thus do I believe that my greatest responsibility to those whom God has given me the grace to sponsor, and to AA as a whole, is the good example I can give by practicing the principles of the Twelve Steps in all my affairs.

G. K.

Kirkland Lake, Ontario