We Began to Count Noses - Silkworth.net

Conclusion
We have endeavored to provide an accurate list of who the First Forty men
and women might have been that Bill and Bob counted up that October
afternoon. As I write it dawns on me that some seventy two years ago the count
was conducted and there were but forty men and women who had found the
Pathway to a New Freedom and a New Happiness. By many accounts, more
than two million men and women have now followed “Our Path” and many are
happily living our “Way of Life.” Anyone, anywhere who spends anytime upon
The Golden Road of Devotion should be considered a success. Dates of sobriety, the
order with which they were achieved, the number of slips, where or how our
devotees found The Path are not of great concern to us. For those who had been
first would ultimately be the servants to us all and their love and humility would
take many forms and shapes. We will do well to always remember that His
thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways.
“The Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy all inclusive; never exclusive or
forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men and
women.”
We provide our final list of the First Forty Devotees, the “Noses Counted” in
alphabetical order, listed by the year of their appearance on
The Golden Road of Devotion.
“By their fruit you will know them”
“There is a moment in the life of a man, a moment of choice, a moment of decision,
when the original purpose of God is achieved”