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He was born in Pennsburg , Pennsylvania , the son of a wholesale Liquor salesman and restaurateur and a pious Lutheran mother. Buchman graduated from Mount Airy Seminary and was ordained a Lutheran Minister in June, 1902 . While traveling in ". In 1915 he resigned to travel to East Asia with Evangelist Sherwood Eddy . Upon his return, he began working at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut as an extension lecturer in Personal Evangelism. His time there was difficult , as his reliance on "guidance" meant that he did not always follow the schedules of rules that other faculty members did (such as keeping appointments), and his encouragement of student to do the same created great friction. His s (focused primarily on Pre-marital Sex , Adultery and Masturbation ); 3) restitution for harm done to others in the past; and 4) evangelism of these principles to those who were still "defeated by sin." Early encouragement for the practice of a daily "quiet time" may then have come from a meeting with the Quaker -influenced Baptist , Frederick Brotherton Meyer ( 1847 - 1929 ), who was one of the leading lights of the Keswick Convention evangelical movement. However the decisive influence appears to have been Yale University theology professor Henry Burt Wright ( 1877 - 1923 ) and his 1909 book ''The will of God and a man's lifework'', which was itself influenced by Frederick Brotherton Meyer and Henry Drummond , among others. The founders of Alcoholics Anonymous , William "Bill W." Wilson and Robert "Dr. Bob" Smith were both active members in the Oxford Movement and believed that its principles of the Oxford Groups were the key to overcoming Alcoholism . QUOTES ABOUT
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