and preparation. The team would remain throughout the meetings and handle a number of details. Oxford Group literature was on display. Meetings followed no formal agenda and were not like church meetings, as singing and public prayer were absent. Time was devoted to talks by the team members on subjects such as sin, surrender, quiet time, the four absolutes, guidance, and intelligent witness. However, the Oxford Group had its own song: "On sure foundation Build we God's new nation, strong and clear each year On God's word Shall we stand and build together what none can ever, bridges from man to man, the whole wide earth to span." Slogans Most were coined through Buchman's "quiet time"; he knew slogans would catch attention, be more easily remembered and more readily repeated. They provided simple answers to problems people face in themselves and others. A few are listed below "Pray: stands for Powerful Radiograms Always Yours", "Constipated Christians come clean", "Every man is a force, not a field", "Interesting sinners make compelling saints", "When a man listens, God speaks" "A spiritual radiophone in every home", "Sin blinds, sin binds", "World changing through life-changing" Literature Some of the Oxford Group literature is available online. See references. For Sinners Only by Arthur James Russell (1932) was characterized as the Oxford Group "bible" Soul Surgery by H. A. Walter (1919) What Is the Oxford Group? by The Layman with a Notebook (1933) and The Eight Points of the Oxford Group by C. Irving Benson (1938) About alcoholics who found sobriety in the Oxford Group, there were three autobiographies by Oxford Group members who were active alcoholics which were published in the 1930s. These books provided accounts of the alcoholics' failed attempts to make their lives meaningful until, as a result of their Oxford Group membership, they found a transformation in their lives and sobriety through surrendering to God. The books were; I Was a Pagan by V. C. Kitchen (1934) Life Began Yesterday by Stephen Foot (1935) The Big Bender by Charles Clapp (1938). The stories contained in Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, are very similar in style to these much earlier works. History Campaigns through Europe The Oxford Group conducted campaigns in many European countries. In 1934 a team of 30 visited Norway at the invitation of Carl J. Hambro, President of the Norwegian Parliament. 14,000 people crammed into three meetings in one of Oslo's