The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks, credited to Philip Ilott Roberts, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks by Philip Ilott Roberts. Read in English by Curt Walton After an introduction to the Ole Jerry McAuley Mission in the year 1912, many wonderful stories of destitute alcoholics and addicts making a quick recovery through a surrender to Christ Jesus. The book gives glimpses that the years of the highly esteemed Samuel H. Hadley have allowed for the “Evangelical Podium” to firmly take root in the Mission and is corroding the original purpose (the original purpose of this mission was to provide a place for chronic alcoholics and addicts who had spiritual experiences during incarceration to continue it outside of prison and not end up back at their old haunts after being repeatedly rejected by churches and society). The book tells of the on-goings in the new Ole Jerry McAuley Mission at 316 Water Street, NYC, during the early 1900's. Many things seem to have changed since the 1870's when Jerry McAuley ran the mission. First, anyone was welcome. Second, the years of sobriety touted in this book were two to five, as opposed to the decades and quarter centuries in its earlier times. Thirdly, advertising their mission, or testifying for the mission was the goal as opposed to living a spiritually guided life. This book tells of many great successes but it wasn't achieving the same high success rate. (Summary by Curt Walton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks
• Author credits: Philip Ilott Roberts
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:25:09

Catalogue topics

• alcoholism
• drunk
• chronic
• hopeless

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:32
2. 01 - Ch. 1 - The Greatest of These — 17:06
3. 02 - Ch 2. - God's Good Man — 10:58
4. 03 - Ch. 3 - De Profundis — 10:36
5. 04 - Ch 4. - The Breaking of the Bread — 14:34
6. 05 - Ch 5. - Into a Far Country — 18:48
7. 06 - Ch 6. - Saved to Serve — 10:30
8. 07 - Ch 7. - Sons of Ishmael — 12:36
9. 08 - Ch 8. - The Portion of Manasseh — 10:15
10. 09 - Ch 9. - ''Out of Nazareth'' — 17:50
11. 10 - Ch 10. - The Blossoming Desert — 14:24
12. 11 - Ch 11. - By a Great Deliverance — 14:21
13. 12 - Ch 12. - The Lifted Bondage — 6:48
14. 13 - Ch 13. - The Second Spring — 14:17
15. 14 - Ch 14. - Saved to the Uttermost — 9:14
16. 15 - Ch 15. - Pilgrims of the Night — 19:20

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