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==Early Life==
 
==Early Life==
'''William Samuel Sadler, Jr.''' was born in LaGrange, Illinois, on December 15, 1907, to Drs. William S. And Lena K. Sadler. The first five years of his life were spent in LaGrange. The family then moved to Highland Park. With their growing practice they found commuting difficult and, therefore, moved to Chicago. Their first home in Chicago was on Lincoln Park West, near Francis Parker School, which Bill attended from Kindergarten through high school. He was graduated at the age of fifteen. The following year he enrolled in Northwestern University, where he joined Beta Theta Phi fraternity.
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'''William Samuel Sadler, Jr.''' was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGrange,_Illinois LaGrange, Illinois], on December 15, 1907, to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sadler Drs. William S. And [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Celestia_Kellogg Lena K. Sadler]. The first five years of his life were spent in LaGrange. The family then moved to Highland Park. With their growing practice they found commuting difficult and, therefore, moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,_Illinois Chicago]. Their first home in Chicago was on Lincoln Park West, near Francis Parker School, which Bill attended from Kindergarten through high school. He was graduated at the age of fifteen. The following year he enrolled in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University Northwestern University], where he joined Beta Theta Phi fraternity.
 
==Career==
 
==Career==
Finding himself out of step with the older students at the University, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps. He took his basic training at Parris Island. He was stationed at Quantico, Virginia as well at San Diego.
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Finding himself out of step with the older students at the University, he decided to join the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps United States Marine Corps]. He took his basic training at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parris_Island Parris Island]. He was stationed at Quantico, Virginia as well at San Diego.
  
He served in Haiti and the second Nicaraguan campaigns. Bill was very proud of his Marine service. On his return home at the end of his Marine service he went to work for the National Bank Examiners and that fall enrolled in the University of Chicago with the intention of taking a premedical course, continuing to work Saturdays and summers for the National Bank Examiners, where he obtained some knowledge of the banking business. These were depression days and times were difficult, but Bill was fortunate to be elected Assistant Cashier of the District National Bank of Chicago, which was organized in about 1933. He remained with the District National Bank for approximately 3 years. In 1935 Bill was married. Finding the salary from a banking position inadequate for his marriage status, Bill obtained a position with Standard Oil Company of Indiana. He was connected with the Comptroller's office and acted as investment custodian for their pension fund. After several years in this position, he became a personnel advisor for a firm of consulting engineers, where he worked for two years prior to establishing his own business, Sadler and Associates, this in 1947. He continued as the head of this firm for the remainder of his life and when he died he was President of Sadler and Associates, Inc. The firm continues in operation.
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He served in Haiti and the second Nicaraguan campaigns. Bill was very proud of his Marine service. On his return [[home]] at the end of his Marine service he went to work for the National Bank Examiners and that fall enrolled in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago University of Chicago] with the intention of taking a premedical course, continuing to work Saturdays and summers for the National Bank Examiners, where he obtained some [[knowledge]] of the banking business. These were depression days and times were difficult, but Bill was fortunate to be elected Assistant Cashier of the District National Bank of Chicago, which was organized in about 1933. He remained with the District National Bank for approximately 3 years. In 1935 Bill was [[married]]. Finding the [[salary]] from a banking position inadequate for his marriage [[status]], Bill obtained a position with Standard Oil Company of Indiana. He was connected with the Comptroller's office and acted as investment custodian for their pension fund. After several years in this position, he became a personnel advisor for a firm of consulting engineers, where he worked for two years prior to establishing his own business, Sadler and Associates, this in 1947. He continued as the head of this firm for the remainder of his life and when he died he was President of Sadler and Associates, Inc. The firm continues in operation.
 
==Religious Life==
 
==Religious Life==
From early childhood Bill. received his religious training at home. He was a natural-born teacher, and when the Urantia Papers appeared, Bill became one of the leading exponets of the Urantia teachings. With his father, he was the teacher of the first groups organized for the systematic study of the Urantia Book. He was one of the original Trustees and Vice President of the [http://www.urantia.org Urantia Foundation] and one of the founders and the first President of the Urantia Brotherhood, and was one of its field representatives. He was of invaluable assistance in launching the Urantia movement. There was never a diminution of his interest. In 1960 he organized and became President of the Second Urantia Society of Chicago.
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From early [[childhood]] Bill. received his religious [[training]] at [[home]]. He was a natural-born teacher, and when the [[Urantia Papers]] appeared, Bill became one of the leading exponents of the Urantia teachings. With his father, he was the teacher of the first groups organized for the systematic [[study]] of the Urantia Book. He was one of the original Trustees and Vice President of the [http://www.urantia.org Urantia Foundation] and one of the founders and the first President of the Urantia Brotherhood, and was one of its field representatives. He was of invaluable assistance in launching the [[Urantia movement]]. There was never a diminution of his interest. In 1960 he organized and became President of the Second Urantia Society of Chicago.
==Advancing Studies==
 
For seven years Bill had been writing a commentary on The Urantia Book. This tremendous undertaking remains unfinished. In November, 1962 while on a trip to New York, Bill suffered a stroke. He was immediately returned to Chicago and taken to Wesley Memorial Hospital. Since that time he was in and out of the hospital for long periods of time. He died in this hospital on November 22, 1963.
 
===Origin of Urantia Text===
 
The following is transcribed from a tape recording made in the home of Berkeley Elliott on February 18, 1962.  On this occasion, William S. Sadler, Jr., was talking with the study group there assembled. These are comments which he made on this occasion concerning the origin of the Urantia Papers.
 
====Background====
 
Many years ago my parents, who were physicians, had brought to their attention this individual who had some rather strange things happening to
 
him. In one of the books my father wrote, "The Mind at Mischief", he made mention of this case in the last part of the book – in the Appendix
 
which was published in the 1920's. My father had spook-hunting as a hobby. He was an exposer of mediums. He had two running mates – the
 
head of the psychology department at Northwestern University and Howard Thurston, a professional magician. Take a physician, a psychologist
 
and a magician, and God help the medium. There is a book now out of print which my father wrote called "The Truth About Spiritualism" in
 
which he puts so-called spiritualists as falling into one of two categories. There are practicing frauds – deliberately working for gain or for
 
glory – and there are people who are self-deceived. I think in that book he says "with one possible exception."
 
===='Sleeping Subject'====
 
These two physicians [Dr. and Mrs. Sadler] became interested in this case. This man would go to sleep and he'd talk and what came out was
 
intriguing and different. He was never interested in the lost watch or the stock market or in talking with your Uncle George who had passed on –
 
never anything practical. This was different; distinctly offbeat. About this time a Sunday evening meeting came to be organized at our house. It
 
came about when Pop was giving a commencement address at Ames. I was in High School at the time and he wrote me a letter saying that we
 
were not church people but that Sunday should be productive as well as a day of rest. He asked what I would say if they invited in some friends
 
and they had a discussion group – kind of a forum – and talked about health and history and politics, etc. That group came into existence in, I
 
think, 1922. This group became interested in spiritualism because Pop was writing on that subject at the time.
 
  
My dad was mischievous – there was a mind-reading show – vaudeville at McVickers. Pop attended twice. He took a pair of wire cutters and
 
clipped the wires that hooked the guy in the audience with the gal on the stage. At which point she fainted and they asked if there was a doctor in
 
the audience, and Pop had the gall to go back and take care of her. "At about this time I was in Nicaragua so some of what I tell you is hearsay.
 
1924 to 1928 will be hearsay, but subsequent to 1928 I'll give you direct information. The question came up whether all such phenomena is
 
fraudulent. My dad was an honest guy so he said there was one such case that was a puzzle. So they asked him to tell them about it. So the forum
 
became intrigued with the shorthand notes that had been taken of things this man talked about.
 
====Initial Dialogue====
 
One evening when they were talking to this chap, a kind of an argument came up. They were talking with someone who claimed to be a "Mighty
 
Messenger." They asked if he could prove he was a Mighty Messenger. " No," he said, "but you can't prove I'm not either. If you knew what I
 
know, you wouldn't ask these half-baked questions. You would prepare some of the most deep, searching and far-reaching questions you could
 
possibly imagine."
 
 
My father was half English and half Irish and he got kind of mad – they were checking out this phenomena and here they were being challenged.
 
Pop looked at the others in the group and said, "Lets take him up on it."
 
====First Papers====
 
So the next Sunday when the Forum met the whole group came in on the deal. I was told that approximately five thousand questions were given.
 
Some were silly – how old is God, who created him, and so forth. What happened was this – one day the questions were gone and where the
 
questions were kept was the first of the Urantia Papers and was entitled, "The Universal Father."
 
 
I'll tell you how I think this paper was written. And my theory is not one-hundred percent correct. But it’s the best I can find. Visualize several
 
places in space – points A, B, C and D. I think the papers were dictated or conceived at point A and had we been there when any of these papers
 
were written we would have seen nothing. A Divine Counselor is presenting his concepts in the language of Uversa. A translator is there who
 
translates it into the language of Salvington. There is another translator there who translates from the language of Salvington to the language of
 
Satania and another translator who translates from Satania into English. You cannot translate from Uversa into English because the languages are
 
too far apart. "I suspect that 99% of the original concept was lost in translation – English is too primitive a language. Take Bantu where they
 
have one, two and then "many" – the end of their numbers – and you want to translate into large number systems, you simply can't do it. See the
 
problem?
 
 
Point A was linked by some sort of communication circuit to point B. At point B there would be something to see, but it would be rather dull. It
 
would be a man asleep – doing nothing. Remember the resurrection and the way the stone was moved by the Midwayers? At point C you would
 
see a pencil moving over paper with no visible means of motion. That's where the physical writing took place. Now point D would be where we
 
found the papers. This individual was never seen to write one of these papers – and don't think we weren't wearing gumshoes looking. If he wrote
 
them he was more clever than us – he was never observed to write them.
 
We tried everything we could think of to see how this was being done, but were baffled. The text was entirely written in pencil – all in the
 
handwriting of this individual who remarked that if they ever wanted to draw on his bank account he'd be a dead duck because the bank would
 
pay on their signature.
 
====Contact Personality====
 
Who was this guy? I took an oath not to divulge who he was. That was required of all who know his identity and it was required by the
 
commissioner who sponsored the last of the papers. We think we know why it was required. He would have asked us to maintain secrecy. One of
 
the reasons this chap was picked is that he has a passion for anonymity – a very stable man – the exact opposite of what you think someone
 
associated with this would be like. His head was solidly on his shoulders and his feet solidly on the ground – someone who would be ashamed to
 
be mixed up with something spooky. He doesn't want to be known.
 
====Publication====
 
These papers were read to the forum. At the end of each paper was a note suggesting the next title on which questions should be asked. This is
 
how they led us through the first time. They were read to the forum and they generated more questions and over a period of years this book
 
accumulated. And eventually when we had money we published.
 
 
In 1950 we completed the preparation of our plates. As money came in we forecast inflation, so we took the money we had and spent it in getting
 
Donnelley to prepare the plates. If you went to Chicago, you'd see that the Urantia Foundation was established in 1950 by the anonymous
 
donation of the plates of The Urantia Book. We got nickel coated plates. If you write to Donnelley, they'll tell you they negotiated with Kellogg.
 
The Urantia Foundation owns the copyright. There are five trustees. In about 1954 these five trustees selected thirty-six people who organized
 
the Urantia Brotherhood. The book was published in October of 1955 and has been spreading ever since.
 
 
I was there most of the time. I'm a management man, not the kind of man you would expect to see mixed up in something like this -- and I was
 
very suspicious of all this. I asked myself, "Who is making what out of this? Where's the gold Cadillac in all this?" I checked it out and found
 
that it was going to cost money. I realized there was no commercial end. And, as the book cleared up some personal quarrels I had with religion,
 
I felt it was pretty good merchandise. So I elected to spend my spare time selling this. I don't get paid, but I get a lot of satisfaction. This is a first
 
hand story except for the years from 1924 to 1928. And this is the first time this has ever been recorded.
 
 
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Early Life

William Samuel Sadler, Jr. was born in LaGrange, Illinois, on December 15, 1907, to Drs. William S. And [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Celestia_Kellogg Lena K. Sadler. The first five years of his life were spent in LaGrange. The family then moved to Highland Park. With their growing practice they found commuting difficult and, therefore, moved to Chicago. Their first home in Chicago was on Lincoln Park West, near Francis Parker School, which Bill attended from Kindergarten through high school. He was graduated at the age of fifteen. The following year he enrolled in Northwestern University, where he joined Beta Theta Phi fraternity.

Career

Finding himself out of step with the older students at the University, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps. He took his basic training at Parris Island. He was stationed at Quantico, Virginia as well at San Diego.

He served in Haiti and the second Nicaraguan campaigns. Bill was very proud of his Marine service. On his return home at the end of his Marine service he went to work for the National Bank Examiners and that fall enrolled in the University of Chicago with the intention of taking a premedical course, continuing to work Saturdays and summers for the National Bank Examiners, where he obtained some knowledge of the banking business. These were depression days and times were difficult, but Bill was fortunate to be elected Assistant Cashier of the District National Bank of Chicago, which was organized in about 1933. He remained with the District National Bank for approximately 3 years. In 1935 Bill was married. Finding the salary from a banking position inadequate for his marriage status, Bill obtained a position with Standard Oil Company of Indiana. He was connected with the Comptroller's office and acted as investment custodian for their pension fund. After several years in this position, he became a personnel advisor for a firm of consulting engineers, where he worked for two years prior to establishing his own business, Sadler and Associates, this in 1947. He continued as the head of this firm for the remainder of his life and when he died he was President of Sadler and Associates, Inc. The firm continues in operation.

Religious Life

From early childhood Bill. received his religious training at home. He was a natural-born teacher, and when the Urantia Papers appeared, Bill became one of the leading exponents of the Urantia teachings. With his father, he was the teacher of the first groups organized for the systematic study of the Urantia Book. He was one of the original Trustees and Vice President of the Urantia Foundation and one of the founders and the first President of the Urantia Brotherhood, and was one of its field representatives. He was of invaluable assistance in launching the Urantia movement. There was never a diminution of his interest. In 1960 he organized and became President of the Second Urantia Society of Chicago.