Gideon Bibles in Hotel Bedrooms
SIXTY thousand Bibles have been placed in the bedrooms of hotels in the United States and Canada by the "Gideons," the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association of America. It is the aim of this organization to scatter the Word of Life broadcast for the spiritual enlightenment of those who, like themselves, have to spend so many of their hours in the "unhomelike atmosphere of hotel bedrooms." As a result of this act of the "Gideons," "a United States senator's thoughts and memories were so stirred from the reading of one of these Bibles in a hotel, as to move him to send a check for $50.00 to aid in the distribution of Bibles under this plan, confessing in an accompanying note that the reading of that Bible in the hotel had led his 'thoughts back into channels where they had not been for many years.'"—Caribbean Watchman.