Word: boscobel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty years ago three drummers knelt in prayer in a bedroom in the Central House in Boscobel, Wis. They were vowed to form an organization for the Lord's work. They could not think of a name for it, though, until Insurance Man Will D. Knights opened his Bible, read from Judges how the Lord had put a sword in the hand of his mighty warrior, Gideon. Paint Salesman Sam Hill and Shoe Salesman John H. Nicholson agreed that "The Gideons" would be their name...
...work-putting Bibles in hotels and institutions. The 40th anniversary "Gideon Roundup" was organized by Gideon Nicholson, spry at 80. Gideon Knights was there too, but feeble at 86. Gideon Hill died three years ago. In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future...
...Andover, Mass., Thomas Walker received a check for $60 from the British Government. Nearly 300 years ago Thomas Walker's ancestors hid Charles II from Oliver Cromwell in an oak at Boscobel, for which their descendants were awarded a ?12 bounty in perpetuity...
...years ago saw the South Fork Dam crumble, galloped a mile down the valley to warn inhabitants of the approaching Johnstown Flood; of leg injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep...
...night in 1898 a shoe salesman and a paint salesman found themselves assigned the same room in a hotel in Boscobel, Wis. Said Shoe Drummer John H. Nicholson: "My custom is to read a portion of God's word every night and give thanks for God's care over me during the day." Replied Paint Drummer Samuel Eugene Hill: "I, too, am a Christian. Let us have our devotions together...