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Christians, they lamented that no Bible was handy. They organized the society of Gideons, which aims to place a Bible in every hotel room in the world, and has distributed nearly a million copies.
†Not to be confused with the Gideons, Christian Travelers Association of America, who place Bibles in hotel rooms, whose organization was founded in 1899 by John H. Nicholson and S. E. Hill, traveling salesman.
20) The Gideons. (They have been doing it since 1909. They are members of the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association.)
As Jesus of Nazareth called fishermen to be "fishers of men," so an organization today calls upon salesmen to be sellers of the gospel. At Madison, Wis., met the Gideons,* otherwise known as the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association of America, to celebrate 25 years of service. Speaking of its...