Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — BIBLES IN EVERT INDIANA HOTEL [ARTICLE]

BIBLES IN EVERT INDIANA HOTEL

Gideons Patting the Good Book In AH Rooms. DRUMMERS MISSIONARIES Commercial Salesmen Have an Or ganlzation Which la Bent Upon the Spreading of Christianity—These Times Are Thought to Be Advantageous For the Work Because Whisky Is Being Eliminated From Caravansaries of the Btate. Indianapolis, July 2. —The Indiana Gideons, the state dlvislon-of the commercial travelers’ Christian organization, has started out to put a Bible In every bedroom In every commercial hotel in Indiana. They have just put Bibles In the 200 rooms In the Denison hotel, and expect to get copies In the rooms of all of the other Indianapolis hotels within a month or so. The work was begun several weeks ago and already the Bibles are on the tables or dressers of every room that a man “making” Fort Wayne, Bluffton, Muncie, Connersville, Bedford, Washington, Petersburg, Evansville and Terre Haute will as his home for a night. The work is carried on entirely by “free will offerings,” and already S4OO has been subscribed to this fund. More, however, Is needed and the subscription lists are open to everybody, whether members or not. The work is thought to be especially timely now, when whisky is being taken out of the hotels. The work is directly under the charge of President J. T. Vansant of Indianapolis, first vice president H. A. Bear of Terre Haute, second vice president F. F. Freligh of Anderson, third vice president W. H. Gore of Plymouth, chaplain F. W. Kelsey of Fort Wayne, and secretary-treasurer O. A. Harlow.