Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — Bible in Every Hotel Room. [ARTICLE]

Bible in Every Hotel Room.

An organized movement to place A Bible in every guest-room of every hotel in the United States was formulated at the Grand Avenue Methodist church in Kansas City Sunday night at a meeting of the “Gideons,” an organization of Christian traveling men. C. T. Bowers, of Lincoln, Neb., national field secretary of the organization, which includes 3,000 traveling men, said: "We are not asking outside aid. We may be compelled to go slowly and equip one city at a time, but what we have begun we will finish. The time is not far distant when a young man or wopaan, tired and discouraged, instead of going to a hotel room to sit and brood will be able to gain strength and courage from the Bible.”