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Opinion: Austin Currie - peacemaker, parliamentarian and titan of the civil rights movement Colum Eastwood. Cathal Crowe. By the s, the name Gideon had become synonymous with the free Bible distribution. Other religious groups, like the Mormons, began offering hotels their own religious literature to compete in the nightstand drawer.
Some hotels began stocking the texts of multiple religions. So those that miss the bedside Bible can now instead browse a digital version of whichever scripture they prefer. This article originally appeared on Travelandleisure.
About Your Privacy on this Site. Related article: What you need to know about your hotel room kettle Over the past decade, about 15 percent of hotels have stopped providing in-room religious materials. Hill randomly met at a crowded hotel and were forced to share a hotel room. In this hotel room they realized they had a common background of being traveling Christian salesmen and that they shared the same passion for evangelism.
In , they decided the goal of this association would be to unite traveling salesman for evangelism. They realized placing Bibles in hotel rooms would be a great way to increase evangelism and bring peace and comfort to lonely travelers. Unfortunately, the original location the Superior Hotel burned down in December However, there is a commemorative plaque on the site of the original hotel. Whether you can take one of the Bibles with you is sort of a gray area.
Others would say that by taking the Bible you are preventing other travelers from using it while on the road which cuts against the goal of the Gideons. It is estimated that each Bible placed in a hotel room can reach up to 2, people and that they have about a six year lifespan. Typically, Gideons distribute the King James Version of the Bible, so it is not some special version or obscure translation of the Bible.
The only thing that is really different is that there are some special pages at the front of the Bible where you might be able to find specific Bible verses for your times of need and some short messages about salvation. In case you were not clear, hotels do not pay for the Bibles.
According to some reports, as of they had distributed over 2 billion Bibles and it is estimated that they distribute more than two copies of the Bible per second! Both explanations are probably valid but the next time you come across a Bible in your nightstand you might want to open it up just in case. The decision on whether or not to include a Bible in a hotel room is typically made by the owner of the hotel but that is not always the case.
While religious books are typically tucked away inconspicuously in a hotel nightstand, its presence alone offends many. Bibles have been a staple in hotel rooms, guest houses, inns and more shared accommodations since the turn of the 20th century. In , a group of traveling Christian businessmen developed a group called the Gideons , a religious organization that, to this day, donates New Testaments around the world.
One can see how a visitor in a foreign place, perhaps checking into a hotel during a tumultuous time or completely overwhelmed by new surroundings, may turn to the only book available in a hotel room for comfort in the days before Wi-Fi. In , just about every hotel has plenty of entertainment options, from Wi-Fi to on-demand movies and premium cable channels like HBO.
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