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Show f Travelers Find Bible in Most Hotel Rooms "Room with bath" and Bible, too, though It Isn't advertised. But one should use It, considering the traditional tradi-tional relationship between cleanliness cleanli-ness und Godliness. The Gideons continue to do th, part In equipping hotel rooms. Ih 192S. as the Missionary Review of the World tells us, the Scottish Commercial Travelers' Christian Union placed some 3,000 Bibles, especially es-pecially printed nnd bound. In Scotland, Scot-land, practically finishing their task north of the Cheviot hills. In New Zealand, C.SSS Bibles had been placed In hotel rooms by the end of lt30. Practically nil the hotels In Canada have been supplied. Working for the Gideons In Korea, Captain Swlneheart has placed 1,500 Bibles In Korean hotcl3, together with 300 Japanese Bibles in Japanese Japa-nese hotels In Korea. As these hotels ho-tels are generally without tables, a wooden holder, to attach to the wall, is supplied with each Bible. In Bombay Bom-bay and its neighborhood 13 hotels have been supplied with 327 Bibles, and 1.103 copies In English, Dutch and Chinese have been placed by the Gideons In the guest-rooms of hotels In Java, Borneo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and PenaDg. Literary Digest. |