The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-03
Bible Popular in Hotels
COPIES OF SCRIPTURES IN DEMAND Mt BIG FIOSTELHlES. AND
EACH ROOM Is FURNIsIlED WITH ONE.

of those who have turned to it with
help II profit.
This book has bccn Il comfort to a
worried soul. February. 1907
And I" another. May. same year
~ subscribe myself a better man for
having read this volume"
every lodging house in town has
a. little metal rack fastened upon its
wall which holds IL hiblc-u we'll
thumhrd. Soilcd book. it is. too. II
would DC reasona bic to wonder if these
books were not often tilchcd and sold
for a few cents by men who arc apt
to be more or less low down i'm the
moral scale. Inquiry shows that not
ono has he"n taken i'm years. They dis
appear oftener from the broadway no.
tells. in many cases having been packed
up inadvertently with the goods and
rhattrls of the departing guest. and
these generally are returned hy mail
from some distant city. often With an
ap"loEN and Il word of appreciation. Ii
they are not returned the society is
quit" as we'll pleased. zone more hi
BILE in circulation" it chccrfully says
and sends w another to the hotel tina
has suffered the loss.
The Gideons," the Christian Com
mercial Travels association of Amcri-
ca, has undertaken to place q: copy of
tn" scriptures in each guest room of
every hotel in America, outside of
New York city. The hotel proprietors
are glad. apparently to admit to their
rooms this Virtual library of sixty-six
volumes of choice literature, and in
many cases actually purchase the sup
ply for their guest rooms. Something
like 10000 Gideon Bibles have been
placed and arranged for and the Gid
cons arc hoping t" distribute at least
100, 900 per year i'll the future.
story is old OF a commercial trav-
cler stopping at a western hotel.
Come to my room tonight" said he
t" another travelling man, ''and I'll
give YOU a sarnpl" of some choice old
bourbon I've got
"All right" said tho other. I'm
Your man. After writing out his mr.
drrs he discovered a strange and UNI
familiar volume on his dressing table.
opened it. became absorbed in its pc
rnsal and forgot his appointment Will,
tn" bourbon. lie haStened over to the
other mans room and to his aston
ishment found him burning the land
lldNs gas in a prntracted reading of
the bible he had found in his room. 4
discussion of tho book. which neither
of them had seen for u decade or two.
followed and the choice old bourbon
remained untouched.
"Tbe bible is the. best seller among
the books on the market today" said
an officer "f the bible society. 1.-The
best selling novel of today rarely will
reach a circulation of 10000 copies a
year. yet the bible is having a cir
rulation of 10000 copies every day, so
that even from Il business standpoint
alone h bible is a successful book,
IT is circulated in thirty-seven Ian.
gnages in the city Of New York alone,
which cannot be- said of any other
book. and throughout tho world the hi
bic is printed in more than 500 Ian
guases. No other boo published goes
forth in so many varieties OF size and
binding"
The Raines law hotels arf to be sun.
plies with bibles as soon AS none,
can bc obtained to print and bind the
books.