Why do they have bibles in every hotel?

Question

Well...why?

Thanks for the info. And umm yea..to the stupid people..I wasn't complaining. >.> Just curious.

Answer 1

Open the night stand drawer in almost any hotel room in the world and you will find a Bible placed there by the Gideon’s International. The oldest Christian business and professional men’s association in the United States, the Gideons have been around for more than 100 years, and have been placing Bibles in hotel rooms for almost that long.

The Association began in a hotel room on September 14, 1898, in Boscobel, Wisconsin. The manager of the Central Hotel there asked traveling salesmen John H. Nicholson of Janesville, Wis., and Samuel E. Hill of Beloit, Wis., to share a room in a crowded hotel, which was hosting a lumbermen’s convention. In Room 19, above the saloon, the men discovered that they were both Christians. They prayed and read the Bible together before settling down for the night. They talked about starting a Christian traveling men’s association but parted ways the next morning without any definite plans. A chance meeting the following May rekindled the idea, and on July 1, 1899, the two salesmen, joined by a third, William J. Knights, met in Janesville and founded the Gideons. The name comes from the Old Testament book of Judges, and refers to a man who was willing to do whatever God asked of him. Today, the Boscobel Hotel, where the two founders met, is listed on the National Historical Register, and Room 19, where the idea of the Gideons was conceived, is marked with a special plaque.



The Gideons primary purpose has always been personal evangelization conducted by Christian business and professional men. As early as 1900, the organization considered putting Bibles at the front desk of the hotels its members stayed in, but it was not until 1908 that the association voted to place Bibles in all hotel rooms. Within 20 years of the first placement of a Gideon Bible in a hotel room, the association distributed one million Bibles. Because the Gideons so quickly became associated with hotel room Bibles, the association has, at times, had to remind its members that the Bibles are but a means to an end, not an end in themselves. The sole purpose of the group is to win men, women, boys and girls to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through personal witnessing and the distribution of Bibles and New Testaments.

http://ky.essortment.com/gideonbible_rcwz.htm

Answer 2

If one would take the time to listen or read some of the factual stories from people who have used these Bibles, it would make us think again. The Bibles have been used by people who were in need of some kind of help. A loved one who was very ill, or had passed on; someone who was contemplating suicide; someone whose life was "on the rocks" for whatever reason; someone who just needed cheering up. At that time, at that place there was a Bible and they read it and their lives were changed. No, not all people who read it will have the same results. But why take away the opportunity by not having the Bible there.
I've heard some of these stories people have told because of the Bible in their hotel/motel room. They were sincere and honest. It made a change in their lives.

Answer 3

Gideons International is an evangelical Christian organization dedicated to distributing copies of the Bible (in either the King James Version or the New King James Version in the United States, but other translations in over 80 languages in more than 180 countries of the world) to those who might not otherwise encounter it, most famously in hotel rooms. The organization was founded in 1899 in Boscobel, Wisconsin as one of the first parachurch organizations dedicated to Christian evangelism. It began distributing free Bibles, the work it is chiefly remembered for, in 1908, when the first Bibles were placed in the rooms of the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Michigan.

Answer 4

I've worked in upper management of a hotel for many years and Gideon's places Bibles in rooms. It's not something that a hotel 'has' to have, it's something that Gideon's does for their own cause. They do not charge the hotel for them, and they also place them in some hospitals as well. It's almost the same thing as the phone company putting phone books in hotel rooms or delivering them to your house.

Answer 5

Because most people want to read something good before they fall asleep and there is nothing better to read besides a bible, it has all the answers for our life...

Answer 6

Blame Rocky Raccoon. It was his fault for having a Gideon's bible in every room.

Answer 7

Coz some people like to read before sleep .. so instead of asking at desk .. they put one in every room

Answer 8

As a courtesy to people who like to worship.

Answer 9

Brain washing.

Answer 10

to make you think about what you are doing there