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Re: Why is there a Bible in every hotel room?

Mar 14, 2009 05:35 PM
by c.leest


We have in every hotel room ( Alliances) Light on the path from Mable Collins and for he people very noisy we have VOICE of SILENCE from HPB.
That will be more than enough for new theosophists.
Christina





--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand" <AnandGholap@...> wrote:
>
> I have some knowledge of important principles of different religions, I studied different spiritual traditions. I associated with leaders and members of these spiritual traditions. I read many books on spiritual traditions and religions. I have Master's degree in management plus engineering qualification and I have many different skill where my talent was proven. After doing this I can say that Bible is among the best books. And I prefer to be in the company of Christians rather than any other group. So this fact shows that Christianity has inherent great qualities. Christianity has not spread just by some cheap trick. I think it is great and because of it's merit it has become what we see now. 
> You can notice that Blavatskians don't have brotherhood among themselves, let alone with people of other philosophical ideas. I felt that students of Blavatsky are actually degenerated inside.  
> Best
> Anand Gholap
> 
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell" <danielhcaldwell@> wrote:
> >
> > Why is there a Bible in every hotel room?
> > 
> > Dear Straight Dope: 
> > 
> > Why is there a Bible in every hotel room? 
> > 
> > ? barnes
> > 
> > Many would suspect the Gideon Society has something to do with it. 
> > 
> > The Gideons (www.gideons.org), formed in 1899 in Janesville, Wisconsin, are the oldest Christian business and professional men's association in the United States with 130,000 members located in more than 170 countries. 
> > 
> > In the early days, most of the Gideons were traveling salesmen who wanted to be effecitve Christian witnesses while on the road. They decided to place a Bible at the reception desk in each hotel they frequented so patrons could borrow it. The Bible also served as a silent witness in these hotels after the Gideons had checked out. Today, the Gideons place more than 45,000,000 bibles annually in prisons, hospitals, military bases and, of course, hotel rooms. 
> > 
> > But if you want to know who started the phenomenon of placing Bibles in hotel rooms, the credit goes to the International Bible Society (www.gospelcom.net/ibs/). 
> > 
> > Read more of this article at:
> > 
> > http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1477/why-is-there-a-bible-in-every-hotel-room
> >
>





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