The Gideons

Bernard Levin, one of England's leading newspaper columnists, commented in the London Daily Mail on November 8, 1965, that "The only thing you always seem to find in an hotel room of any quality, wherever you are, is the Gideon Bible." The columnist added that the Gideon practice of placing Bibles is one "which only does good, and which has never hurt anybody in the doing of it." The object of the Gideons in performing this task of Scripture distribution is stated simply as "that of winning men...