| Sumario: | A chance meeting in a raucous hotel lobby nearly one hundred years ago led two drummers to make a spiritual mark on hostelries worldwide.. That Gideon Bibles have made their way to 140 countries in nearly sixty languages, have been placed in prisons and colleges, that they reached servicemen in Pearl Harbor in December 1941, that the five hundred millionth copy was handed to President Bush in 1990 would probably not astound the two founders, traveling salesmen who met by chance at the Central Hotel in Boscobel, Wisconsin, on September 14. John H. Nicholson was a traveler in aluminum and an evangelical Christian, and that afternoon he had already converted a young carriage driver named Emery who had taken him to several appointments. Nicholson(John H. Nicholson) had happened upon a lumbermen's convention, and the hotel was almost full. They had a special interest, as the Boscobel Hotel is pictured on the front cover of all of Japan's Gideon Bibles.
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