The traveler's bible.
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 Pear...
| Publicado en: | American Heritage Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 104 - 106 |
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