Ever wondered why there is a bible in almost every hotel room? My friends and I were discussing this and one guy said it was to drive out spirits cuz hotels are famous hunting ground for evil spirits. (In his defence, he was high).
Then I decided to ask mr-know-all a.k.a google.com, apparently this tradition is not only common in nigeria.
This is the story of a group of travelling christian business men who made it their life mission to propagate the Gospel of christ.

In 1898, two traveling businessmen, John H.
Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, arrived in
Boscobel, Wisconsin looking for a place to stay the night. Though they came from different places, chance put them both in the Central Hotel where there was only a double room left. Without anywhere else to go, the two strangers shared the room, and as two men in a small room are wont to do, they started talking.
When the temporary roommates discovered they were both Christians they decided to pray together that night. Pleased with their communal prayer, they mused on the merits of an organization for traveling Christian
businessmen. The couple parted ways (to do
their business, I assume), but promised to
reconvene one year later at the local YMCA
where they would welcome all businessmen
looking for “mutual recognition, personal
evangelism, and united service for the Lord.”
Only one other person showed up: William J.
Knights.
At that meeting, it was decided that they called their group GIDEONs after Gideon in the bible who defeated the Midianites with just 300 men.

In 1908, the Bible Project was introduced and it became Gideon’s goal to put a Bible in every
hotel room in America. They considered it “a
gracious act, wholly in keeping with the divine
mission of the Gideon Association.” They started in the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana, and haven’t stopped since.
Today, Gideons International has distributed
over 1.8 billion copies of the Gideon Bible, with 700 million of those occurring in the last 10 years. The organization brags on their website that more than two copies of their Bible are distributed every second. And there’s nothing special about the “Gideon Bible”—it’s just a copy of the King James Bible distributed by Gideon.

The group has Bible distribution down to a
science. Whenever a hotel opens up, one of
Gideon’s 300,000 members from 190 countries
presents the hotel manager with a ceremonial
Bible, and provides enough copies for every
hotel room (along with extras for the staff and some replacement copies). They hand over these Bibles and expect nothing in return. I guess when a shipment of 600 Bibles shows up at your hotel you might as well put one in every room. What else can you do? Donate them? Discard them?

Gideon expects each Bible to last about six years before they need to be replaced, at which point they replace them. And they don’t mind if people steal the Bibles. They figure if someone has the gall to take a Bible, it just means they need the word of God that badly.

good course! Wey our pastors and christians Recievin deposite alert!!>

Thank God For such foresight.
The word must get to the ends of world. Hence, barring any excuse on the last day.

Bless You All!

Nice

Nice one, OPI was surprised to see bibles in two hotels two weeks ago. Now I know why.