The Gideons

“The ‘energies directed towards furnishing a Bible for each bedroom of the hotels n the country’ merit the applause of every Christian [ sure to be a crowd-pleasing statement, but read on].  The evangelistic work, which is ‘one of the natural functions of the Gideon Association,’ obviously is unionistic to the core and cannot be looked upon with favor by Christians who recognize unionism as a very effective hindrance to ‘the evangelization of the world in harmony with the plan laid down by Jesus Christ,’ who is ‘the Way, the Truth, and the Life.’”  (p. 232 “Other Societies”).  Theodore Graebner