[Milhous]

Unfortunately, the last 50 to 60 years of liberalism has stripped almost all of the best part of those Christian roots out of the national discourse and the cultural life of the country.

Fulton Oursler began writing the The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1935 and concurs with your dating.

It was Rabbi Solomon B Freehof, of a great Jewish temple in Pittsburgh, who said to me at dinner one evening that the unspoken scandal of our times was the hidden fact that Bible-reading had been largely given up in America.

[JewishRighter]

“It was Rabbi Solomon B Freehof, of a great Jewish temple in Pittsburgh, who said to me at dinner one evening that the unspoken scandal of our times was the hidden fact that Bible-reading had been largely given up in America.”

And now, here we are with the recent reports that Gideon’s will no longer be featured in hotel rooms. A true sign of the times that relates back to your very pertinent quote.