colporteur

A colporteur was reading the parable of the Prodigal Son in a Paris cafe much frequented by North African workmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the colporteur helps Vincent find permanent lodging with a farming family in Wasmes, the community he's serving.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

So whispered a small vestry-man Unto a colporteur.

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

“Gladly; and I shall have some portions in German of the Old Testament, in translating which Dr Luther is hard at work,” said the colporteur.

From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by William Henry Giles Kingston

He then became a colporteur of religious books, when he suffered much from his friends, yet lived so economically that he managed to save sufficient money to enable him to study for the ministry.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some facts: Total number of Bibles, New Testaments and portions of Scripture distributed last year: 11,888,226, of which 7,604.625 copies were sold by the colporteurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

By far, the larger part of this total circulation is distributed by sale to individuals, through colporteurs, pastors, mission workers and others.

From Time Magazine Archive

It holds valuable properties in London, conducts an extensive printing establishment, and maintains a large corps of workers as secretaries, colporteurs, etc., not only in Great Britain but on the Continent, in India and elsewhere.

From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler

By colporteurs, these works were sold extensively in France.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White