circuit rider

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Ann Tapscott, the great-great-great granddaughter of the Rev. Peter Cartwright, the evangelist and Methodist circuit rider, lamented the loss of small congregations, like New Salem.

From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2020

“The circuit rider in a lot of ways was lost,” Jason Felici said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2019

By the time he was eighteen, he was a circuit rider, an itinerant preacher hitchhiking from church to church.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

The book finds its own proper music when Harrigan writes about Lincoln as a circuit rider.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2016

And I have sung myself, many a time, like a circuit rider with a crowded mourner's bench.

From Dwellers in the Hills by Post, Melville Davisson