colporteur
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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
Several months passed, and then one of the brethren, a colporteur, came.
From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by E. E. Byrum
Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
Along these arteries of traffic many tons of tracts and propaganda are hurled annually by train, felucca and colporteur.
From Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury
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
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
They were already quarrelling among themselves as to whether it should be the Waldenstromites or colporteurs from the National Evangelical Union.
From Jerusalem by Velma Swanston Howard
It has employed 569 colporteurs, of whom 135 are students in colleges and seminaries.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
