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

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

A few weeks later on I had occasion to be in the market-place, and I purchased another copy of the same colporteur, which I read with greater caution.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

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

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

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

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

Synodical colporteurs diligently canvassed them among the congregations.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente

I see a troop of schoolmasters; a larger one of newspaper-venders; and a whole army of colporteurs, each with a bag of Bibles on his back!

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 by Various