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

In a remote village of Spain a Bible Society’s colporteur, carrying a coloured banner, sold me a copy of Cipriano de Valera’s New Testament for a peseta. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter

When in Constantinople I met a Hebrew Christian colporteur named Solomon, who offered me a New Testament.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

A colporteur has been present with his wares, and succeeds in selling at a small price portions of the Scriptures and tracts.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

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

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

Thence intrepid colporteurs, their lives in their hands, bore the Bible and the psalm-book to city, hamlet, and castle, to feed the rising flame.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

More than 140 colporteurs, or agents, mostly natives, are peddling the Bible for sale in different parts of India.

From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis