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

After this he received another New Testament from a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and read it with a pricked conscience for disobeying his father.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

“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

The colporteur was very pale, but he seemed to be cool.

From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris

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

The whole movement originated several months ago, in the efforts of the colporteurs of a certain mission, to ameliorate the condition of sailors and fallen women of the Fourth Ward.

From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

By colporteurs, these works were sold extensively in France.

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