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

So whispered a small vestry-man Unto a colporteur.

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

“John Muntz is my proper name, bookseller and labourer in Christ’s service,” answered the colporteur, as he bade the Knight farewell.

From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

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

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

It employs 930 Christian colporteurs abroad, who sold in 1905-1906 over 2,250,000 volumes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

The Society for Religious Publications employed 1300 colporteurs, and effected sales during the year to the amount of 526,000 dollars.

From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird