Word: colporteur
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...signed by individuals against joining any aggressive war. Church of God. In Jamaica, N. Y. last week arrived a bluff, hearty evangelist named Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson. Bishop and Overseer of the Church of God which claims 500,000 followers, 2,000 churches throughout the U. S. Once a colporteur of tracts in the North Carolina mountains, Bishop Tomlinson says he was driven out by his enemies amid shots and showers of stones. He founded the Church of God in Tennessee, was ousted ten years ago for alleged mismanagement of funds, is still under injunction (which he ignores) against retaining...
...Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament to a traffic policeman. At a cinema performance of Ben Hur at a fair in Mollet, Spain, a colporteur stood by the door crying: "The Holy Gospels! With all the texts that are thrown on the screen in the film!" He sold...
...Colporteur Szoke spends most of his time in the restaurants and cafes of Budapest. Let us hasten to add that he does not go there to be fed, but to feed others with the Word of God." In Turkey, Armenian Colporteur Mihran Balian "tells of a Turk who was heard crying out with a loud voice in the midst of a large crowd: 'May this Society live long! What a philanthropic Society! It is not concerned at all with politics and supplies the people with books at cheap rates...
...colporteur was reading the parable of the Prodigal Son in a Paris cafe much frequented by North African workmen. A young kabyle became greatly excited. 'It is my life you are reading!' he cried. 'I am the prodigal son.' And he rushed out into the night...
...scared, but unintimidated. Get him inside the intrenchment; stamp on him. Examine his papers, - O shame! they are tracts. Swear thus to treat all invaders of the free soil of Cuba. Mysterious stranger says it is n't Cuba, it's Patchoughe, Long Island, and he 's a colporteur, and we are children of wrath. Band (three men and a reporter) advance and corroborate; also arrest us for vagrancy. Loathsome Bastiles. Bailed out by colporteur, who proves to be connected by marriage with Freshman's god-father. Afterwards learn that the blockade-runner only escaped by going to pieces. Crew...
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