circuit rider

The good bishop was then a circuit rider on Loudoun Circuit, and Rover carried him on her back around the circuit.

These notions of young Felix Kendrick were confirmed and enlarged by his marriage to the daughter of a Methodist circuit-rider.

I know I sat up ever so stiff and tried to look just as if I had been a circuit rider for forty years or so.

The circuit-rider, whether Methodist or Baptist, found here a field ripe for his harvest.

William Bayard Hale once accurately described him as "essentially a preacher, a high-class exhorter, a glorified circuit rider."