circuit rider

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Ann Tapscott, the great-great-great granddaughter of the Rev. Peter Cartwright, the evangelist and Methodist circuit rider, lamented the loss of small congregations, like New Salem.

From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2020

“The circuit rider in a lot of ways was lost,” Jason Felici said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2019

By the time he was eighteen, he was a circuit rider, an itinerant preacher hitchhiking from church to church.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

The book finds its own proper music when Harrigan writes about Lincoln as a circuit rider.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2016

The circuit rider, with his intense conviction of sin and his equally strong conviction of salvation through repentance, wrought great crowds in camp meetings into ecstasies of religious excitement.

From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen