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
After her mother left them, Dorothy, the aristocrat, talked with John, the newly-ordained circuit rider preacher about their marriage.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
