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The distribution of Seventh-day Adventist publications helped build the denomination in Canada. Most often, the colporteur, or book-sellers, led the way.

Then, during the latter part of that conference year, Rev. Flickinger served as a colporteur for the American Tract Society, and as a City Missionary in Cincinnati, Ohio.

12 By 1940, he held was one of the student leaders.PUR, February 28, 1940, p. 5 He helped earn his way through college by selling Christian books as a colporteur.

This church became the organizational hub of the rapidly spreading movement.Shulman (1981), pp. 273–274. A. J. Tomlinson, then a colporteur, came in contact with the Camp Creek Holiness Church in 1896.

Colporteur during the 19th century in Brittany. Colportage is the distribution of publications, books, and religious tracts by carriers called "colporteurs" or "colporters". The term does not necessarily refer to religious book peddling.

Niaux (2013). In 1824 and 1827 his first two operas, L'Alcalde de la vega and Le colporteur, were premiered at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris under the auspices of the Opéra- Comique. Le colporteur was also produced in Germany, and even (in a very mangled version, in 1831), in London. In 1825 in Paris he met the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn, who enjoyed a performance of one of Onslow's quartets but was surprised that he was not aware of Beethoven's opera Fidelio.

Tracts and Bibles, publications such as the Baptist Home Mission Monthly, Tidings, Home Mission Echoes, and Hope were essential mission tools. The American Baptist Home Mission Society worked jointly with the American Baptist Publication Society to dispatch colporteur wagons, railroad chapel cars, and gospel cruisers in the waters of Oregon and Washington to carry the printed and spoken word to the West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In 1931, 46 colporteur and chapel car missionaries were under appointment by the American Baptist Home Mission Society.

Stray joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a result of H. C. Hartwell's work. A few months later, Stray sold his business and began church work as a colporteur. On August 22, 1905, their daughter Caroline was born. She later married Frank Crump.

Jansen left the United States on 7 August 1857, while still aged 16. Jansen was a merchant sailor, and colporteur in China's interior. From 1871 Jansen was resident in Shanghai, and was employed by the Imperial Maritime Customs."Sudden Death of Mr. D.C. Jansen", North-China Herald (9 November 1894):26.

Paton was born on 24 May 1824, in a farm cottage at Braehead, Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He was the eldest of the 11 children of James and Janet Paton. Paton was a stocking manufacturer and later a colporteur. James and his wife Janet and their three eldest children, moved c.

William Henry Branson (1887 – 1961) was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator. He began denominational service as a colporteur in 1906, and as an evangelist in 1908. In 1911 he was conference president in South Carolina and then in Tennessee. By 1915 he was president of the former Southeastern Union Conference.

The first set of Sabbath keepers were discovered in the Turks and Caicos Islands on the island of Grand Turk in 1906 by a Jamaican colporteur (religious book salesman) as he sold books. The church's main periodical 'The Review and Herald' of 16 November 1905 noted that "A woman on one of the Turks Islands at the turn of the twentieth century had come to recognize the seventh-day Sabbath through reading her Bible". In 1945 the territory saw the establishment of a permanent presence of the SDA church when Clyde Nebblett, another colporteur, migrated to Grand Turk with his wife and began a small prayer group that met in their home. Later that year the island of Grand Turk was devastated by the 1945 Homestead hurricane.

During middle to late 1920s, Ted Heppenstall worked as a student colporteur in various locations in the British Isles. In 1929, he served on the staff of Stanborough College as Preceptor (Men's Dean) and English teacher. The British Adventist media referred to him as E. A. Heppenstall. He moved to the United States in 1931.

John Long was born to Gilbert and Ann Long on 15 September 1872 in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary Ireland. From the age of seven, he worked digging peat during the summer months and attended school during the winter. Long became a Methodist in 1890 during a revival mission. After his father's death in 1895, Long became a Methodist colporteur.

He did not want to have > anything to do with the Bible. However, the tireless colporteur persisted in > visiting him, and one day after a conversation that went on for several > hours, Antonio burst into tears. He bought a Bible and began to go to the > meetings at a little church called "Peniel." There he found his Savior.

In 1896, he and his wife moved to the Peterborough, Ontario area to be closer to family. He worked as a colporteur there. In 1908, a year before he died, the Morse's moved to a family home in Florida.Morse, G.W. and Morse, Lizzie J. "A Pioneer Gone to Rest" Review and Herald, December 23, 1909, p. 17.

Many students throughout the years have been able to finish school as the result of the literature work. However, the greatest results of this ministry are still to come. "More than one thousand will soon be converted in one day, most of whom will trace their first convictions to the reading of our publications." Colporteur Ministry pg. 151.

When he wrote to General Conference, they told him that at 65 he was too old. They also said that they didn't have the money to send him. Still determined to go, La Rue negotiated his way onto a ship where he could work his way to Hong Kong. He arrived there in 1888 and began working as a colporteur for the next 14 years.

The writings of Ellen G. White have been highly influential in the formation of Seventh-day Adventist eschatology, particularly the final chapters of her book The Great Controversy. The classic interpretation was Uriah Smith's book, known by its abbreviated title as Daniel and the Revelation. It was affirmed by Ellen White,White, statements compiled in Colporteur Ministry, chapter "Chap. 20 – Our Large Message Books", p123.

Moody's sermons published in Sweden were distributed in books, newspapers, and colporteur tracts, and they led to the spread of Sweden's "Moody fever" from 1875 through 1880. He preached his last sermon on November 16, 1899, in Kansas City, Missouri. Becoming ill, he returned home by train to Northfield. During the preceding several months, friends had observed he had added some to his already ample frame.

John Ellison Vassar married Mary Lee and moved to Poughkeepsie. While working at his cousin's brewery, he began attending revival meetings at the nearby Baptist church."Civil War", Vassar Encyclopedia He left the brewery and devoted his time and money to missionary work. In 1850 he became an agent and colporteur of the American Tract Society, and traveled as its representative throughout Illinois and other parts west.

James Leith Bain was born at his parents' house on Inverness Road, Pitlochry within the Parish of Moulin, Perthshire on 21 November 1860 to a John Bain (Colporteur) and a Margaret Leith. His parents had married on 1 November 1855 in Nairn Burgh, Nairnshire. James' siblings, also born in Pitlochry, were a John Jnr. (10 August 1856), Mary (9 October 1858), and Margaret (6 April 1863).

Now known as Moody Publishers, they continue to publish religious materials with proceeds supporting the Moody Bible Institute. The Seventh-day Adventist Church calls their book distributors "literature evangelists", but until about 1980, the term "colporteur" was used to describe SDA literature evangelists. Jehovah's Witnesses who were active in the full-time ministry were called colporteurs until 1931. Today, those participating in the full-time ministry are called "pioneers".

Detail of the façade of Le Havre Cathedral. The Protestant Reformation experienced relative success in Normandy. From 1557, John Venable, library colporteur from Dieppe disseminated in Pays de Caux and Lower Normandy the writings of Martin Luther and John Calvin. The first Protestant church was built in Le Havre in 1600 in the district of Sanvic at 85 rue Romain Rolland. It was destroyed in 1685 on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV.

A Peking fruit seller, c. 1869 Peddler in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a canvasser, chapman, cheapjack, hawker, higler, huckster, monger, colporteur or solicitor, is a traveling vendor of goods. In England, the term was mostly used for travellers hawking goods in the countryside to small towns and villages; they might also be called tinkers or gypsies. In London more specific terms were used, such as costermonger.

The Peniel Mission (Sociedad Peniel Hall) work in South America began as the result of the conversion of an Italian entrepreneur named Antonio Chiriotto (1830–1911), originally from Turin, Italy. After several years in Argentina and Peru, Chiriotto immigrated to Los Angeles, California, where he became wealthy, and was converted to the Christian faith. > After he had been in California for about ten years, a colporteur tried to > sell him a Bible. Antonio denied him repeatedly.

Irvine met John Long, a Methodist colporteur, in March 1897 in Kilrush, S. Ireland. "At this time, Irvine had a big reputation as a Faith Mission evangelist "remarkable for saying, 'Praise the Lord,' no matter what happened". John Long describes Irvine as "In either secular or religious matters, he was a born leader of men; he was a holy man, and practical. In personal dealing, he was preeminently the best conversationalist I ever met, and skilful in soul winning.

The first Sabbath keepers were discovered in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Grand Turk Island in 1906 by a Jamaican colporteur as he sold books. The Review and Herald of November 16, 1905 noted that “A woman on one of the Turks Islands at the turn of the twentieth century had come to recognize the seventh-day Sabbath through reading her Bible.”Don F. Neufeld, ed. Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia M-Z, 2nd edition, (MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1996), 801.

Nyvall was born in Sweden, the son of a colporteur and leader of the Covenant Movement in Sweden. He immigrated to America in 1886 at age 23; he settled in Illinois and became involved in the nascent denomination in the States. Though his educational background was pre-med, he accepted an offer from E. August Skogsbergh (1850-1939) offer to teach at his school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1887 he married Skogsbergh's sister Louise and served a year as pastor to a church in Sioux City, Iowa.

In the 1860's The Church of the Good Shepherd, Salt in modern Jordan had its origins in the work of a local Arab grain merchant and colporteur from Nablus who started bible studies under a tree. At the time Salt, Jordan was a major Ottoman regional city east of the river Jordan in the Levant. In 1871, Christ Church, Nazareth was consecrated by Bishop Samuel Gobat, and the first Arab Anglicans were ordained. In 1881, the Anglo-Prussian Union ceased to function, and it was formally dissolved in 1887.

Since 1906 the work in the islands has had its ups and down, however it was not until 1945 that the territory saw the establishment of a permanent presence of the denomination. In 1945 Clyde Nebblett a colporteur migrated to Grand Turk with his wife and began a small group that met in their home. Later that year the island of Grand Turk was devastated by the 1945 Homestead hurricane. This forced the Nedletts to move to Providenciales in the community of Blue Hills where 26 individuals were baptized through their efforts.

Methodist ministry in Estonia commenced in the first decade of the 20th century. In 1907, George A. Simons, an American of German descent, was named the superintendent of Finland and Russia with a seat in Saint Petersburg by bishop William Burt in Zürich. Estonia became part of Simmons' missionary area because it was part of the Russian Empire. The first missionary in Estonia was Vassili Täht, a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Saint Petersburg. On 9 June 1907 Vassili met his friend Karl Kuum, a brother in the Moravian Church, on the island of Saaremaa.

Ole Oppegard, Adventist nurse and colporteur, 1895 R. H. Habenicht, Founder of Sanatorium of the Plata, 1908 The close proximity of the Sanatorium of the Plata to the School has benefited the development of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in South America. Graduates from the Sanatorium's nursing program have served all of South America. Early Adventists referred to their health activities as Medical Missionary Work. This work began in South America when Ole Oppegard, a nurse trained in Battle Creek Sanatorium, arrived in Argentina as a self-supporting missionary and began preaching the health message with the gospel in 1895.

Velhagen & Klasing's first major success was the popular cookbook of Henriette Davidis from 1844–1875. The company earned 2,762 Thaler in the cookbook's peak sales year in 1858, or the equivalent of Davidis argued fiercely with the company over her compensation, and her royalty payment increased from 50 to 1000 Thaler over its publication history. In the 1870s and 1880s, Velhagen & Klasing sold two-thirds of its Lutheran and patriotic works through Colporteur salesmen, at the time a new method of marketing through door-to-door salesmen. Another area that Velhagen & Klasing emphasized was geography textbooks.

He expanded the Society's printing facilities, revived the colporteur work and in 1920 introduced the requirement for weekly reports of Bible Students' preaching activity."Annual report for 1920", The Watchtower, December 15, 1920, "At the beginning of the fiscal year there were only 225 active colporteurs in the field. The number has now increased to 350, all of whom are devoting their entire time to the service ... In addition to the colporteurs there are reported to this office 8,052 class workers." He expanded and reorganized overseas branch offices in what he regarded as a "cleansing" and "sifting" work.

He married his wife, Alexandrina Bertelli, five years later on February 27, 1966. He has two children, Julio Cesar Bertelli Silva (born April 21, 1969) and Sandra Valquiria Bertelli Silva (born August 16, 1970). Ordained to the ministry February 27, 1977, Silva rose through the denominational structure serving as a colporteur leader, then youth leader of the São Paulo Field, then youth leader of the Brazilian Union and eventually Corporate Secretary for the Brazilian Union. During the General Conference delegation session held in Bushkill, Pensilvannia, in 1979, he was recognized for his service by being elected to the position of worldwide youth director for the denomination.

Alexander Adu Clerk was born in Cape Coast in the Central Region, Gold Coast in 1947 to Charles Andrew Clerk (c. 1891 – 1977), a civil servant who had done administrative stints in the northern Nigerian cities of Kano and Zaria. C. A. Clerk was also a colporteur of the Hansen Road Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Accra. His mother was Dorothy Esi Mensima Clerk, née Holdbrook, of Cape Coast and Ga Mashie. His paternal grandfather, Charles Emmanuel Clerk (died 14 November 1938) worked in the Gold Coast Civil Service as an interpreter and Secretary to the Governor, and earlier, he was a newspaper publisher in Nigeria.

It collaborates with NCU in training nurses. Throughout its history the expansive of the work of the Jamaica Union Conference has been underpinned by the publishing ministry, with its army of faithful 'colporteur' door to door book selling evangelists. At the 1936 Adventist worldwide General Conference session, Elder A.C. Stockhousen was moved to report: "Jamaica is one of the largest conferences of Seventh-day Adventists in the world.... Today there are 5,335 baptized believers...A more loyal and serious band of believers it would be hard to find anywhere." Today, this continues to be true, and there are currently 3 local conference organizations in Jamaica, but now with over 200,000 members.

Claude Cloutier at the Cinémathèque québécoise, 2017 Claude Cloutier is a Quebec film animator and illustrator who has to date made seven short films with the National Film Board of Canada. Cloutier began his animation career with the 1988 short The Persistent Peddler (Le colporteur), which was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. He first became widely known for From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning (Du big bang à mardi matin) in 2000, which was both a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 21st Genie Awards,Liam Lacey, "Maelstrom storms the Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2000.

Scott, Sir Peter (Ed), The World Atlas of Birds, Colporteur Press, Balmain 1982: 200 While the European encounter with the black swan along Australia's west coast in the late 17th and early 18th centuries led to the shattering of an age-old metaphor, their contact on the east coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries merely confirmed the new post-proverbial view, before turning to account for the black swan as just one more curiosity in the South to be utilised in developing the colonies. In Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the sinister and seductive black swan, Odile, is contrasted with the innocent white swan, Odette.

The Baptist Church in Salonta The Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania (; ) is an organization of ethnic Hungarian Baptists in Romania, united for promoting cooperative ministry. In the 1870s Anton Novak, an Ethnic German colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, began to meet and study the Scriptures with a group of Reformed Christians in Transylvania. In 1875, Heinrich Meyer baptized eight of them and formed them into a church in Salonta Mare. This was the first Baptist church in Transylvania. The Baptist Union of Romania was formed in 1920, but Saxons, Hungarians, and Rusyn- Ukrainians maintained associations to promote their own interests.

Walter C. Moffett was born on February 17, 1879 in Townsend, Delaware. He began denominational service in 1897, at eighteen years of age, as a colporteur in what was then the Atlantic Conference, which comprised Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. He pastored in Ohio (1905-1907), Pennsylvania, and New York state. He served as Educational Superintendent for Ohio conference (1911), New Jersey Conference (1914). For 25 years he served as president in a variety of conferences: Virginia (1915-1918), New Jersey (1919-, Maine (1922), Massachusetts which merged into the Southern New England Conference (1923-1928), West Virginia (1933-1934), Chesapeake (1921, 1935-1940, pastored 1941-1946), West Pennsylvania (1947-1950), and the Eastern Canadian Union Conference (1928-1932).

The Mexicans take your books to turn them over to the priests to be burned," said a friend to her; but in several instances she was told that they hid their books, and only read them at night when the priests were not about." She wrote home for help, but was told that a Christian colporteur, speaking the Spanish language could not be found; so, getting assistance for her school, she started out as the agent of the American and Foreign Christian Union, and the work received a new impulse. In 1857, she removed to Matamoras. Religious liberty came very slowly; but while she was watching the struggle, severe domestic troubles came upon her.

The date of the first traveling library is uncertain. Among its forerunners can be noted the itinerant chapman and ballad seller, the religious colporteur, and the camp library of Napoleon I listed in Bourrienne's Mémoires. The traveling library can also be cited as a logical outgrowth of the "circulating schools" of Wales, promoted in 1730 by Griffith Jones, and the later similar extension schools of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland in the Highlands and the Scottish islands. The first really practicable traveling library plan seems to have been started by Samuel Brown in East Lothian, Scotland, in 1817, though it is stated that the principle had been used with some Scottish parish libraries as early as 1810.

Later in ministry Tomlinson interacted directly with Nelson, but he may have begun to be influenced by Nelson in the early 1890s. Tomlinson's next major influence came from the Methodist colporteur J.B. Mitchell. A convert of the Presbyterian revivalist Charles Finney, Mitchell tutored Tomlinson and took him on trips to distribute religious literature (provided by the American Bible Society) to impoverished areas of southern Appalachia beginning in the summer of 1894. The areas they visited included Culberson, North Carolina, (where Tomlinson and Mitchell established a Christian school and orphanage in 1899), and Camp Creek, North Carolina (where Tomlinson first met R.G. Spurling and W.F. Bryant, the founders of the "Holiness Church at Camp Creek" with whom he would unite in 1903).

Mexico also had similar negotiations with France in 1851 and 1853. Those claims totaled 1,759,000 pesos. The French also addressed unfulfillable individual claims on the behalf of French nationals living in Mexico. Such French nationals included a tailor in Mexico City, who had been stabbed in front of his house; a bootmaker who had been robbed and seriously wounded; the relatives' of a Frenchman who was assassinated at Puebla allegedly by the Mexican police; a hotel-keeper who had been robbed twice at Palmar; a farmer who was killed in Durango; a coach-driver who was kidnapped and held for ransom several times; a colporteur who was murdered at Cuernavaca and numerous other instances of robbery, torture or ill-treatment of French subjects in Mexico.