1. COLPORTEURS “AGLOW WITH THE SPIRIT”

2. Newer colporteurs paired up with more experienced ones.

3. What helped isolated colporteurs to remain happy?

4. These courageous colporteurs also had to overcome isolation.

5. Clergymen scorned the colporteurs, calling them mere book peddlers.

6. A good sense of humor greatly helped these zealous colporteurs!

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8. Colporteur m (plural Colporteurs, feminine colporteuse) peddler, hawker; Descendants

9. What experiences were enjoyed by colporteurs, most of whom were unmarried?

10. Many colporteurs were arrested, sent to prison or the galleys, banished, or martyred.

11. When preaching in apartment buildings, colporteurs were often chased away by caretakers.

12. When I was young, we often got visits from Colporteurs - mostly they wanted to sell

13. Jehovah's Witnesses who were active in the full-time ministry were called colporteurs until 1931.

14. Japanese colporteurs in those days were not reimbursed for their expenses but received half of the money from literature placements for living costs.

15. Other colporteurs traveled abroad and were the first to take the message to such lands as Finland, Barbados, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Burma (now Myanmar).

16. ‘The prefect's efforts in this affair were focused on the persecution of Colporteurs, key figures in the marketing and distribution of antigovernment pamphlets and newspapers.’

17. The guests received cards on which they could write their names and addresses if they wanted more information, and two colporteurs remained in town for a while to care for those interested persons.”

18. Compared to 150 active colporteurs (pioneers) in the spring of 1919, last year saw an average of over 391,000 pioneer publishers active each month —the highest number in the history of Jehovah’s modern-day Witnesses!