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saddlebag preacher
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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in colonial times, an itinerant Methodist preacher who carried his requirements in his saddlebags; a circuit rider.
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1833
Thomas Radcliff properly paid tribute to the work of the Methodist saddle-bag preachers. Had he been in the country long when he wrote, he almost certainly would have referred also to the Methodist camp meetings, which impressed all who observed them for the first time.
1958
Called to the ministry, [Egerton] Ryerson was [a] saddle-bag preacher. . . .
1967
Mr. Bates . . . was a saddle-bag preacher during the early years of the 19th century.