bearer vs minister

bearer

noun
  • A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc. 

  • Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession. 

  • A waiter in a hotel or restaurant. 

  • A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page. 

  • One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment. 

  • One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. 

  • A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter. 

  • A tree or plant yielding fruit. 

  • A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved. 

minister

noun
  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. 

  • A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church. 

  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service). 

  • In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador. 

verb
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service. 

  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship 

How often have the words bearer and minister occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )