me District Secretary, a
position which he filled till his death, and to which he devoted the
best energies of his life. His peculiar gifts fitted him for some
special services. During the years 1872-4 he accompanied the Jubilee
Singers in a tour through the United States and Great Britain. They
were welcomed by the royal family and by the nobility, and by large
and enthusiastic popular audiences. Their success, in its pecuniary
results, finds a fitting monument in the substantial and commodious
Jubilee Hall, at Nashville, Tenn.; and the untiring industry, the
skill and tact and energy of Mr. Pike as business manager contributed
in a large measure to this gratifying result. Before returning to
America he made a rapid trip through Egypt and Palestine. In 1881 he
assumed the editorship of the _American Missionary_, and brought to
that service a degree of variety and breadth that gave a new impulse
to the usefulness of the magazine. He devoted much thought and
research to the condition of Africa, and became so well acquainted
with it that editors of leading journals in this city and pastors of
churches sometimes sought information from him in regard to it. He
wrote two volumes on the History of the Jubilee Singers, which have
had a very wide circulation.

Dr. Pike was eminently social and was blessed with unusual
conversational powers, and gave to others and won from them to
himself strong personal friendships. As a public speaker he was
earnest, animated and eloquent, and was gladly welcomed in the pulpit
and in the meetings of Associations and Conferences. His leading
characteristic was that of an organizer. He was perpetually devising
plans for active work and was diligent and untiring in his efforts to
carry them out. He was a man of prayer and of faith in God, which
sustained him in his constant labors, in his days of trial and in his
sickness and death. At his own request his mortal remains rest in
Nashua, the scene of his first pastorate, and his long sleep will be
with those whom he loved. By the generosity of Mrs. O. A. Woodbury a
portion of a cemetery lot was given for his burial, on which an
expensive monument is erected, and on one face of which will be
inscribed his name.

* * * * *

Since writing the above we have learned that a special memorial
service was held Sunday evening, February 1st, in the Chapel of Fisk
University. This was in every way appropriate, in consequence