“P” is for Pike, John Martin (1840-1932). Clergyman, editor, publisher. A native of Newfoundland, Canada, Pike was an ordained minister in the Methodist Church of Canada. In the mid-1880s, he was invited to preach at Columbia’s Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Pike subsequently moved to the state and spent most of the rest of his life in South Carolina. He pastored congregations in Lynchburg, Sumter, Summerville, and Charleston. In 1890 he joined the Rev. Robert C. Oliver on the staff of The Way of Faith (a weekly periodical) and assisted him with his work at what would become Oliver Gospel Mission in Columbia. In 1893 John Martin Pike became editor of The Way of Faith and through it exercised pivotal influence on the planting of Holiness and Pentecostal strains of Protestantism in South Carolina.
“P” is for Pike, John Martin (1840-1932)
