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Frederick Merritt Pyke (1884-1976), American missionary, and his wife, Frances Louise Taft Pyke (1887-?), their colleagues and missionary stations are the subjects of a collection of photographs.

The Pykes were both children of pioneer missionaries to China. His parents were James Howell and Annabel Goodrich Pyke, and her parents were the Reverend and Mrs. Marcus L. Taft.

The Japanese interned the Pykes in a camp at Weihsien, China, for thirty months during World War II.

The Pykes had three children: Louise, Ruth, and James. In 1958, Frederick became a member of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church.

Robert Richford Roberts (1778-1843) was born in Frederick County, Maryland on August 2, 1778. He migrated to Mercer County, Pennsylvania where he lived as a frontiersperson with his wife Elizabeth Oldham of York County, Pennsylvania. Roberts was admitted on trial in the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and ordained by Bishops Asbury and Coke in 1804 and 1806. After several appointments in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, he was elected a bishop in 1816. In 1819 Roberts moved to Indiana where he became known as "the log cabin" bishop. His episcopal journeys took him from Maine to Mississippi and to the Indian missions west of Arkansas. Roberts died in Indiana on March 26, 1843.

J. D. Domer (1841-1902), American ministers, was born in Venago County, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He entered the ministry in 1861 in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association. In 1891, when the division within the Evangelical Association led to the formation of the United Evangelical Church, Domer joined the Ohio Conference of that same splinter group. He was an itinerant minister for 38 years until his death in 1902.

Samuel Romily Hall (1812-1876), a British Methodist preacher, was born in Bristol, England. A memorial in the Wesleyan Methodist Church Conference Minutes for 1876 records Hall, "Having given himself to the Methodist ministry, he studied the records of its rise and progress."

Hall was an author of four books which reflected his interest in asserting that British Methodism was distinct from Anglicans and from Dissenting Congregations in England.

In 1868, Hall was elected president of the British Methodist Conference. In the last four years of his ministry, he was stricken by paralysis which limited his work.