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- BIO:Louis S. Bauman 1875-1950
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- Louis Sylvester Bauman, pastor, missionary
- statesman, Bible conference speaker, and author, was born on November
- 13, 1875. The son of an itinerant Brethren minister and evange- list,
- William J.H. Bauman, he yielded to the call of God to the Christian
- ministry in young manhood. Dr. Bauman served in pastorates at
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mexico and Rowan, Indiana; Long Beach,
- California; and Washington, D.C. His pastorate at Long Beach continued
- for 34 years, building a membership of over 1,900 and attendances
- nearing 2,500. During that time, many branch churches were started in
- Southern California, and over 150 young men and women en- tered
- full-time Christian service. His ministry as an evange- list was
- blessed of God. Brethren churches from coast to coast credit his early
- meetings as the beginning of their work. Early in his pastorate in
- Philadelphia, a street car conductor, James Gribble, was saved. Mr.
- Gribble became the first Brethren pioneer missionary to go to the
- Central Afri- can Republic, a ministry that has produced today almost
- 500 Brethren churches and a membership of over 80,000 African
- Christians. Dr. Bauman served on the trustee board and as a mis-
- sionary editor of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church
- from 1904 to 1950. He died on November 8, 1950, and was buried on his
- 75th birthday.
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