BIO:Louis S. Bauman 1875-1950 

   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.

