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Sinai and Zion, or a Pilgrimage Through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise (Classic Reprint)
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Benjamin Bausman was an American clergyman of the German Reformed Church.
Background
Benjamin Bausman was born on January 28, 1824, the son of John and Elizabeth (Peters) Bausman, was born on his father's farm near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the youngest of nine children. His ancestry was German, of the Lower Palatinate. What is probably the oldest house now standing in Lancaster bears the inscription, "William Bowsman and Elisabeth Built this House, 1762. " Life on the farm was serious. The hard work inured the boy to that habit of tireless industry which was so marked a characteristic of his versatile career. He was six feet in height, lean and lank, of the Lincoln type, with a long, spare countenance and sad brown eyes.
Education
Benjamin Bausman was graduated from Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1851, and took one year of professional study in the Theological Seminary at the same place, under the distinguished professors, John W. Nevin and Philip Schaff.
Career
Benjamin was ordained a minister of the German Reformed Church in 1853 and immediately began the practise of his profession. His most abundant pastoral work was done in Reading, Pennsylvania (1863 - 1909), where it was virtually concentrated in one congregation, that of St. Paul's, of which he was the founder. He greatly extended the power and influence of his denomination by establishing, at a dozen strategic missionary points in the city, Sunday schools which afterward developed into flourishing churches. Gifted with a deep and understanding sympathy with the common people, he exerted a profound spiritual influence upon the entire community. Bethany Orphans' Home is the most significant memorial of his power of achievement in the field of organized philanthropic endeavor. In the wider sphere of ecclesiastical government he played a large part. He was at one time or another a member of every executive board of the church.
Bausman was editor of the Guardian (1867 - 81), a religious and literary magazine for young people. He founded and edited Der Reformirte Hausfreund (1866 - 1903), a bi-weekly paper which, as a moulding force in the religious and social life of the Pennsylvania Germans, was regarded as the most unique of his many undertakings. Appointed delegate to the Evangelical Church Diet at Lubeck, Germany, he seized the opportunity to spend a year of study and leisurely travel in Europe and the Holy Land (1856 - 57). His observations and impressions are recorded in two books: Sinai and Zion (1861), which ran through eleven editions; and Wayside Gleanings in Europe (1875). He also edited and published Harbaugh's Harfe (1902), a small volume of poems in Pennsylvania-German by Henry Harbaugh, the "poet-preacher" of the Reformed Church - a contribution of distinct value to the study of this peculiar and philologically interesting type of local vernacular.
Benjamin Bausman died at the age of 85 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Achievements
Benjamin Bausman has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.
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Religion
In his theology Benjamin Bausman was conservative. He accepted the tenets of the Mercersburg school, but no controversial word seems to have come from his lips or pen to feed the flame of theological discontent. "Let us put such theology as we have into harness - get it to work in acts of beneficence, in extending Christ's kingdom, " he wrote to a friend.
Membership
Benjamin Bausman was a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall (1864-1870); the Board of Visitors of the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg (1860-1869); the Board of Foreign Missions (1878-1893); the Sunday School Board of General Synod (1863-1872). Bausman was a founding member and the first president of the Law and Order Society.
Connections
Late in life, April 6, 1875, Benjamin Bausman was married to Amelia B. Bingaman of Reading, Pennsylvania. They had no children.
