1913
Long Beach
Bauman during his first year at Long Beach.
Long Beach, California
Louis Bauman with colleagues (left to right) Percy Yett, Miles Taber, Alan Pearce, Bauman, Herbert Tay, Homer Kent, Sr., and Alva J. McClain.
Louis Bauman. A portrait was taken in the 1940s.
Long Beach, California
Louis Bauman with colleagues (left to right) Percy Yett, Miles Taber, Alan Pearce, Bauman, Herbert Tay, Homer Kent, Sr., and Alva J. McClain.
Louis Bauman. A portrait was taken in the 1940s.
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1908
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1938
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1940
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1942
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1963
Louis Bauman was born on November 13, 1875, in Nora Springs, Iowa, the United States, to the family of William J.H. Bauman and Amelia (née Leckington) Bauman. His father was a German Baptist Brethren. Louis had three sisters and the family lived with barely enough money. In 1878, when Louis was three, they moved to Morrill, Kansas.
Living in Kansas, Louis received only a high school education. When he was 14, his father organized a revival in consequence of which the young Bauman joined the Pony Creek Brethren congregation.
Louis preached his first sermon at the age of seventeen on July 2, 1893. He obtained no education higher except for an honorary degree from Ashland College.
In 1894 Louis Bauman became an ordained minister of the Brethren church and served in a few pastorates: from 1895-97 he was pastor of the Auburn and Cornell, Illinois congregations, and then from 1897 to 1900, he served at Roann and Mexico, Indiana congregations.
In 1900 Bauman became a pastor at the First Brethren Church of Philadelphia. That was the period when he became interested in foreign missions. At the end of 1912, Bauman fulfilled several evangelistic campaign commitments. Individuals were encouraged there to become members of a Brethren Church and a lot of them converted to Christianity.
More than thirty years, from 1913 to 1947, Bauman was pastor of "Fifth and Cherry" First Brethren Church of Long Beach, California. The congregation quickly became a hub for missionary activity and gave birth to the "Grace Brethren" movement.
In this time Bauman also became a writer. Aside from working on books, he contributed regularly to magazines in both the fundamentalist and Brethren perspectives, participated as a speaker at a number of conferences, wrote encouraging letters to missionaries and fellow pastors.
After serving at Long Beach, Bauman went on to be the pastor at the First Brethren Church of Washington, D.C. until his death in 1950.
Bauman is known as a significant contributor to the development of Christianity in the United States. Thanks to his passion for missions he led a number of people to the Lord. Bauman helped create the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church, initiated Grace Theological Seminary and up until his death remained an influential figure in the development of the Grace Brethren movement.
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1938Louis Bauman was a proponent of typical Brethren views concerning baptism, Christian pacifism, and communion. At the same time, he held strongly to fundamentalism being against classic liberalism.
This unique mixture is reflected in The Faith Once for All Delivered unto the Saints. The convictions of the author are described in four sections: the first (Basic Doctrine) and last (Prophetic Doctrine) being very fundamentalist in nature and the middle two (The Great Commission and Practical Doctrine) distinctively Brethren.
Bauman's fundamentalist perspectives created tension and strong disagreement among the Bauman's group and the followers of traditional Brethren approach. Louis Bauman advocated strongly-worded statements of faith, disregarded the Sermon on the Mount as a law for an earlier age, was largely Calvinist.
Regarding missions, and premillennial dispensationalism, Bauman held to evangelical convictions.
Under the impact of a well-known Brethren premillennialist Isaac D. Bowman and after the death of his son Bauman deepened in the idea of eschatology.
During the Second World War Bauman was one of the key figures who believed that the persecution of the Jews in Germany was God’s plan that would force them to return to Palestine. At the same time, he blamed the ‘apostate’ Jews for bringing about anti-Semitism. He considered anti-Semitism as anti-Christ at its core.
Quotations: "We hold in common with our Brethren of The Grace Seminary Group that The Sermon on the Mount, coming from the lips of the incarnate God, is the highest, holiest, purest, most perfect law that ever has fallen, or ever will fall, upon ears of men. It is the law of the Kingdom of Heaven... The Gospel of salvation calls for blood atonement; for a belief in the deity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; and, for faith in the resurrection of Christ from the dead - not one word of which doctrines are found in the Sermon on The Mount."
Louis Bauman was always very instrumental. He was especially efficient at growing up young Brethren Church leaders. Besides, he had a knack for encouraging people around him. In a Philadelphia streetcar, Bauman led James Gribble to Christianity, who along with his wife Dr. Florence Gribble became pioneer missionaries to the African French colony of Ubangi-Shari which in 1960 became the Central African Republic.
Quotes from others about the person
Long Beach Brethren Church assistant pastor Alan S. Pearce: “When [Bauman's] firstborn son, Glenn, was taken to be with the Lord, at the age of 6, doubts arose in the mind of Louis Bauman. Why should his boy be taken, while others who got their food from garbage cans in the alleys remain? Why should his boy be taken from him? Determined to get an answer, he was driven, as never before, to the unchangeable "word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." Here he found not only consolation and assurance, but became fascinated with the book of Daniel, he read and reread the prophecies contained in this portion of the Scriptures, and comparing them with other Scriptures, he was convinced that only a God who knew the end from the beginning could be the author of the Bible.”
On April 28, 1898, Louis Bauman married Mary Melissa Wakeman. They had three children: Glenn W., Iva Muriel, and Paul R. Glenn. Their oldest son Glenn died at the age of six approximately in 1907. A few years later, in 1909, Bauman's wife deceased as well.
In 1911, being at an evangelistic campaign in Sunnyside, Washington, Bauman met Reta Virginia Stover. They married on April 8, 1912.
