18 Facts About Louis Bauman

Louis Sylvester Bauman was a Brethren minister, writer, and Bible conference speaker, holding influential leadership in the Brethren Church and the "Grace Brethren" movement which evenly divided the denomination in 1939.

Louis Bauman served in several pastorates, in particular the First Brethren Church of Long Beach, California where he was pastor for thirty-four years.

Louis Bauman's father was a German Baptist Brethren elder, and Bauman joined the Pony Creek Brethren congregation through a revival held by his father in February 1889.

Louis Bauman came from humble beginnings, with both parents at times employed to meet the needs of their four children.

Louis Bauman received his high school education in Lawrence, Kansas and obtained no education higher except for an honorary degree from Ashland College.

Louis Bauman married a teacher named Mary M Wageman on April 28,1898; she spoke in the pulpit on occasion and wrote for The Brethren Evangelist.

Louis Bauman gave his first sermon at age seventeen on July 2,1893 at the Pony Creek Brethren Church.

In 1900 Louis Bauman began a pastorate at the First Brethren Church of Philadelphia, a place where his interest in foreign missions and eschatology would bloom.

Louis Bauman became a charter member of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church in 1900, in 1904 became a member of its board of trustees, and in 1906 became the board's secretary.

Bowman and Louis Bauman remained in close contact throughout their lifetimes, although Bowman's theological views were more traditionally Brethren, and remained with the Ashland Brethren group in the 1939 division.

Louis Bauman fulfilled several evangelistic campaign commitments that winter and returned as pastor on March 2,1913 as a church building was being built, which was dedicated on July 20 of that year.

Louis Bauman was instrumental in developing young Brethren Church leaders within his theological perspective.

Louis Bauman wrote over ten books, contributed regularly to magazines in both the fundamentalist and Brethren perspectives, and spoke at numerous churches and conferences.

Louis Bauman's method have since been repeated by authors Hal Lindsey of The Late Great Planet Earth fame and Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series.

Louis Bauman wrote countless letters, mostly to missionaries encouraging their work and to fellow pastors concerning both personal regards and issues within the Brethren Church.

Louis Bauman was buried on what would have been his 75th birthday in the Germantown Cemetery, the Brethren "Mother Congregation" church cemetery located in Germantown, Pennsylvania Many prominent Brethren, including founder Alexander Mack, are buried at this cemetery.

Louis Bauman held strongly to beliefs of other early twentieth century fundamentalist, being deeply against classic liberalism and consumed with end times prophecy.

Louis Bauman believed that Benito Mussolini was the anti-Christ, and was a strong Zionist.