BAUMAN, Louis S(ylvester) 1875-1950

PERSONAL: Born November 13, 1875, in Nora Springs, IA; died November 8, 1950, in Washington, DC; son of William J. H. (a minister) and Amelia (Leckington) Bauman; married Mary Melissa Wake-man, 1898 (died, 1909); married Retta Virginia Stover, c. 1912. Education: High school graduate.

CAREER: Ordained minister of Brethren church, 1894; evangelist preacher, 1894-1900; pastor of Brethren churches in Philadelphia, PA, beginning 1900, and Long Beach, CA, c. 1912-47; Grace Brethren Church, Washington, DC, pastor, 1948-50. National Fellowship of Brethren Churches (now Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches), founding member, c. 1937. Ashland College, member of board of trustees in the 1930s; Grace Theological Seminary, founding member, after 1935.

MEMBER: Foreign Missionary Society (charter member; member of board of trustees, 1904).

WRITINGS:

The Faith Once for All Delivered to the Saints, Brethren Missionary Herald (Winona Lake, IN), 1908, reprinted, 1947.

Shirts and Sheets, A. S. Pearce (Long Beach, CA), 1934.

"The Time of Jacob's Trouble"; An Answer to theQuestion of a Little Jewish Girl—"Tell Me, Father, What Makes Folks Hate Us So?," [Long Beach, CA], 1938, new edition, 1939.

Light from Bible Prophecy as Related to the PresentCrisis, introduction by Charles G. Trumbull, Fleming H. Revell (New York, NY), 1940.

Russian Events in the Light of Bible Prophecy, Fleming H. Revell (New York, NY), 1942.

The Tongues Movement, Brethren Missionary Herald (Winona Lake, MN), 1963.

Biblical Prophecy in an Apocalyptic Age: SelectedWritings of Louis S. Bauman, edited by Joel A. Carpenter, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1988.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

online

Christian Hall of Fame,http://www.cantonbaptist.org/ (March 24, 2003), "Louis S. Bauman, 1875-1950."*