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THE

INNER LIFE

EEV. FREDERICK A. RAUCH, D.P.,

FIRST PRESIDENT OF MARSHALL COLLEGE; AND AUTHOR OF " PSYCHOLOGY, OR A TIEW OF THE HUMAN SOUL."

EDITED BY

EEV. E. V. GERHAET,

PRESIDENT OF FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE, LANCASTER, PA.

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Preface

Rev. Frederick Augustus Rauch, born in Kirchbracht, Hesse Darmstadt, July 27th, 1806, was a graduate of the University of Marburg ; subsequently he prosecuted the study of Philosophy and Theology in Giessen and Heidelberg, and was then appointed Professor of Philosophy successively in these two celebrated Universities. Becoming obnoxious to Government by the expression of rather liberal political sentiments, he emigrated to America in 1831, and spent nearly a year in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he was elected Professor of the German Language in Lafayette College. In the fall of 1832, he was elected Principal of a Classical School, located at York, Pa., and filled the office for three years with superior ability and great success. In 1835, the School was removed to Mercersburg, and converted into a college by a charter from the Legislature of the State, under the name and title of Marshall College. Dr. Rauch was chosen President. In this capacity he labored with extraordinary self-denial, diligence, and

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zeal until March, 1841, a period of five years, when it pleased an all-wise Providence to call him to his reward. He died in the thirty-fifth year of his age, just when his intellectual vigor had fully matured, and he was turning his profound scholarship and extensive erudition to greatest account for the kingdom of Christ. From the time that Dr. Rauch arrived in America, he had devoted himself with great assiduity to the study of the language of his adopted country, and soon acquired a thorough knowledge of its laws and idioms ; and, if we except pronunciation, he may be said to have mastered nearly all its peculiarities. Hence he began to use the English language in the class-room as soon as he took charge of the School at York. But when he became President of Marshall College, he felt that his duty to the Institution demanded something more. He opened a regular Sunday Service in the College Chapel for the particular benefit of the students, and took his turn with his colleagues in the public preaching of the Gospel. As these discourses were elaborated generally with special care, and have frequently been solicited for the press by those who are cognizant of their intrinsic value, a number of them were placed in the hands of the Editor for revision and publication about a year ago by a relative of the Author ; and the present volume is the result.

To the surviving pupils of Rauch, to the later students of the College over which he presided, as well as to the literary and religious community in general who

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have learned to venerate his name through his profound and popular work on Psychology, we doubt not this volume will be an acceptable offering. It exhibits his spirit and character as a Christian, the nature of his labors as a minister of the Gospel, and his method of thinking in its direct application to the Christian religion. Though not popular in the prevailing sense of the word, he was nevertheless as faithful, instructive and efficient in the pulpit as he was thorough, interesting and successful in the lecture-room. A clear conception of the Divine personality of Jesus Christ in His vital relation to the doctrines and precepts of Christianity, gave a distinctive tone to all his discourses. In some, philosophical discussion is predominant, and for this reason such may properly be called philosophico-theological dissertations. In others, clear thought and tender feeling are beautifully blended. But, though the determining influence of his philosophical thinking upon the order of discussion and upon his views of Divine truth, is always seen and felt, yet the recognition of Jesus Christ as the true God, as the only way of salvation, and of the Sacred Scriptures as alone possessing normal authority for faith and practice, reigns supreme in all, and gives them an eminently Christian and practical character, as distinguished both from vapid sentimentalism on the one hand, and rationalistic speculation on the other. For he tested the truth of all his views in theology and philosophy, by the positive teachings of Christ and His Apostles.

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The volume acquires interest also from the fact that Dr. Kauch was properly the founder of Marshall College. Under the influence of his powerful mind, sustained by many friends of classical education in the German Reformed Church, the Institution was brought into successful operation. By his energy, scholarship, and self-sacrificing devotion, aided by the efficient labors of Professor Samuel "W. Budd, its first reputation for literary and scientific character was acquired. More than this, however. The first impulse to the mode of thinking which has distinguished this Institution through its whole history from many similar Institutions, it received from the system of Philosophy which Dr. Eauch inculcated. He aimed at reproducing the truth of German philosophy under an English form in the light of supernatural revelation. Thus he infused an Anglo-German life into the College, which, though modified and perfected by his successors, it has nevertheless retained to the present time. The volume now offered to the public, nearly sixteen years after the Author's death, illustrates the fact that the first President of Marshall College was a decided and humble Christian no less than a philosopher ; that his philosophy was neither rationalism nor pantheism, neither sensationalism nor transcendentalism in any false sense, but really Christian ; and that the impulse and peculiar character, which the Institution received from him in the beginning, was not hostile or prejudicial, as some have alleged, to sound Christian ideas, but subservient

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and favorable to the progress of orthodox scientific theology and true practical religion.

As these Discourses were not prepared for publication by the Author, it was necessary to subject them to a careful revision. This the Editor has endeavored to do. A pupil of Dr. Eauch for nearly eight years, and having lived in intimate friendship with him, especially during the latter part of his life, the Editor flatters himself that he possesses some qualifications for the delicate and responsible task. He laid down two principles of revision, which have been rigidly applied from beginning to end. First, to limit the revision strictly to the work of editing the Discourses — to make such changes, but such only, touching the use of particles and phrases, as the Editor believes the Author himself would have made were he now revising the work for the press. Secondly, to preserve every phase of thought, and retain all the peculiarities of the Author's style, with scrupulous fidelity. "No liberty whatever has been taken with the language in these respects. Verbal modifications have been made only in order to remove traces of the German idiom, and convey clearly the evident meaning of the Author throughout in a purely English style.

In making a selection for the present volume, the Editor has been guided partly by the comparative merits of the Discourses, and partly by a reference to an order of subjects. It was felt to be desirable that the book possess as much unity and logical connection

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as it was possible to give to it under the circumstances.

It was the practice of Dr. Rauch to write out carefully the first or principal prayer used at public worship. As these prayers are edifying and aid in affording the reader an insight into the spirit and character of the man, we have allowed them to hold their proper place. A number are manifestly incomplete, but they have been inserted without any additions. In some cases the prayer is wanting entirely in the manuscript.

"With these preliminary remarks we submit this posthumous work to the Christian community, and commend it to the blessing of Him in whose service the Author lived and labored and died.

E. V. G.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Oct. 13th, 1856.