Clark, Wycoff, (Re: Scientific Theism, velocity of light), 1921 - 1923

The collection includes newspaper and journal articles, lectures, sermons and addresses, as well as correspondence, notes for an autobiography, photographs, scientific formulae, diagrams and lantern slides to illustrate his lectures and addresses.  Sources of the articles include German and Swedish newspapers as well as local and national newspapers and journals.  Correspondence focuses on commentaries on Reuterdahl’s theories and publications by his colleagues including Hudson Maxim, T.J.J. See, and E. Lee Heindenreich.

Reuterdahl’s 1927 presentation to the Minnesota Legislature on the teaching of evolution, as well as debates with Freeman Hopwood and William B. Riley on evolution and theism, form the general files of the collection.  Plans for an exhibition at the Chicago Centennial World’s Fair in 1933, the Temple of the God of Science, as well as correspondence with the architect, J.E.O. Pridmore are included.

Arvid Reuterdahl was a member of the Masons, and a practitioner of Scottish Rite Masonry. The collection includes a number of articles and lectures on symbols, psychic phenomena and related matters.

He was also editor of the Theistic Monthly, founder of the Interchurch Theistic Alliance and the International Theistic Society. Certificates and some correspondence relating to these organizations are in the collection.