What follows are image scans of a pamphlet printed by the North Park College News in 1926. I found it this week among my stuff in Portland. I don’t know why I have it, or why this document, amongst all the David Nyvall/North Park/Mission Friend/Covenant materials in my parents’ home which could have survived, this is the only one which did survive.
This is the text of a lecture originally given by David Nyvall to a Cook County (Illinois) Young People‘s Conference held at North Park College in Chicago in January of 1926. Nyvall’s words are scholarly, erudite and at times, poetic. Definitely worth a look.
David Nyvall was an early President of North Park University in Chicago, a President of Walden College in McPherson, Kansas, and founder of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
“Doubt is opposing faith in a different manner. It is not unbelief. Unbelief is the darkness of the starless night, solid and unbroken. Doubt is the changing, moving shadows of the sunlit day or the starlit night. Unbelief is voluntary blindness: doubt is imperfect sight.”
– David Nyvall
[Please click on the images to read the text. Click twice to see the full size scans.]
