Article March 3, 1973 Issue

An Interview: on college football

with contributions from Ed Gondolf

Ed Gondolf's football days are behind him now. A conscientious objector, he's currently fulfilling his alternative service obligation working with emotionally disturbed and delinquent teen-agers.

Don't you have to be pretty tough to play football?

Well, maybe so, but a lot of this pseudo-toughness that we put on—it's really a facade. It's saying, "I'm the source of all that I do." Well, you're not. You find out fast enough, at least I did, that in this game you can't rely on your own physical attributes or talents or personality—it takes more than that. You see the importance of being humble. I don't mean submissive to human situations or other people. Christ Jesus talked with authority, and I'm sure he even raised his voice once in a while. I think humility means submitting to God, to divine Principle, to Mind, not to human opinion and theory. Mrs. Eddy says, "Experience shows that humility is the first step in Christian Science, wherein all is controlled, not by man or laws material, but by wisdom, Truth, and Love." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 354;

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