Testimony of Healing January 26, 1974 Issue

One Sunday last fall I was introducing my two young sons to...

Terrell L. Holliday with contributions from Marie Lieto Kleine

One Sunday last fall I was introducing my two young sons to touch football in our backyard. During a rather reckless maneuver to avoid being tagged, I collided with a tree. The impact against my side was so great that I was left on the ground struggling for breath.

According to physics, the apparent solidness of matter derives from its character as structures and substructures of isolated particles held in a force or gravitational field. For several weeks I had been musing on this subject as defining matter's basic claim to be substance.

While still kneeling on the ground, I remembered Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health identifying the forces we tread on as inherently belonging to divine Mind (p. 124): "We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification."

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