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The word "ambush" is derived from  boscus, a wood, where certainly there is ample opportunity to waylay and launch a surprise attack upon an unwary and unwatchful adversary. An army advancing over difficult country will naturally take the precaution of sending forward patrols to discover and warn the main force of lurking dangers and, so far as possible, clear the way.

" And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues" ( Mark 16:17 ). Thus reads the Master's promise, and he adds ( verse 18 ), "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Prophesying of the coming of Christ Jesus and drawing a picture of the care he should receive when a child, Isaiah wrote ( Isa. 7:15 ), "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

" Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal?" ( Ezek. 18:25 ) is a Scriptural basis for the statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

" I Was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. " These words ( Ps.

Deep rooted in us all there is a desire to serve our brother man, to lift the burdens from the race, to bring it surcease from sorrow. Sometimes this impulse remains dormant until fired by the words of a great teacher.

It is not surprising that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, should incisively indicate that such an inconsistency as age has no place in Science, by the emphatic statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 246 ), "Never record ages.

As surely and as forcefully as the coming of the dawn, is the signification of Jesus' proclamation that we are heirs of the kingdom of God permeating human thought. Because of our acceptance of the belief that we are mortal beings, these heavenly riches have been denied us, and we have suffered the darkness and penury of mortal mind.

Almost daily I watch aircraft being launched from a carrier of the United States Navy; and if the wind is breathless, the planes are catapulted from the flight deck. This means an incredibly high rate of speed is induced instantaneously.

" How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" ( Isa. 52:7 ) This divinely inspired prophecy has been fulfilled in gratifying measure in the establishment by Mary Baker Eddy of the Christian Science services, which bring to sick, sinning, and weary humanity the good tidings of peace and salvation.