From those primeval dawns of which it is written, "The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy," to that "Lord's day" on the isle of Patmos when St. John was bidden to say to the angel of the church in Thyatira, respecting the one that overcometh, "I will give him the morning star," this distinguished herald of approaching day has ever symbolized some new revelation of Truth to a waking world. Those who have proclaimed it and reflected its glory, have for that reason been variously designated as sages, prophets, magi, wisemen. So far above the comprehension of the masses was the status of these seers of old, that it may be said of them that they gave character to the times in which they lived.
Such a one was Enoch, of whom it is written that for over three hundred years he "walked with God" upon the earth, and "was not; for God took him." On page 214 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says of him, "If Enoch's perception had been confined to the evidence before his material senses, he could never have 'walked with God,' nor been guided into the demonstration of life eternal." We know not what was Enoch's particular mission, but he will ever be to the world a shining example of man's great spiritual possibilities.
In a grossly idolatrous age Melchizedec, king of the sacred city of Salem,—typifying peace and righteousness,—appeared as a star of the first magnitude. He became the forerunner of a high order of priesthood, to which are ordained only those who have so liberated themselves from the fetters of human pedigree that they are able to demonstrate their likeness to the Son of God, of whom we read in Hebrews, that he was "made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life." The "morning star" of faith in God was Abraham, numbering his seed as the stars in the heavens, and perceiving through faith, when he was about to sacrifice his son Isaac, that life is spiritual and eternal.
