The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-26
ceremony Of Confirmation at the
Hebrew Temple,
DonaldsonYille, Friday, May ID, 1877,
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rrSrTvaT OF PENTECOST

DonaldsonYille, Friday, May Ii, 1877,
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FESTIVAL OF .PENTEcosT.
Address Of D. w. SORillr, tD- ID.
Again We see before US the sons of our
congregation, who vigorously begin and
fripen for life. They present themselves TO
confess To God whom they have acknoWi-
edged, to proclaim the truth, for whose pos
seasi0n they are not only born, but which |
they have now eontriyed and embraced by |
heart and mind. And we realize the import
lance and the sublimity of this mOment-we |
feel ourselves inclined to thoughtful cohsid- |
lerations at the renovation OF the inseparable |
covenant, in which our fathers have firmly
stood for four thousand years. Yea, my
friends. it is peculiar emotion, composed OF
anxiety and sorrow, of Joy and encourage
ment by which we are inv0lIRtarily effected
! at the aspect of our future hope, devoutly
fworshiping' the Almighty, Ell Shaddi, tpe
God of our ancestets.
{ Let us try to become clear of this joyful
anxiety, of this sOrrowful gladness. before
the important act of examination and the
holy ceremony of confession, Ia order to
smooth for us and our children an easier
path by which to approach the Lord
For this aim may remind you of a scene,
described by the holy word. Hagar, with
her fourteen year old son Ismael had to
travel through the vast desert Every thing
by which she could sustain the boy was con
snmed and her motherly heart almost broke
under the burden of anxiety for the future
OF her. only child. The youth wept and she
worshipped. And God card the voice of
the lad. And the angel of God called to
Hagar out of Heaven and said unto her:
What aileth thee, Hagarl fear not for God
has heard the voice of the lad, where he is."--
Genesis q, IL. .%
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What aileth thee I What other impress
zion principally prevails at the view of these
Young ones, than the remembrance of your
own childhood9 1T approaches you as a
shadow of the past and addresses your
hearts. Though you may be yet blooming
and luxuriating in thestrength of your lives,
ser your heads may already be covered by
Che winters snow remember you have been
.once like these. have given you much,
have you kept iti Has the rosy bud put in
your breasts developed and become a full
blown and Sweet scenting flower of life, Or
has the storm deprived it of its adjoining
leaves, has the worm corroded its bloom I
The growing child is the incipient man, even
now qualified and competent for all hunt an
affairs, What hopes are founded on our
young people. what designs and plans rest
in their breasts ;, Thus far the world is all
their, own. all life their possession. And
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ask yourselves, where childhood terminates
and manhood's stern reality begins
Have you preserved the innocence, which,
while you were children, was innate in your
souls Have your deeds and their motives,
your desires and wishes always been pure,
or have Your souls also yielded to passions,
deprived of their purity and polluted by the
corroding mildsw Of the world Behold, if
you have not preserved this Innocence of
childhood. then can you not TRANQUILITY I'M
dergo this determination and ought to htae
yourselves into the thicket of life as Adam
did before his Makers presence. For you
,have been once like these; alas, you are not
no now!
And further, what have you attained
How many of your hopes are fulfilled, bow
many designs have you completed, how
maty plans. wonderfully seryieeable, OF
course, ut Che time of their birth, have You
accomplished l ain web aware that man
is not always nlaster'qf his ways and aims
The picture of life, presented TO the youthful
eye, IN so highly adorned that some of ia
cUloFs must necessarily fade and some OF its
featuresv vanish. Have you obtained moth
ing at ALL not even gained the smallest
treasure OF the imagined Edenl Have yor
utterly failed and lost your way! Havt
you pursued path by which there is M
egressl May the hearts of all of you beat {
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And the sight of these youths. confessor
of Israers religion, the sight of those VIII
are about to acknowledge and proclaim til
only one God What else does it recall i,Ii
the admonishing remembrance of your ow
confession, whether 1t has been spoken i
the simple bemedietion over the Law, or in
s.lisc0urss taken out of it or in the mapne
in which these are doing it, in loud word al5
vow Because all of these ways are aliE
in regard to their depth and significance
What else awakes ibis Consideration but thi
question: Have YOU preserved, what va
promised and vowed before the holy shrin,
before your blessing, dying pareptssl Hay
you renamed iaithtui 10 the PROMISED word
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