The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-30
FEAST OF PENTAC0ST
JEWISH CELEBRATION BEGINS AT
 THE TEMPLE.
Rabbi Messing Delivers Eloquent ser- mon on Significance of Occa-
 sion-Claas of Ten to Be COn- firmed Today.

With appropriate services at Tenn pie Beth Or last night, began the Jew ish festival of Shebuoth or Pentacost, otherwise known as the Feast of Weeks. This festival will close with this evenings setting of the sun. It commentaries the delivery of the ten commandments to Noses on Moupt Sinai
 The feature of tho celebration will take place this morning in the au- dttorium of tho temple when ten boys and girls will be conformed. The ser- vices this morning will begin at 9:30 o'clock They will open with the usual Pentacostal service after which the confirmation exercises will begin. The confirmation class Is composed of Ber- tram Gerson, Joseph E. Hirscher. Jo- seph ketzky. Jeannetta A. Lobman. Pauline Lewy, Ray Lewy. Carrie Rice, Sabei.
 Following Is the program for to- days services:
 Service. Prayer Book pp. ls5-225.
 Confirmation Ode
 Invocation. frma Bertha Rice.
 Depositing the Flowers.
 Greeting. Rabbi A. J. Messing.
 The seraph's Song (with violin obligato).--Faure.
 N11sS MliiSpduSu.
 Princip1es--The Three Pillars, Jose phine Eugene Hirscher; Our Religion, Pauline Lewy: Our Mission. Bertha Gerson.
 Aria: ''But the Lord" tMendeissohn) Mrs. O'Brien.
 Ideals--ourselves and Others, Max Rice; Honor, Joseph Ketzky. Immor- tality, Ray Lewy.
 Holy Father" with violin obligato) Booth.
 Confession.
 Blessing the confirmants.
 Violin Solo. (Selected)-Mr. Lindner.
 Address to Parents. Jeannetta Alice Lobman.
 valedictory, Carrie Rice.
 Presentation of certificates.
 Closing prayer. Marcelle Sabel.
 Parents Blessing.
 "Father Keep Us' Sullivan -Hodses) ---Choir of Temple Beth Or
 Benediction.
 The services began at 8 o'clock last night when beautiful sermon was efoquently delivered by Rabbi A. ' Messing who spoke on the significance of the festival. His text, My beloved has gone down to the garden to gather IiIies." wass taken from Canticles, vi: 2.
 The rabbi said 1t was quaint Tal- mudic interpretation of this exquisite verse which said that the garden" meant the world, the beloved" refer red to the religious teachers. and the .1ilies' to the little children. He drew an interesting comparison between a lily and child. Each, in its way, was beautiful symmetrical and pure, but the lilies are suflied and soon fade. and so with children with bodies sus- ceptible to disease and minds to taint. A lily left to itself will drop and wither and it's Ieafy tendrels fall be- meath every blast, even so that human flower. without education. without mental equipment. child. is weak. a broken reed amidst the storms of life and so God sends His beloved" the teachers, into the world with directions for its saH ivation. They prepare the lilies fsf paradise.
 Dr. Messing explained the task of the Sabbath school teacher and pleaded for a better appreciation of the labor of instructors in religion. He closed with an apt illustration of the task which the sabbath school performs and the functions of the rite of confirmation in religious life.
 The confirmants will receive frienos and relatives at the Standard Club bee tween the hours of and o'clock this afternoon.