ABSTRACT
Pentecost is second of the three Pilgrim Feasts is the Feast of Weeks (Hebrew). Pentecost is a word derived from the Greek, and signifying the "fiftieth day." Pentecost falls on the sixth of Sivan, the third month of the Jewish year. But besides being the Harvest Feast, Pentecost was also the Day of the First Fruits. The two loaves were themselves the first-fruits of the wheat; but Pentecost was a day of first-fruits in a larger sense. Pentecost, like Passover, is an historic as well as an agricultural Feast. Pentecost becomes a most impressive celebration. Pentecost is Religion’s own Festival. It reminds us of the nobility and the grace which the God-idea, with all its power over conduct, lends to the daily life. It was at Pentecost that the child in the Middle Ages was solemnly taken by his parents to school for the first time.
