Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-05

on tithiug was carried forward against
as. I think that WuH Discontinued w
the beginning OF President Taylor hd-
mlnistrntou. since that time we nave
simply been credited with the amount
paid some with nfty cents, some Win
4 dollar. tvo dollars. three dollars ten
dollars and the like Such small amounts
have been frequently been pald uy
stout. healthy. ahiebudied men; while 100
other Cuuef the only uthlnE phll ~ we
family has been that when inc Wiie
has paid on her eggs ana puiteI yl.
] have often remarked, when brethren
have Haked me concerning a. that
wished we could nay Of the iatter-dly
Saints who hold standing IN the
church OF christ. that there was
sixty per cent paying tuU TIN.
Ing. could only say, mat
Saints paid u fun tlthinE ! could not
ru any farther. according 20 thF records
furnished uH by the various stakes uf
Zion. There was time In the history
of the Chruch whom un ahlc-bodiel
man. whether he had much OF
little. was expected 10 pay not less
than from stj to tls year on tithlng.
When 1 arrived in snit Lake city. on
me first day Of 1865. I was told b. the
bishop OF the ward that I was expected
30 nay ftH as uthlng. / was not asked
how much I was earning, or how much
I could earn. I was alone ana hfuut,
and that was what was told me by my
bishop. In those days ! understood
bishop 90 be a Judge In Israel. with
authority 10 say what my tlthIng was.
That was Kept up for many years,
while I was bishop u Logan we ala it
many years. We would say 90 Brother
John. or Brother Thomas, You have
done well 20 pay what you have, hut
In looking over your surroundings We
think you ought 20 make u "a hluc
more" and We would mention the
amount we thought about right "All
right, Bishop. II you say 30, ! VIII make
Il up TO what you think Il ought to be-
/ am now telling you little ancient
I history. " you please 90 call Il such.
/ but u il what we used 10 meet with In
I the early days. We have been ntruying
away from the principle N tthns
I gradually. until now " the Bishop pre-
| sumca TO say 90 anybody that be thinks
] hiH tlthing i1 not what 10 ought 90 be-
] he VIII be- politely informed that n Il
] none uf his hualneHH. have heard
| such talk ais that before now, or
would hardly presume TO repeat II. II
! I had the records with me. I could tel
| you Ia "a minute Just how many do moi
/ nay tithlnE who ought to. and how
] many there are that fail below $50 pei
! year which would seem 10 be- the mini
mum tithlng for n healthy, able bodied
| man. OF course. wages to-day are mol
40 high as they used to be-. To put M
on par with the saints In early day.
] In these mountains tho difference be-
/ tween the wages then and now would
make the minimum somewhere between
$50 and fls Instead OF SIS. n we canno
get employment, then I do not know
why We should not pay the tenth Of ou
time 10 the Lord
There are great blessings promise,
IN connection with the law ~ tithlnF
and I am Just selfish enough 20 wan
an the blessings that are promises
through obedience to that priucipl,
! I ind that there Is not a tcmpou
blessing promised. except through obe
dicncc unto that law. Further thai
that n I observe not that law. m,
name shall not be known In the mids