The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-02-26
WHAT If CATHOLICS GAVE IN
THIS SAME PROPORTIONAL

oil lie Cuul CuSS lSCSuClt
there has been manifested an interest
in tithing, and the Baptist (Chicago)
reminds us that "the argument for
| this practice from the Biblical stand
point is strong" while equally power.
full is the argument from results, both
spiritual and financial"
THE total expenditures of Ameri-
can Protestant churches for the year
1918, including both local expenses
and benevolences, were $249,77S,S3
If two per cent. of the members OF
| these same churches had an income
| of $4,000 a year and tithed it; they
could pay all the expenses of the
churches for that year. If four pei
cent. had incomes of $4,000 and tith
ed, or if five per cent, had incomes OF
$4,000 and did the same, or if two
members in each twenty-three had
the income of the bricklayer-$625 a
day and tithed, they could pay this
entire amount. The Alabama wait
ress gets, without tips, 81 cents day
This is the lowest wage known in the
United States. If one out of every
two Protestant church members in
the United States gave a 1.-THE of this
| wage, all the expenses of year like
1918 would be paid and there would
be balance of $10,681,27S. If every
| member gave such a 1.-THE, namely 81
cents day, the total would pay fol-
all the 1918 local expenses and benev
| olences and leave a margin of more
than $270,000,000. The small sum OF
1871 cents day from each member
of the Protestant churches of this
| country would maintain all church
expenditures on the 1918 basis and
provide for new work throughout the
world $1,OO0,0O0,OOO a year.
I'm 1918 the average contribution
] of the members of the Baptist church
es in the territory of the Northern
Baptist Convention was 8 cents anc
8 mills day. Everyone of these
members spent much more than that
each day on pleasures and Injuries
If this average could be increased tt
ST. cents a day, we should not only
raise the money we are now after, bu
have substantial margin. If thi:
average could be further increased t.
10 or Is cents a day, the Baptist'
would do a world work of unprece
denied power"
In Cincinnati manufacture
named Truesdale gives away regularl.
the first tenth of his income, runs hi
business so decently that his mel
never strike, and says he does thi
commendable thing because the bus
mess belongs, not to him, but to hi
Creator, writes RoIlin Lynde HART il
the New York Evening Post. Whel
the Methodists began rounding Vi
stewards a year ago, during thei
drive for sos, 100000, they defnitel
set out to establish Sound and pei
manent habits of giving" and one O
the less-heralded goals of their Ger
tenary was ga million tithers i
Methodism" They raised $4,000
900 and secured 100000 tithing stew
ards. A farmer gives the fruit @
every tenth tree in his prize orchard
another gives every egg laid on Sur
day; colored broom-maker in Mis-
sissippi gives every tenth broom. Pi
!, clubs and chicken societies in tn
!, South give every tenth pig, ever
tenth chicken; and a diamond me-
, chant gives every tenth diamond.
, was feared when the STEWARDSHIP
movement began it would have
chilling effect; "but it is a common
, place in the history of religion tina
great exactions, far from serving a
a deterrent, serve as an attraction
J and stewardship has turned out to b
| actually an instrument of evange
ISM
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