The Right Way by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1882

The Right Way.

By Editor

MR. Edward Kimball, who has done so much for various churches in the United States, by assisting them to pay their debts, does not believe in having grab-bags and fairs to raise money. At a meeting in Oakland a few weeks ago, he was asked the question, "Do you advise Christians to tithe their incomes in offering to the Lord?" and replied as follows:—

“Yes; and I believe the requirement to be of universal obligation, not only upon ‘our substance,’ but upon ‘the first-fruits (not the last) of all our increase.’ ‘The tithe’ is not Jewish. It was in force and in observance, ages before there was any Jewish nation. Nothing shows it to be of later origin than marriage or the Sabbath.”

This is, in brief, a clear statement of the facts. We are told that “the tithe is the Lord’s.” The only question, then, that can be raised is the one raised by Malachi, “Will a man rob God?” He certainly will, if he does not return to him his own. We wonder how many who heard the answer of Mr. Kimball will heed it. It is a paying investment. See Prov. 3:9, 10.