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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 3.

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Square Your Accounts.

THE old year is in the past, and merchants and tradesmen have taken invoice of stock on hand, accounts, cash on hand, and general assets. There is an item that is generally omitted, to which we now call your careful attention, and that is your cash account with God. The people of God from the earliest ages have been required to pay one-tenth of their income to him. Long before Moses lived, Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, the type of Christ, who said, "These things ought ye to have done and not to have left the other undone." We are bold to make the statement that there is enough money lying in bank vaults, belonging to God, with which to clothe all the naked, feed all the hungry, educate all the ignorant, and belt the world with gospel light as broad as the spheres upon which the feet of fallen and lost man have trodden.
No man or woman can be said to have given a penny to God's cause until the tithes are all brought in. Men and women who only give to God's cause and his poor when they are thawed out, are like icicles on the north side of a house, that shed a few drops of ice water on the warmest days in winter, but are larger and longer and more icy as the sun goes down. Let all of our readers see to it that God's cause has the one-tenth, and then make thank offerings and alms to the poor, until, like Cornelius, while fasting and praying, your soul shall be feasted by an angel declaring, "Thy prayers and thy alms are come up for a memorial before God;" thy prayer is heard. "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. . . . This whole nation." "Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, . . . and prove me now here-with, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it; . . . and ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts." Mal. 3: 8-12.
Square up your accounts with God!—Chicago Fire and Hammer.