When a crop is harvested and sold, is it proper to pay tithe on the full amount, or would it be robbing God to first withdraw the necessary expense of raising and harvesting the crop, such as buying sacks for potatoes, for instance?
J. G. W.
That necessary expense would justly be taken from the sales before the amount was tithed. One does not take the value of his own time, however, from his work; but if it were necessary for him to hire a man to help him in the harvesting to the extent of $100 for instance, that would be deducted from it before the amount was tithed. That is not robbing God. That is a part of the expenses that are necessary to the harvesting of the crop, of which the man himself stands nine tenths, and God one tenth; consequently it is taken from the whole amount before the remainder is tithed.
