Tithing by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 47.

Tithing

By Editor

Tithing.—One international Sunday-school lesson printed in this week's SIGNS is entitled "Lessons in Giving." The scriptures to be studied in the book of Malachi deal with giving; but they do more than that, they deal with paying. No man gives the Lord the tithe; for the tithe is the Lord's already. Man owes it as a debt, and withholding it is robbery. And yet God does not ask it because He Himself needs it; He desires to make man a partner with Himself in acknowledging His just rule and ownership, in giving, in sacrificing, in the great glad rejoicing in the harvest home. Not only was tithing a duty in the days of the prophet, it is a duty now, in these days; for it is in these days the prophet's words apply.