Tithing and the Second Tithe
By Editor
A Seventh Is Not One Tithe or Two Tithes.
A person writes us from San Francisco about the first and second tithe. He says that he earns $10.00 a week. A tithe of that would be $1.00; a second tithe would be 90 cents. This is correct. But he believes because God requires the seventh part of our time that the 10 ought to be divided by 7. The quotient would be $1.43, or practically that. He thinks the tithe then would be $1.00 and the second tithe 43 cents. Of course if that is correct logic and mathematics, it would work elsewhere. If our correspondent should get $14.00 a week and he should divide it by 7 he would get as a quotient $2.00. According to his method above, his first tithe would be 60 cents more than a tenth, and he would have no second tithe at all. There are who see no scripture for a second tithe; but if one believes it duty, let him pay it honestly. Above all things be faithful in that which is clearly taught, the payment of the one tithe. Let nothing excuse that; you owe it to God. As to the second, follow your best light.