3049.- Question of Tithing by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 22, 1910

3049.— Question of Tithing

By Editor

If a person has to buy machinery to harvest his crops, would it be right to take the expense of the machinery out of the crop, and then pay tithes on the remainder?

Hardly. He has his machinery after the crop is harvested. That is so much investment of his own. If he has to hire his crop harvested, that is another thing; but if he buys machinery in order to harvest it himself, he has invested so much more in capital, and surely before a man makes new investments he ought to tithe the money which he invests. After the crop is secured, he has so much more capital than he had in the beginning, in the machinery which he has purchased.