Show let J THE LAW Of TITHING 4114 nemnrka made nt Flllmoro Ulnh Wednesday Mny 24 1800 by led BISHOP WILLIAM B PRESTON trill itA A Until or Itio I Impe I Ito l Iw Inrnnl A Itllo I TltlilnR I 14 Nut n UllilneTho Aus oil lllsliopn Jnlffo on Tit ho lujlnir I Time 3lay be Tlllinl IrvmliM of MR lllcsslnip Conditioned upon Obedience lull Ircn Slioulil bo liutrticlftl mea me-a OlJfCt IXHOIH 0 get I deilre very much my brethren I and A I Hutrri that you Bin me your filth anti I prayer that t may say eom lhln < < at If hat Mill U for our mutual Kent and I Is to I benefit lm honored and tdommaj In traveling with Hit Prophet ot the Lord 1 reil lent Irfirenio Slow on his Journey din Ihruuith thli felt of the country from Ila fit Ueorire northward We hat hail a err pleasant Irlp so fir I hivt l n > try Inteil lo not the kind attention that Item been raid lo him not because Ila in I time heard him remark he u I lot cUt ono Hnow but becaui hl It the irof h t ut the lArd come lo give the word a ot the Lord to Uf and In till Ul what to do to In I moved and finally brought the back unto the ireeehce of our lather 11 When we tom 10 examine ourvelvess go I we find tint we have much la learn I I have Wn made to feel 1 on thin Jour nd ley tint I have learned but little yet Ito nh Ir 1A concerning the inn lion of aalvatlan h anti I redemi II n And the revelation of hie 1h lx > rd Jem i brief unto this ixmpl In I am periuadel trim my observation PPC and from Ihe statistics you furnish III from year if > year that we have Act rce I ly roinmenreil to live the rlnclple ot lr ed tile loenel ai revealed unto Ul through the the I rothelJuielh Vmlth We at still lf JJ tIh1oo it rhlllren end II will be a bleailna I 1 11 10 us It a will carry the ilrlt or th childhood with us In other words have llns a leactinble plII 1 9 I I ton f Th word of he Lord 10 up fit I that sn We are nol rulnllln the law I of tithes oil and offerings We Nr 10 have only Just eomnnllu work al II We have I Vem either mined unsolved ai a People p nor our generation observe Ihl law IVY have not let commenced to study the great bleeilniii that are roinleeU t through obeilience unl that Iw We Ire I-re told In the revelation that Zion bU not 100 Zion unto ui If we fall lu keep that law We tire told 1 In the plane revelation that our named il all not be = f meball known In Ihe mldit t the letter mints It we oliere Hot III law nt lllhlnx The data we gather from the various war ll and I Stakes Zion prove I that we have not obeerve1 that law Very nearly twenty nve ir cent at those Latter Points who ought top to-p till Ing do not toy anything fbI li fb-I perhares twenty nve ir rent more of t 7IUCI le 1 who 1my l what ll formed n little 1 tllhlnKlf urn a term can lie flood In lhat com erllon It you made a note it the t I unit and agreed lo paton per cent Interest for the money borrowed bor-rowed could I yi u satisfy your banker by I Ittylnit him a little len per rentr if 11 I am afraid I It wool only satisfy him Im little t prmtime If many of ui 01 we r 10 reckon Its 10 how we otood tH fore the lArd In I the matter of tlthlnir for the rOIl rw rearm we should very P at loont As has been mid fit ho u no phe I Iw of IIlhln file Lord will Membor them Jim III orlk Iblr wkn own and faults In n rr Lets And will Move upon IhPln fly if iloW Power ot IIi spirit 110 all other things necessary for their Palvanot I rr 1C n find exaltation rrAr we or Rre we not I n the q Koln 11 pay our tithing to I the nomt 0 II Imporlant question now before the LRt 990 11 I t ordar Sainte It we dpr1do that vin Art nlVoVnirio Pay Illhlnir we hat I I 11 Ikely kind unHiei n little Wilrul I I eom of you Mill romcmlHr doubtless j that the time wan hon Ahat we owed on tithing WAS earrhol forward aoalnel me 1 think that was dlooUnud In the bWrnninjof rrHrdenTfaylor a ad mlnlilrallon II Inoe that time we hive limply been trailed with the amount wmd r IMldaome with fifty cenn tome with a dollar two dollar three dollar ten dollars and Uhe Ilke uch IInoli mount have books frequent In road by tout healthy ablebodled men while In other canei the only tithing pal I In the family hi been llial which the wife I I baa I pill nn her egg and butter eke I hate often remarked when brethren have aeked me concerning Ituhat I willed we c ull lay of the laller diy points who hold A Handing In Ih Church of Christ that I here waa silly per cent paying a full tlth I lIhi Inc rreo I tovive f y that I toped M per cent of the t filler Halnta sold a full tllhlng I could not go any farther according to this records furnished jig by the various Plaited ot Zion Then was a time In the history of tin thrarh when an able bodied man whether 101 had much or little was expected to pay not lose IlIon I-lIon from Sit to III a year on lllhlng When I arrived In Halt Ijtta City on he flnt day or IOU I seem told by the I IIIhol of the ward that I WAR exiierled In pay til 01 tithing I was n it aiked how much I WAR earning or how much I coul I earn I weed alone and proof I and I that wai what was told me by I my ttihop In those ddire I understood abe blihop to a-be a Judge In Israel with authority In pay what my lllhlng waa That won ken up for many Years While I WAS blihop of Lo atl we dill It mini yean W e would uy 11 licenser John or lito t her Thomas You have done well U pay what you have I but In looking over your mrroundlnci Me think you ought to make It a little more and Me would mention the amount Me thought about fight Ml 1 right HIht It you my an I will make It up to what you think It iu < ht to be I am now telllnK you a Mule indent history If you lleeee to call U Ruth I out It U I what we used to meet with In the early da I W eluebeellllmylnK nony from the rlrrli U of tlthlntc gradually until now It the IHehop prto I urnei lo Hy to aa body that he thinks him tithing li I not what It ought to be hi will be I iwlllely Informal that U In Ilion I-lion of hill builneie I have board t mulls talk ai that before now or I Moult hardly preiume lo repeat II II r had I the record with me I could tell you In a minute just how many do not pay tithing Mho ouiht to awl 1 how many liters are that fill below 130 per > ear which ould went lo be the minimum mini-mum tithing for a healthy at bodied man Of coune winei today are not mi Mull ai they used I to be I To tout ui oil a imr with tho taints In early dRIB III theie mountain the difference lie I tellers the wastes then and now would make the minimum somewhere ISO and IIS instead of IH If we cannot ml emploiinent IIen I do not know Mhy we hulnot pay tho tenth of our time lo the Lard There are grost blessings promiAld In conatIon With lile IIw nf IIIhln And I lent just stinh enough lu v at All file blolnoo that are prointt Ihrouab obedience 10 that rlndpl I find thAt them Is I nl a tempooral bIrsaing Promised exorpt through obc I llloto onto that law I rutbor than that It I ohmerve not Ihal Iw my name boll not pr knon In the nld1 or the IAIIefIY Points anol I am very anxloui I hwve n y name and Ihe rutmea ot my Posters knuvn amoung I the letter Halnti ai tltheixyoni lint ai well tell llw Itlihnp in mark rl r hll mr name 1 fr the record is of hi word boationts we dn nol want to be known Amongst the eople I do not believe however that the Latter Points feel that way Ai parent we have much to emotes for In the training < of our children The wise man uld Trim up a chill In the way le mj ihoul I go and when he U I oil he Will not depart from II How are we training our rhlllrer 1 I am afraid we are guilty of neglect In this particular A halt lime ago In one of our northern words I MW the evl dene of ft little good training which I really delighted me I happened I t > be In the tithing office ot that ward when a little boy Hepped In and hand Ins In some money p the clerk toM lira to lake eighty rents out of II I for tithing I aiked him hi U name He told me How old are > ol I forget now whether he Amid I t eleven 1 or twelve yean old I U here ire you IiI later He toll me flow much wigel are you gelling Mart I dollar a nt KTI m nth And you come In fair Your lllhlng regularly every month do you IT Ar 114111114 tollo In not to ring the = to Its tlll ive PAM my lllhlng I Tell almost like huggln the boy and hid mother too If the hid been there for training her boy Ar that manner It was exartly Illif with the panage of Krllture tl In have quoted Ifet = rdold tint lake that W cents lo the tithing I nRlie I herself And put It to the boys credit t t1h she taught the bay to lake It hlmulf This II I what all fathers and mother ought h > dn They ought 10 teach their twoys 10 Ik Ihelr lllhlng lo the tithing office sot 110 so-t their names mar be known In the midst of the AnstrdAY Points front their routh ur then It will net provo a hardship 10 them when they 1141 older 1 1 A while ago I was looking up the records to i we bow much llthlng was by the hands employed in the rl r nh i nv VO Wooltior Mille and I WAR very pleased I to note that the girl I is who are workbut In that Institution were pay true I their tllhlng but woo Perry lo find ml that not me hilt ot the lOon and boy of the 1 Institution I paid thHr llth 1 IOlIr 1 Ing Ai father we will have to com France lo examine oureUei and weigh l irieltel In the balilxe to ire where we stand before the Ixrl for the Fee di are lln < < ken all the lime There a re Iwo more of record too one ot them II I kept In title lite ant one In the other life I mellme hope that our record hr III compete rorbl Alth those In the other life but I am afraid they will I not Too frequently we l4y In for IIIbln something tint U I ot nol I mUch value 10 us still that Arr cannot use oureelvestom old ow or loon or mousendror or that kind that we stannot convert Into Posner me we turn It 1 Into In-to the IIIbor w should t least It Y an average In quality of Ib1 which w tunlure still I pay a tenth In the session IhNOr Mien we gather our flocks let the tithing iheep be at least on in r mver with the 11 of In 110 book of u = CITY U n Tit I wIto Ifir not II It In 110 01 T p 11 the tenth ot heir nk the I 1lul 1 dff the red 1 I asked ro 1 I Tlor on how 110 mtst II IIr rolld Aa they rn Under th rI 1 bishop Ih tauchod tenth UoIoo4l as the every ng I MC 11111 tt mid hl short they trol Into the Wat corral 1 hw Could h know which had I t mchotil a i rih 1i Y vedd he they Xt Ont hing Rod dipped It 1 Into b1lok or red POInt and 61 1 hey ran under the coal they Mimed them fill the lot An t hen tcncu inm oiii i me neru nor ardi V thought that I MII a very nl let way and I upeak of u because Ihli u I somewhat of a eheep railing country coun-try tryI I do nol know hot what many or our fault and falling are rhartteable lo the Primer A for not vlilllni the houeei uf the member of the church and teaching them the principle it the Hope Inrluling I Ihe prlnelile of tllh lisq and then lo the Teieherl for not imjulmw faithfully and llgenlly lo re a that eery member remrmberi him I n7i r tlthet anti offering In the leaion lherr I would not like lo go any fur lrr than that and say that any Anoi He was rwponill I I or that any FTler or IrtJh p wu responsible fir II but I seriously ask myself the question Am I repoiwllle for the iltuatl Hut I the 1rr III A III I IropliH ot the Inrl nnd the letter diy Saint In tnliy herein have I I been neglectful mmernlng laying lie I fore the taller day Hilnli theme Im I pvrtitit queitlom I rememt being In a ward down loulh here and after talkIng 1 talk-Ing lo the J people Ihe Bishop > aid lo me 1 Vhy Ilrolher I reel n tons the way you mi there Is I nohln hardly Per timing to the last I ropt the Paying lrlnh1h of tllhlng Wir1 laid I there II a whole lot beildei thai but thai li I avery a-very Important Item fr the conel lera lion at the IA lt rday l Point In I that there art so many treat and A riuul blessings rroml1 thrmgh ilieillenco Unto that law and I want to sea the Latter day Hilnti working t for ihone t dva blelrK I Find that Me are not workIng work-Ing for them today and we are under condemnation before the lord becauie of It I Ii li I a Flood tine now rr > nun nu-n < 1llo repent of our ahrlrotnlnca and hllooIoln 0001 mmn to turn ova ov-a new lost ruin this time henceforth Today to our tomorrow li I not ant the Owner we comment to weigh our eelvei In the lialanc And ie how much boll We are the better It I will lie fr ui The Lord Mil lo ancient Israel Ililng ye all the tithes Into the star house that there may be melt In mine leads and prove me now herewith Point the I Lord of hull If I will nil open you the wlndowi of heaven md pour you out a Mending that there hill not be room enough lo receive U That lame Promise I II I to I Israel at today gathered In Iheee mounlalni I iiray the Lord thai lie may Inspire theme who ipeak and theme who listen that ill II our heart may be l turned unto the Lord to keip this great a not I holy prli clpNand 1 1 every other 1lnrllI that we enjoy all the bleInca Promised t rnsK faithful Amen |