| Show A PRACTICAL PREACHER IT looks as if the gospel as revealed through joseph smith and preached by b the latter day saints was leavening the whole religious lump more rapidly th than ansome some people suppose the due duc trine of tithe paying has been repeatedly denounced as one of the object tio tenets of the church it appears however that some men ol of liberal ideas la in the sects are beginning to recognize it as a part of the biblical code and urge the necessity of its practice as a cardinal principle As evidence of this we present the following which appears in the december issue of the chicago mail it is as clearly our duty to give one tenth of one ou incomes to tue tae lord a as it is to give one seventh of our time said the rev J M caldwel at the meeting of the methodist ministers the reverend gentleman then proceeded to make a long argument wits with this idea as a basis many texts were quoted to show that the old testament writers all agreed that one tenth should be given to the lord and that this doctrine was reiterated in the new testament the same as is that of sabbath keeping mr caldwell gave on nu berous examples to show how this plan operated practically on those who adopted it he himself had bad always arar practiced alced giving one tenth of his T income and had bad prospered by it A few years ago be had supposed himself to be worth at least after his debts were paid suddenly he be to find his bis property all gone and himself in debt it then became necessary tor him to as same obligations to the amount of notwithstanding abing ading these heavy liabilities be continued giving one tenth ol of his income to the lord As a result of this his bis debts were now paid and he be was in better financial condition than before dr caldwell gave many other similar aarand larand and more wonderful ceef case even ef prosperity which he ascribed to jacobs vow or the giving of one tenth to the lord lom dr in discussing the matter thought that bet methodist theodist ministers should not be called upon to make greater sacrifices than at ati present many of them now only got sufficient sufficient fa clet means to live and it would be I 1 impossible for them ito give the amount he think much of jacobs vow anyway anyiwo most any mercenary man could take le such a vow alma most oat 0 of those who dis discussed assed the paper 11 however agreed with mr caad ca df well we congratulate mr caldwell as the esith bosses fiorot something something like a living balth qualified by wor works s and a direct method of preaching the truth as it is in the scriptures to hear bear a metho i dist minister speaking of practical religious duties alfter ier the wander manner b of a mormon elder ang ana the genius of the gospel is indeed refreshing should the methodist church follow the precept and practice of mr cald wel aeu it will gave have to look out for or eakers leaf the governmental paw be upon its nard aard earnings |
