| Show FOR NOK NOE TITHE PAYERS it is not an uncommon thing to hear some one worrying about whit becomes of the tithes paid into tic tr c mormon church by its members investigation generally reveals that tha he who doe the worrying however aishe is he who never pays any tithing the man who pays an honest ith ing is content to know that lie he has done his duty without worrying about what becomes of it for him who worries about it however the following figures as compiled by the president of the church and given to us at the saturday mornin session of the recent conference by president lunt should helo heir to ieliene his mind of the tithing which was paid in 1922 was returned to wards and stakes to help out it in their maintenance was vas expended for maintaining church schools and seminaries emi went for erecting and maintaining temples went for charitable purposes and was used for maintaining missions and other missionary missi onay work more imore worthy purposes than these can hardly be conceived of some other rather inte interesting statistics were given at the conference referred to added to from the tithing account for charity oi there was in the way of fast offerings and contributions s from the relief society for the same purpose it is estimated that foi the he average of 1775 missionaries that hat were in the held field during 1922 the tic parents and friends nf those missionaries contributed bout toward their maintenance nance and that hat valuing the time of those missionaries sion slon aries arbs at 1000 each for the year fear a conservative es estimate of what they would have earned had they hey been at home and adding the t w wo 0 items to from the tithes athes for missionary work it makes a i total of expended by the he church membership of less than people fir missionary work alone something Sm ething as to the growth of the church is indicated by the christening t during the year of infants the baptizing of children and converts the birth rate of the church was 36 per thousand the death rate only 84 per thousand there are married people included in ill the church and during 1922 there were only members of the church divorced which is considerably below the average throng throughout hout the nation |
