CHAPTER XIII

Tithing; the Poor; Industry

Why the Law of Tithing was Instituted--Essential Nature of the Law of Tithing--The Law of Tithing a Test--The Law of Tithing, the Law of Revenue--Tithing--The Widow and Her Tithing--The Widow and Tithing--Who Receive Church Help Should be Tithe Payers--Use of Tithing--Commercialism and Tithing--Tithing Used Carefully and Full Accounts Kept--Books Open to Tithe-Payers--We Should Sympathize with the Unfortunate--Charity to be Accepted Only When Necessary--Cease to Waste Time; Cease to be Idle--Gospel Blessings Obtained by Labor--Idlers Have No Place in Zion--A Message of the Latter-day Saints on Behalf of the Poor