“Imagine
the President of the United States and the Committee on Ways and Means sending
out jugs, mugs, boxes, barrels, eggs, and buttons with their pictures on them
to catch pennies to meet the fiscal needs of the great government of the United
States!
Imagine
the different states and counties holding fairs, festivals, concerns, and ice
cream socials. With women cooking,
sewing, and acting so that each community may meet its apportionment!
This
would disgrace any earthly government in its own eyes and the eyes of the
nations. Yet this is what Christians are
doing year by year to finance the Kingdom
of God
-from
Gems of Thought on Tithing, published 1911, By
George W. Brown, a Presbyterian layman
The
early Hebrews mentioned only crops and herds in their base for a tithe. Later when the people settled and started
raising olives and grapes, products such as oil and wine were included in the
base. A generation or two ago people
could not conceive of anything but cash as the base for a tithe. But with more people investing in the stock
market, and in real estate, people can now consider tithing other assets as
well.
--Wisconsin
United Methodist Foundation
God Is Still In Control!
Miss Lladale Carey
Web Content Producer
www.umcgiving.org
lcarey@umcom.org
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