Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . a matter of debt ; John Chrysostom,Cassian, Origen, and others. Not a sin-gle voice of authority is raised againstthe tithe among all these great names,immediately following the days of theApostles, and tithing was the universalpractice of the Church for 1,500 years. Because of complications betweenChurch and State in the time of HenryVIII., and his alienation of Churchtithes to himself and his friends, strongopposition arose to paying tithes. Un-der these circumstances many of thefounders of our Protestant churches,although realizing the obligation to paytithe
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . a matter of debt ; John Chrysostom,Cassian, Origen, and others. Not a sin-gle voice of authority is raised againstthe tithe among all these great names,immediately following the days of theApostles, and tithing was the universalpractice of the Church for 1,500 years. Because of complications betweenChurch and State in the time of HenryVIII., and his alienation of Churchtithes to himself and his friends, strongopposition arose to paying tithes. Un-der these circumstances many of thefounders of our Protestant churches,although realizing the obligation to paytithes to the Church, did not enforce it,and as a result most of the churcheshave abandoned, practically, this God-given method of financing His kingdom. With the majority of church mem-bers standing in the relation of robbersof God (Mai. 3: 8-10), what could be agreater hindrance to the accomplishmentof what the Church stands for in anydirection?—The Christian Steward^ February 1912 The Missionary Visitor 63 SPARE CASH CHRISTIANS. Free Trade Hall HE world will neverbe won for Christwith your spare pregnant andsuggestive sentencewas spoken by White, M. P.,a few days ago, in hisforceful address be-fore the United King-dom Alliance, in the , Manchester. It is a timely utterance, and as true as it istimely. It is a saying worthy of beingprinted in letters of gold, and hung upas a motto in every Christian it might be reiterated with advantagefrom every pulpit in Christendom. Youwill never win the world for Christ byyour spare cash. We may interpret thesewords in two senses. We can never winthe world for Christ by our spare,meagre, lean, narrow, calculating, eco-nomical measures; neither shall we winthe world for Christ by our fag-ends oftime and service, neither by our smallchange nor stinted and ungenerous do not despise the spare is good as far as it goes, but it doesnot go far enough. It is not the cash —spare or munificent—but
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