Links to Tithe info:
March 28, 1905 letter from James Edson White, President of the Southern Missionary Society, to A. G. Daniells, President of the General Conference concerning the question of tithe given to the Southern Missionary Society and questions from G. F. Watson, president of the Colorado Conference:
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In September 1992 James Standish published an article titled "The Other Side of Tithe" in the magazine The Anchor arguing to withdraw or redirect tithe away from the organized Adventist church. Several months later in December 1992 Glyn Parfitt published a lengthy and detailed research paper which carefully refutes each of Standish's arguments. Parfitt's paper was later summarized into a three page article and printed in the March 9, 1996 Record here. I personally contacted Mr. Parfitt and obtained permission to share his research paper online (file size 88mb):
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James Standish's article titled "The Other Side of Tithe" published in The Anchor, September 1992 here (file size 8.5mb):
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'The Support of God's Kingdom in the Earth' a booklet containing messages on tithe from the 1907 Adventist church conference held in San Jose, California. Authors Ellen White, Milton Charles Wilcox, Walter Knox, John Corliss.
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"Tithe, the Watson Letter, and a Better Way" booklet published by Abundant Health Ministries 1989, republished here online with full permission from authors. Title of the book is based upon the following quote from Ellen White:
"You ask if I will accept tithe from you and use it in the cause of God where most needed. In reply, I will say that I shall not refuse to do this, but at the same time I will tell you that there is a better way.
It is better to put confidence in the ministers of the conference where you live, and in the officers of the church where you worship. Draw nigh to your brethren. Love them with a true heart fervently, and encourage them to bear their responsibilities in the fear of God. "Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (1 Timothy 4:12). Letter 96, 1911, p. 1. (To Mrs. J. J. Gravelle, December 29, 1911.) (Published in The Early Elmshaven Years, p. 397.) {12MR 271.3}
"You ask if I will accept tithe from you and use it in the cause of God where most needed. In reply, I will say that I shall not refuse to do this, but at the same time I will tell you that there is a better way.
It is better to put confidence in the ministers of the conference where you live, and in the officers of the church where you worship. Draw nigh to your brethren. Love them with a true heart fervently, and encourage them to bear their responsibilities in the fear of God. "Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (1 Timothy 4:12). Letter 96, 1911, p. 1. (To Mrs. J. J. Gravelle, December 29, 1911.) (Published in The Early Elmshaven Years, p. 397.) {12MR 271.3}
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