Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
Parley P. Pratt on the asked President Young
what he should do with regard to tithing and said he
2nd
I received a letter from Mrs White on Rhachael Robinson at the
point of the Mountain concerning her rights there I read it to President
Young He said that the Church had reserved one mile East & 2 miles west
of the rock for Church purposes a bathing esstablishment &c. I spent the day
in the office except an hour with the president in the morning he rode to his mill
A Lyman was with the president in the morning. H. C. Kimball spent the day
at home. P. P. Pratt asked President Young what He should do with
regard to tithing said he had been travelling & preaching a good deal & had not
paid any tithing. President Young said the Law of tithing reached evry man
He should pay his tithing if he had to have five times as much from the
tithing office in order to live & all that he had from the tithing office should
be charged to him & he should consecrate what he had to the Church
He said that he should consecrate what he had to the Church that his children
when he was dead should not squander his property & go to Hell upon it
I attended the Agricultural meeting at 7 oclk
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