With minor changes, this article was reprinted in the Columbia Union Visitor, April, 1992, and described as “important counsel beneficial to members around the world”. Douglas Devnich, wrote a two- page article in the December, 1991, issue of The Canadian Union Messenger, in which he applied to me and to my article such malicious terms as “half- truths”, “distorts the writings of Ellen White”, “gross misquotations drawn out of context”, “accuses the pastors and leaders of the Church with falsity and apostasy”, “deceptive”, “dishonesty”, “willful intent to mislead”, “unscrupulous”, etc. A Union president wrote to me a letter bristling with personal abuse. The reaction to my report on the part of some church officials has been unusual, to say the least. Prescott, who had conducted similar research in the early 1900’s. My conclusions were the same as those that had been reached by Elders Willie White, A. In response to those questions, I spent much time in research in the Spirit of Prophecy and published a report of my findings on the subject in Our Firm Foundation, September, 1991. The central problem in their minds has been whether God required them to give financial support to the preaching of doctrines that they believed to be contrary to our faith Dear Brethren: For several years I have been receiving from many troubled church members questions about their Christian stewardship of tithes and offerings.
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