President [Lorenzo]
Snow read from the Book of Doctrine and Covenants: “Vision.” Kirtland Temple 3d
April, 1836.
He remarked
there are thousands and thousand of young men called to go on missions and it
is gratifying to be able to state that I can call to mind but one failure in
responding that they will be ready to go and do their best.xxx. The time has
now come that every Latter-day Saint pay Tithing in full. This is the Word of
the Lord and is to be told to the Saints in every Stake of Zion.xxx
Mothers,--Teach your children to pay their Tithing while they are young.xxx. We
will not hear the Lord’s voice until Jackson County is built up by the Saints.xxx
I don’t want anyone sent to the Temples to receive the Second Anointings unless
they pay their full tithing.xxx (James Godson Bleak, The Annals of the Southern
Mission, May 18, 1899, in The Annals of the Southern Mission: A Record of the
History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur
and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 810-11)