-- Thursday, Apr 4, 1901
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] ... [President Snow:] Said that there are many bishops in the church, who are not capable and efficient in their official calling, many of them not being naturally endowed with the qualifications for the bishopric. In all such cases they should be released and others planted in their stead. The payment of tithes should be carefully looked after. There are 10,000 non-tithe-payers in the church. This should not be. ... (1)
-- Monday Apr. 7, 1901
[Anthony W. Ivins] ... Under the management of the Pres. Snow the financial condition is greatly improved. It is true we are still in debt but our obligations are not due and we are prepared to meet these obligations when they are due. If the people will continue to pay their tithing as at present the Church will soon be entirely out of debt. . . (2)
-- Sunday, Apr 7, 1901
[Apostle John Henry Smith] Brigham said our enemies will never be satisfied until we put a hundred tons of Nitro Glycerene under our God and blow him to shreds. President Joseph F. Smith spoke on the law of Tithing. (3)
-- Monday, Apr 8, 1901
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] President Snow. Topics treated. Only those who are fully entitled to their second anointings should receive this blessing. Presidents of stakes are under a high responsibility in this matter. The elders of Israel will never be called to go back to Jackson County, unless they conform in perfect obedience to the law of tithing. Some bishops were derelict last year in teaching the people of their wards the law of tithing. The proper name of the tithing record is the "Book of the Law of the Lord." "This church will never go back to Jackson County to build up the temple, until the church as a church learns to observe the law of tithing. No one can get a remission of his sins except by baptism, and so no one can secure the blessings of the land he occupies except by observance of the law of tithing." ... (1)
-- Apr 8, 1901
Apostle John Henry Smith reports on general Priesthood Meeting: "President Lorenzo Snow spoke ... on Tithing ['This church will never go back to Jackson County to build up the temple, until the church as a church learns to observe the law of tithing']. ... Reed Smoot on tithing. Rudger Clawson on Record Keeping. John W. Taylor on putting the brethren who visited them in clean beds free from bed bugs." (4)
Footnotes:
1 - Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993
2 - Diary Excerpts of Anthony W. Ivins
3 - Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990
4 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
Mormon Tithing Timeline /Chronology
http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
