The Articles of Faith / A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

by James E. Talmage

6. Outline the modern Church plan of, 1, free-will offerings; 2, fast offerings as a modification of the foregoing.

7. Explain the advantages of fast-day observance, and fast-offerings, among members of the Church.

8. What is tithing?

9. Cite biblical authority for the observance of the law of tithing in ancient times.

10. State the requirements made by revelation for the tithing of the people today.

11. What is meant by consecration and stewardship?

12. Give scriptural instances of God's people having lived in the United Order. (Cite, 1, from Pearl of Great Price; 2, from Bible; 3, from Book of Mormon.)

13. Explain the United Order, or the Order of Enoch, as provided for the Church through modern revelation.

14. Show that individual freedom is provided for in the plan of the United Order.

15. Cite scriptural instances of the Lord's denunciation of the idler.