In his July 1838 tithing revelation, the Lord both affirmed the law of consecration and

modified the ongoing way in which the Saints were expected to

consecrate of their money and property.

Rather than following the 1831 system outlined in D.N.C. 42, of legally deeding all of their property to the Bishop and receiving

back from him a legal lease of property known as a stewardship.

The Lord asked the Saints instead to follow a tithing system of paying one tenth of all their

interest annually. Only months after this tithing revelation was received the

Saints were violently expelled from Missouri and just over a year later found themselves as refugees settling a swampy piece of land in Illinois they would call Navu.

In today's episode of Church History Matters, we begin by diving into what consecration looked

like in Navu and then trace the practice into Utah.

And rather than seeing a clean, linear break from the DNC 42 financial

consecration system of stewardship to the DNC 119 consecration system of

tithing, we instead see in the historical record what appears to be various forms of overlap between

and hybridization of these two systems.

Today we're talking about United Orders and Business Cooperatives in Brigham City, Orderville, and elsewhere,

and how the federal government broke up these cooperatives.

And finally, how we as a church came to settle more exclusively on the tithing system.

All this and more coming up.

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths,

and today we dive into our fourth episode of this series,

dealing with consecration and church finance. Now let's get into it.

Hello Casey, what's going on, sir? Not much what's going on with you, Scott.

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