Excerpt from History of Tithes From Abraham to Queen Victoria For centuries, after the Christian Era, Christians paid no tithesgua tithes. In some the Episcopal writings of the second and thi. Centuries, suggestions are thrown out, but nothing more, recommending the payment of tithes accord ing to the Mosaic law, certainly not with the view of handing over to the ministers all the proceeds of such payments, but to supplement the Church funds for the support of the poor, the fabric of the churches, and the ministers. According to the Mosaic law, the priests received but the one hundredth part of the tithes, for the Levites had also to be provided for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.