The Indigent Widow's Faithful Tithing

“I have heard cited by one of our prominent Church officials the incident of an indigent widow, whose support was drawn almost entirely from the ward. She was employed to render such service as was suited to her condition in the meeting house, and in the various local institutions. At stated intervals the bishop placed at her disposal a small amount of money and provisions, and as regularly did she return a tenth, and ask for credit as a tithe-payer in Zion. One of the ward officers, not fully comprehending; the sister’s purpose, protested against what he considered a useless and empty form of giving. Why should that woman be permitted to encumber the record books with statements of trifling payments, when she had to receive back straightway all that she gave and more beside? But the widow pleaded that her mite be not rejected, and that she be not deprived of the privilege accorded by divine decree to every member of God's Church. She asserted that in her younger days, and particularly during her husband’s life, when wages had come regularly into the house, a tenth had been invariably sent to the store house of the Lord; and now that she was alone, with little return for current daily toil, and with only the gift of charity for her support, still was the trifle that came to her her own income, and could she not have the privilege of tithing it? — Millennial Star 60:34”