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In the Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church, in October 1897, Franklin D. Richards, who was ordained an Apostle in 1849 stressed: “This Sabbath day may become a very grave question if we are to build up the New Jerusalem. It was one of the first things that the Lord complained of through the prophets anciently, that they had polluted His Sabbath, and they had profaned it, and they had not observed it:
“And when they got so they could do these things with impunity, they left off paying their tithing, and the Lord told them they had robbed God, the whole nation of them––they had robbed Him because they had withheld the tithing which they owed Him.