27 JUNE 1925, Page 27

THINE INCREASE. By P. W. Thompson. (Marshall Bros. 2s. 6d.)

Tms is a very earnest and vigorously written plea for alms- giving. The writer urges that we return to the custom of tithe-giving ; that the tithe should be paid regularly by

everyone as naturally as rent is paid. It is only after the tithe has been paid that alms-giving can be counted a virtuous act at all. The writer is careful to emphasize that the giver is invariably blessed with an increase of this world's goods rather in the spirit of the hymn :-

" Whatever, Lord, we give to Thee Repaid a thousand times will be,

Then gladly will we give to Thee . . . "

but perhaps that argument is unavoidable nowadays.