The tithing is not yours, it is the Lord's; and if you keep it, you are robbing the Lord that much. It is everyone's privilege to pay tithing. I heard the Prophet Brigham once say that the poor brother that was unfortunate and could not raise his living and had to receive it from his brother, had a right to pay one-tenth of this gift for a tithing and to claim the blessing of having paid his tithing with the promise that he should not be burned.