“Nowhere do the Scriptures permit any one to use the Lord's money at one's own discretion…”

   “Nowhere do the Scriptures permit any one to use the Lord's money at one's own discretion, except if, for some reason, it be impossible to send it to the Lord's ‘storehouse.’ Moreover, if one is allowed to continue in such a practice, then others should be allowed to do the same, which, if done, would not only deplete of means the Lord's treasury, but also cause great waste, confusion, disorder, and neglect, with the attendant consequence that the Lord's business would be as though it had no head at all -- a deprivation which the Lord's work has never in the past been able to survive, and one which it can neither row nor ever transcend.”—The Symbolic Code, Texas, 1936, Vol. 2, No. 12, pg. 9