Religion: Dynamic Kernels

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.—Malachi 3:10.

This ancient text on tithing still looks sensible to Quaker Perry Hayden, an energetic mill executive of Tecumseh, Mich. Five years ago Hayden launched a dramatic experiment to prove that tithing works. He planted 360 kernels of wheat in i a plot...

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