Double-Tither

Death last month took John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Murray left a will. But strangely unlike the bequest of a prince of the Church was this last testament. No hospital or needy mission gained by the primate's death. All his estate Bishop Murray left to his wife; there were no bequests to charities.

But Bishop Murray left a letter too. It said: "The reason that no bequests are made by me to agencies or persons other than my own immediate family is because during my entire income-earning existence I have consistently and continuously given one-fifth (20%) of my income from all sources to church, charity and collateral relatives."

Bishop Murray, supererogatory chari-tarian, had doubly tithed.