A familiar phrase was coiuned during the depression "As poor as a church mouse"
Look up DL Moody, Charles finny, John wesley and a hundred others you won't find a tithing message -- The tithing message really came into prominance in churches in the late 1970's and early 80's with Oral roberts sucess with the book seed faith and the tele-evangleists.
Go on the internet search out these things find out for yourself its all out there just a few clicks away.
What about the Mormons? I thought they tithe, and they are older than 50 years?
Perhaps it's more accurate to say that Christian congregations and leaders have only recently rediscovered tithing, an ancient scriptural law in the times before Christ.
But early Christian church leaders, I believe, taught and practiced tithing.
Augustine said: "Tithes are required as a matter of debt, and he who has been unwilling to give them has been guilty of robbery." (bringing to mind Malachi)
Jerome taught that anyone that fails to tithe "is convicted of defrauding and supplanting God."
Ambrose, a Roman contemporary of Augustine, wrote: "God has reserved the tenth part to himself, and therefore it is not lawful for a man to retain what God has reserved for himself. To you he has given nine parts, for himself he has reserved the tenth part, and if you shall not give to God the tenth part, God will take from you the nine parts."
The Council of Macon established tithing as a requirement in 585 A.D.