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ing the gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathen for the 

 last thousand years." Macaulaj sajs : In 1684, the 

 whole non-eflfective charge, military and naval, of 

 Great Britain, can scarcely have exceeded .£10,000 

 a year. It now exceeds .£10,000 a day ; and 

 Charles Sumner, the eloquent author of the " Grand- 

 eur of Nations," says : — 



"By a table of the expenditures of the United 

 States, exclusive of payments on account of the public 

 debt, it appears that, in the fifty-three years from the 

 formation of our present Government, in 1789, down 

 to 1843, there have been $246,620,055 spent for 

 civil purposes, comprehending the expenses of the 

 executive, the legislative, the judiciary, the post- 

 office, light-houses, and intercourse with foreign 

 governments. During this same period there have 

 been $368,526,594 devoted to the military establish- 

 ment, and $170,437,685 to the naval establishment ; 

 the two forming an aggregate of $538,964,278. 

 Deducting from this sum the appropriations during 

 three years of war, and we shall find that more than 

 four hundred millions were absorbed by vain prepara- 

 tions in time of peace for war. Add to this amount 

 a moderate sum for the expenses of the miUtia during 

 the same period, which a candid and able writer 



