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for the public good. With its ninety or one hundred millions of property 
and money, it might extinguish the national debt of eighty-four millions, 
and still leave an ample support for its seven thousand members, or, at 
least, for its Secular Clergy, who would be cherished and sustained more 
liberally by the masses for an act of such Christian sacrifice and benev- 
olence. 
