November 12, 2007

• “One Nation under God” & “In God we trust” Motto for today or yesterday?

  The pledge of Allegiance:

  I pledge allegiance, to the flag,

  of the United States of America,

  and to the republic, for which it stands,

  One Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

  Francis Bellamy was a Baptist minister, who wrote the Original Pledge in August 1892. It has been in use in the public arena even though some minor changes have been made here and there since that time. 

    “Dear Sir: You are about to submit your annual report to the Congress respecting the affairs of the national finances. One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins.You are probably a Christian. What if our Republic were not shattered beyond reconstruction? Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring the allseeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW.This would make a beautiful coin, to which no possible citizen could object. This would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. From my heart I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters. To you first I address a subject that must be agitated.” -Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania.-

  “Dear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition.” -Secretary Salmon P. Chase said in a letter to James Pollock.-

  “I approve your mottoes, only suggesting that on that with the Washington obverse the motto should begin with the word OUR, so as to read OUR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY. And on that with the shield, it should be changed so as to read: IN GOD WE TRUST.”  -Salmon P. Chase-

  *Every Since April 22, 1864 The U.S. Government has been putting the Phrase “In God we trust” and “Our God and our Country” on all of our currency.

  Visit the U.S. treasuries website: http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.html

  What do you think? “One Nation Under God” & “In God we trust” sayings for today?

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