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Unfortunately, it was not within the Secretary’s purview to order changes to coinage. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.” “No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. Secretary Chase agreed, saying in a letter to the Director of the Philadelphia mint later that year, From my hearth I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters.” 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?. I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins. One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. “You are about to submit your annual report to the Congress respecting the affairs of the national finances. Watkinson of Ridleyville, Pennsylvania, initiated the campaign with a letter to Salmon P. Many devout Christians petitioned the federal government during the American Civil War asking that Congress create a slogan that emphasized our country’s founding upon biblical principles and recognized that our freedom is a gift from God. WASHINGTON DC – Apmarks the 155 th anniversary of the Act of Congress that established the phrase ‘In God We Trust’ to be minted on the coinage of the United States of America.