« THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. ju ry happens to he of no im por- tance.’ flte door opened, and B lanche with C aptain buige>«»n and his wife came w alking in. A death ly p tllor overspread the features of ‘G< d, L iberty, Law.’ This would make a beautiful coin, to which no possible citizen could object. T his would relieve us from the ignom iny of heathenism . T his would place us openlv under the divine protec- G«»och. He trembled violently tion we have personally claim ed. H is te eth c h a tte re d . H e co u ld not From my h eart I have felt our sp eak for a m om ent. QOOOOOOOO ; - I F 55 ► ’ t: ► ’ SILVERTON, OREGON. n a tio n a l s h a m e in d iso w n in g G od ’ “ My God! it cannot be! he cried, an he buried his face in his hands “ This is too h >rrih J” There was a m om ent of awful silence. Gooch was completely crushed. “ Do y o u s u b m it? ” said C harlie, ’Uft* r a mom ent. “ I have n othing to say.” A police officer ste p p e d in. Gooch looked at him with a vacant stare. “ You m ust answ er f"r your crim e,” said Charlie. “ Resistance is useless. You m ust find your consolation in the prison. B lanche c'aim s her own. There m ust he no delay. To quote a little scripture, “ The way of th e transgressor is h ard .” Gooch slightly recovered him self. His hypocrisy had become such a h ab it th a t ii was really a part of his nature. “ W hom the Lord loveth he ch asten eth ,” he said. “ I hope I shall he able still to serve him .” “ You’ll make a good chaplain, and can preach for the edification of your fellow-convicts. The devil has failed yon, and you’d better stick to the Lord alter th is.” “ Alas for th a t theological sem in ary and those poor students and missionaries! I did it for their sake. I he dream of my life is gone, “Oh, this unregenerate w orld,” said the deacon, as he passed out between a co u p le of police officers. “ You are in the nick of time to as not the least of our present na tional disasters. To you first, I address a subject th a t m ust be agi tated .” W hether moved by this letter or not. S 'c re ta ry Chase wrote as fol lows on the 10th of November, a week later, to the Director of the Mint in P hiladelphia: “ No nation can be strong except in the strength "f God, or safe except in his de fence. The tru st of <>ur people in God should be declared on our na tio n a l e »ins. You will cause a de vice to he prepared w ithout unnec essary delay, with a m otto express ing in the fewest and tersest words possible this n ational recognition.” As it was found th a t the Director of the Mint had no a u th o rity over the mott(Hj8 to be placed on our coins, Congress having by a law passed in 1837 provided for them he prepared his designs and sub m itted them to the Secretary. The mottoes suggested were “ Our Conn tr y ; Our G od,” a’nd “ God Out T ru st.” In reply the Secretary w rote: “ I approve your mottoes only suggesting * * * th a t the first should begin with our “ Our G od,” so as to read “ Our God an< Our C o u n try ,” and th a t the motto on the shield should be changed so as to read instead of “ God Our T ru st,’ ‘In God We T ru st.’ ” An act was passed A pril 22, 1864 changing the com position of the one-cent piece and authorizing the coinage of the two-cent piece. It ( to be continued .) provided also th a t the devices of “ In God We Trust.’ the coins should he fixed by the Director of the M int with the Mr. Preston, the D irector of t h e ; appI.oval of th „ S ecretary of , he M int, has run down the origin of the m otto, “ In God We T ru st,” to be found on our coins. It appears the first suggestion of such a motto came probably from W. R. W atkin- son, of Ridleysville, Pa., who signed him self a “ M inister of the Gospel. n His letter to Secretary Chase on the subject was dated November 13, 1861. He s a id : “ You are probably a C hristian. W hat if our republic were now shattered beyond reconstruction? W ould not the an tiq u aries of suc ceeding centuries rightly reason from our past «hat we were a heathen nation? W hat 1 propose >' th a t instead of the Goddess of Liberty, we shall have next inside • he thirteen i-tars a ring inscribed with ’he W'»rds “ |>erpetual union w ithin this ring the all-seeing eye crowned with a halo; hemaith this eye »he American heat - ing in its field stars equal to w the num ber of the s’at»-s united; in 'T reasu ry . In accordance with this provision, the m otto, “ In God w;e T ru st,” was placed on the new bronze two-cent piece. By other acts, it was provided th a t it should he placed on certain silver arid gold coins.— Ex. th e i G i l d I s S ■ 1 )1 Ilf U I t m h e t Fi ll« u a i. Liberal U n iv ersity C om pany, f l i h l t . t w t - o n r n d k s , j We give the Torch of Reason arid the F reethought M agazine for one y e a r for the sm all sum of $1.50. Now is the tim e to subscribe. Enclosed fin d .................................. Dollars to assist in the Construction of the Liberal University at Silverton, Oregon. 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