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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.
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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.
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