[Have everyone take out either a dollar bill or a coin]

This is the most recognizable currency and the most universally accepted currency in all of the world. On this currency are four words that is the official motto of the most powerful nation in history. The words of course are - In God We Trust. It is interesting to know where this motto came from and how it came to be put on our currency. During the Civil War, Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase received a letter from a pastor in Pennsylvania named M. R. Watkinson. The letter simply stated,

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 so…