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“IN COD WE TRUST”
The Rev. M. R. Watkinson was troubled. In his small parish at Ridleyville, Penn., he brooded over the low ebb of the nation's fortunes. One cheerless November day in 1861 he sat down at the antique desk in his rectory and wrote a letter of singular eloquence to the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase.
“One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked," he wrote. “I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins."
Secretary of the Treasu^jr Chase, in whose honor the Chase National Bank later was named, and who also was Chief Justice of the United States, read this letter from the Rev. Mr. Watkinson and promptly recognized the merit of his plea. Within a week he had dispatched a note to the Director of the Mint in Philadelphia, James
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