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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

 

"In God We Trust" is a national motto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto> of 
the United States of America<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>. It 
was so designated by an act of 
Congress<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress> in 
1956<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956>, but did not supersede "E Pluribus 
Unum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum>".

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum

 

E pluribus unum is a national 
motto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_motto> of the United States of 
America<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>. Translated from 
Latin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin>, it means "From many, one" or "Out 
of many, one." It referred to the integration of the 13 independent 
colonies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_colonies> into one united country, 
and has taken on an additional meaning, given the pluralistic nature of 
American society from immigration. The motto was selected by the first Great 
Seal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States> committee 
in 1776<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776>, at the beginning of the American 
Revolution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution>. Pierre Eugene 
DuSimitiere<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Eugene_DuSimitiere> 
originally suggested E pluribus unum as motto. In 
1956<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956>, In God We 
Trust<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust> was added as another 
national motto.

 

http://www.hooverdigest.org/002/novak.html<http://www.hooverdigest.org/002/novak.html>



Thus it happened that the first act of Congress on September 7, 1774, was an 
official prayer, pronounced by an Episcopalian clergyman dressed in his 
pontificals. And what did he read? He read a 

Jewish prayer, 

Psalm 35 in The Book of Common Prayer:  Plead my cause, O Lord, with them 
that strive with me. Fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of 
buckler and shield, and rise up for my help. Say to my soul, "I am your 
salvation." Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life. Let those 
be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.