 We must always trust in God. This is Matt Staver with Freedom's Call. In 1861, the United States was in the midst of the Civil War, pitting the North against the South. There were 620,000 deaths, and people needed hope and reassurance God was still with them. The Secretary of the Treasury received petitions from people who wanted to put God's name on the nation's currency. Congress approved it, and the first display of In God We Trust was on the two-cent coin in 1864.