Most church, sport, and public events sing only the first verse of this hymn, our National Anthem. Unwittingly these are hiding the history and fitting into compliance with the anti-God elements in our society which threaten to remove “In God We Trust” from our motto and currency. How this would change when these church, sport, and public events include these last, beautiful words:
O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when the cause it is just;
And this be our motto, “In God is our trust!”
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!