He was less than a year old when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and ten when his father James was murdered on the steps of a hotel in New York. His infant son died of smallpox and a few years later he lost his wife to cancer. Why did bad things happen to such good people?

The day after the Stock Market crash, his oldest son, found him near death, sitting on his living room chair. The windows were closed; a smell of gas in the house, and it appeared he had peacefully fallen asleep. The medics arrived, rushed him to the hospital and after reviving him, put him on suicide watch.

That's when Elmer met Mary Alice. She had been a victim of smallpox in her early twenties and thought she would never find the love of a man or have a family of her own due to the horrible scarring on her face. Unlike Elmer, however, she didn't feel like a victim. Instead she became a nurse and found peace in helping others. Her job now was to get him to share his history, his life with her, and help him go forward.

He was despicable toward her from the beginning, denied he had attempted suicide, and just wanted to be left alone. Could Mary reach this man who seemed so desperate, so lonely? Was she able to help him? Or was he left in her charge so she would help herself in some way?

In God We Trust is a true story that starts during the Civil War and ends in the 1940's. It gives a unique look at real people that survived the turmoil in our nation's infancy through the Depression and World Wars asking the universal question of where we are to put our trust.

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