Christian. I am not a subscriber to any creed. I belong to no church. But in a sense, satisfactory to myself and believed by me to be important, I try to be a Christian, or rather I want to be a Christian and to help do Christian work." Hayes' wife, Lucy, was a Methodist, a temperance advocate, and deeply opposed to slavery; he generally attended church with her. James Garfield – Disciples of Christ He was baptized at age eighteen. Through his twenties, Garfield preached and held revival meetings, though he was never formally a minister within the church. Charles J. Guiteau attempted to assassinate Garfield at a sermon. Chester A. Arthur – Episcopalian His father was a Baptist preacher. Upon his wife's death in 1880, he commissioned a memorial window for the south transept of St. John's, Lafayette Square, visible from the White House and lighted from within at his behest. Grover Cleveland – Presbyterian Benjamin Harrison – Presbyterian Harrison became a church elder, and taught Sunday school. Grover Cleveland – Presbyterian William McKinley – Methodist Early in life, he planned to become a Methodist minister. James Rusling, a McKinley supporter, related a story that McKinley had addressed a church delegation and had stated that one of the objectives of the Spanish–American War was "to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them". Recent historians have judged this account unreliable, especially in light of implausible statements Rusling made about Lincoln's religion. McKinley is the only president to include exclusively Christian language in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation. Theodore Roosevelt – Dutch Reformed Roosevelt always stated that he was Dutch Reformed; however, he attended Episcopal churches where there was no Reformed church nearby. (His second wife Edith was Episcopalian from birth.) As there was no Dutch Reformed church in Oyster Bay, New York, he attended Christ Church Oyster Bay when in residence there, and it was in that church that his funeral was held. His mother was Presbyterian and as a child he attended Presbyterian churches with her. William Howard Taft – Unitarian Before becoming president, Taft was offered the presidency of Yale University, at that time affiliated with the Congregationalist Church; Taft turned the post down, saying, "I do not believe in the divinity of Christ." Taft's beliefs were the subject of some controversy, and in 1908 he found it necessary to refute a rumor that he was