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KNOW Zoo In the 1OTeSLS, anu Tile IloWlcVkc
stayed with him all his days. While in Office
he was on terms of friendship with Bishop
Matthew Simpson of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and with the Rev. DR.. Phineas D.
Gurley. Some controversy exists concerning
his orthodoxy but 1t is indisputable that the
author of the Gettysburg Address was be-
leving Christian.
Mrs Lincoln nee Mary Todd, while First
Lady attended divine service with the President
wherever he chose to go. When he was de-
tanned, she went to worship with her children
or friends.
Andrew Johnson has been listed Metho-
dist. Baptist and Presbyterian. He. himself.
said: AS for my religion, it is the doctrine OF
the Bible. as taught and practlced by Jesus
Christ" But he was a restless SOUL Try as
he would Chez could not get on workable terms
with the religion of the day. 1t seemed to
him that the preachers and pulpits were TO-
mentng strife and had substituted revenge and
hate for love and charity" While United
States Senator, while Vice President and while
President he went to service on occasion at
st. Patricks Cathedral the principal Roman
Catholic Church in the Capital. He always was
an ardent defender of the principle of tolerance,
and more than once risked his life to stand be-
fore a mob of fanatics, fired to fever heat by
sectional sectarian passion
Mrs johnson was a stanch Methodist. and
the President sometimes attended church with
her Born Eliza McCardle she was mountain
school teacher when she met her future hus-
band She helped to educate him. and fought
his battles though they were her own. In
poor health during most of the period OF her
residence in the White House. she was obliged
to leave her social duties to her daughter
Martha Mrs. d. T. Patterson.
Ulysses S. Grant was product OF Metho-
dist environment. His father was of Puritan
descent. a book lover and skilled debater; it
was said of him that he carried the Bible in
his heart His mother also was keen student
NJ thn N
of sanity temperament. Both parents were
active in the church. The teaching of the
boys home became the practice of his life.
Men who were with him at West Point later
testified to the purity of his speech and the
rectitude of his conduct. In the Army "he
gave every encouragement and facility for
securing a prompt and uniform observance of
religious services. and was generally found In
the audience listening to the preaching" He
had the chaplains say grace at mess
As President Grant and his family attended
the old Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Rev. j. P. Neuman was their pastor. He
subsequently became bishop. and Grant served
as a trustee of his church, the Metropolitan
Temple New York.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES was Presbyterian
~ by birth and breeding. His mother hoped
that ne might enter the ministry. As it hap
pened, he never joined the church. but all his
life he was "a man of firm convictions, whose
religious experiences shaped his entire career"
He attended Methodist school as a boy. Later
at Kenyon College and Harvard University he
frequented Episcopal service. HE had none of
the certainty that men felt in that age regard
ing religion, but he had the religious tempera-
ment" In reply to a question he once wrote:
II am not subscriber to any creed; belong
to no church. But in sense of satisfaction to
myself. and believed by me to be impor tant,
try to be Christian and help to do Christian
work" He was q campaigner for temperance
and participated in other social reform causes
As President he attended the old Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs Hayes. the former Lucy Ware Webb
united with the Methodist fellowship when but
a girl. She served as nurse during one phase
of the Civil War A prohibitionist, she ban
ished wine from the White House table, but
she was popular in Capital society. respected as
well as admired.
James A. Garfield was lay preacher Of
the Disciples Church when he became President
Born in q log cabin, he had worked for his
education. Graduated from Williams College
he had taught there, studied law. been admitted
to the bar. served in Congress, been a general
in the Union Army, and been President about
four months when disappointed o6ce-seeker
MORALLY wounded him in the waiting room of q
Washington railroad station He fingered 80
days before death relieved his sufferings Sep
tember 10. 1881. The shock Of his assassina-
ton was more intensely felt because Of popular
knowledge of the purity Of his life, the kindh-
ness of his heart and the generous hberality of
his mind. A thoroughly good man. he was an
active worker in his UNCONVENTIONAL religious
group from his youth. He long had been an
accredited minister of the Campbellite fellow
ship. MY commission" he said, comes from
within" While in Washington he worshiped
at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church
Mrs. Garfield was Lucretia Rudolph before
her marriage. She and the President were
classmates. Her stay in the White House was
brief, but she is remembered with kindness and