ABSTRACT
Working-class men and women, according to Haw, maintained a general faith in Christianity, and many embraced religious activities designed specifically for them. The great mass, however, remain either antagonistic to modern religious teaching or indifferent to it. There is no need to speculate about working-class opinion on religion. The thoughtful workman has learnt that officialism, institutionalism, and tradition have put a dead hand upon the Church as upon other organisations. In the Church as in the Army these things make for caste and snobbery and inefficiency. The Churches have ceased to speak the language of the people. Work-people view/ministers as men who are ecclesiastically minded, and the ecclesiastical mind work-people never have been able to understand. Among Free Churchmen, the institutional Church has been spoken of as a means of bringing back the people. The Church is almost always the friend of the landlord and employer.
