The artisan class, on the other hand, is notoriously falling away from the accredited anthropomorphic creeds and from all devout observances.

This class is in an especial degree exposed to the characteristic intellectual and spiritual stress of modern organized industry, which requires a constant recognition of the undisguised phenomena of impersonal, matter-of-fact sequence and an unreserved conformity to the law of cause and effect.
This class is at the same time not underfed nor over-worked to such an extent as to leave no margin of energy for the work of adaptation.
The case of the lower or doubtful leisure class in America--the middle class commonly so called--is somewhat peculiar.

It differs in respect of its devotional life from its European counterpart, but it differs in degree and method rather than in substance.

The churches still have the pecuniary support of this class; although the creeds to which the class adheres with the greatest facility are relatively poor in anthropomorphic content.

At the same time the effective middle-class congregation tends, in many cases, more or less remotely perhaps, to become a congregation of women and minors.