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ili.Tt- wa- ii" ! .-.-oiiiiij,' with them. The moment 

 there was a lnnl .showing for business, tho pro- 

 prietors Ii>st the symiathy of the men. The 

 latin- would nut permit ;i reduction of wajjes. 

 ami the\ e\cn declared that they preferred to 

 o back to the old method df employment in 

 which they had no share of the pronts. 



To genera liy.e from all these facts, it appears 

 that the ijreat army of the employed desire fixed 

 in some shape as a basis upon which profit- 

 sharing may be built afterward ; and that the 

 employers who make profit-sharing a success are 

 those who succeeded as small employers a 

 generation ago, before the advent of the great 

 corporations. Co-operation as known in its old 

 form, though proved fairly applicable to distri- 

 bution, has usually failed when applied to pro- 

 duct ion. In profit-sharing, the element of weak- 

 ness which was fatal to co-operation the im- 

 possibility of finding men of sufficient ability to 

 manage great producing operations on the terms 

 which co-operation offered is successfully met 

 by a limited and carefully adjusted proportion- 

 ate interest of the workmen in the business of 

 their employer, with just so much voice in the 

 management of affairs as their interest entitles 

 them to, and no more. A most valuable work 

 upon profit-sharing has recently been published 

 by Nicholas Paine Gilman. Mr. Gilman believes 

 that the time has come to identify more com- 

 pletely the interests of the wage-earner and the 

 wage-payer, and that, so far as change of meth- 

 od can go, profit-sharing has greater promise 

 of good than anything else that has been sug- 

 gested. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

 IN THE UNITED STATES. The year 1892, 

 1'eiii,!; that of the meeting of the General Con- 

 vention, was full of interest and importance for 

 Episcopalians. During the last three years efforts 

 have been continued in order to bring about a 

 sat isfactory reunion among Protestant Christians. 

 and the proposal made by this Church has been 

 much discussed on the part of the chief denomi- 

 nat ions in the United States. As was pointed out 

 three years ago, the question as to the " historic 

 episcopate." and in how far that is necessary to 

 constitute and perpetuate a valid ministry, after 

 the pattern of the early Church, is the crucial 

 question. Until this is agreed upon and decided, 

 tnere appears to be little ground for hope of ac- 

 complishing an actual, working reunion. The 

 matter remains in much the same condition in 

 which it has been during past years. Between 

 1889 and 1892 there has been time for a fair and 

 much needed trial of the proposed changes in the 

 Book of Common Prayer. The convention of the 

 Church, held in Baltimore, in October, 1892, as 

 \pressly required, gave the whole subject 

 most careful consideration, and the revised and 

 amended I'myr Hook was finally adopted and 

 published. The Hymnal of the Church, not 

 beim: quite satisfactory, had been placed in the 

 hands of a commission of experts, in 1889, for 

 further enlargement and enrichment. Thiscom- 

 misMon reported in favor of adopting the Hym- 

 nal submitted by them: but, owing to some 

 dissatisfaction in" the Church in regard to the 

 omission of a considerable number of old fa- 

 vorites in the existing Hymnal, the matter was 

 not definitely settled by this convention. It 

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was ordered that the present book be continued 

 U authorized for use until further action be had 

 in the premises. The sources of information in 

 preparing this article aru the .Journal of the 

 General Convention of 1892, Pott's "Church 

 Almanac," and Whittaker's "Protestant 

 copal Almanac.'' TJie following table prevent -; 

 a summary of statistics of Churcn progress from 

 1889 to 1892 : 



PROGRESS BY DIOTI 



