Hopeful and Hopeless.—Bishop J. W. Bashford, Methodist bishop in China, at the centennial banquet in Boston, stated that the movement in China to-day toward Christianity is nothing less than a revolution. More than one million copies of the Bible a year during the last three years have been sold in China. This is hopeful. What has led to this is the same old heathen idea of worshiping the strongest god. Europeans captured Pekin with only thirty thousand men, when one million men had failed to capture it in a war previous. So the Chinese said, "These white men have something that we have not, and we are going to get it." When they were spared after the city was taken, that also led them to admire the whites, and they concluded that their civilization rests upon their Book the Bible, so the declaration was issued that the Bible and the book of Confucius should be taught side by side all over China. One of the hopeless things growing out of it is the state religion, a thing that is bound to follow when religion is connected with government in any way. The bishop tells us, "By royal decree 437,000,000 people observe the Christian Sabbath. There has never been anything like it since Constantine adopted Christianity in Rome." And it is about after the same order as Constantine's Christianity. If ever a man was a curse to the Christian church, it was Constantine, and the so-called Christian Sunday which he foisted upon the church was "the wild solar holiday of all pagan times." Out of that grew the Dark Ages.