But it could not tolerate unessentials, and so failed of becoming catholic.

The Jewish religion, until it had Christianity to help it, was never able to do more than make proselytes here and there.

Christianity, while preaching the doctrines of Jesus and the New Testament, has been able to carry also the weight of the Old Testament, and to give a certain catholicity to Judaism.

The religion of Mohammed has been catholic, in that it has become the religion of very different races,--the Arabs, Turks, and Persians, belonging to the three great varieties of the human family.

But then Mohammedanism has never sought to make _converts_, but only _subjects;_ it has not asked for belief, but merely for submission.