But though it includes a variety of nationalities, it is doubtful if it includes any variety of races.

All the Buddhists appear to belong to the great Mongol family.

And although this system originated among the Aryan race in India, it has let go its hold of that family and transferred itself wholly to the Mongols.
But Christianity, from the first, showed itself capable of taking possession of the convictions of the most different races of mankind.

Now, as on the day of Pentecost, many races hear the apostles speak in their own tongues, in which they were born,--Parthians, Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judaea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, strangers of Rome, Cretes and Arabians.

The miracle of tongues was a type of the effect of the truth in penetrating the mind and heart of different nationalities.
The Jewish Christians, indeed, tried to repeat in Christianity their old mistake which had prevented Judaism from becoming universal.