C.H. Spurgeon – Words of Warning for Daily Living

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March 31

All other nations were tolerant the one to the other, but the Jew could not be so. One
part of his religion was, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one God;" and as the
consequence of his belief that there was but one God, and that that one God was
Jehovah, he felt it his bounden duty to call all pretended gods by nicknames, to spit
upon them, to treat them with contumely and contempt. Now the Christian religion,
you observe, is just as intolerant as this. If you .apply to a Brahmin to know the way
of salvation, he will very likely tell you at once, that all persons who follow out their
sincere religious convictions will undoubtedly be saved. "Here," says he, "are the
Mohammedans; if they obey Mohammed, and sincerely believe what he has taught,
without doubt, Alla will glorify them at last." And the Brahmin turns round upon the
Christian missionary, and says, "What is the use of your bringing your Christianity
here to disturb us? I tell you our religion is quite capable of carrying us to heaven, if
we are faithful to it." Now just hear how intolerant is the Christian religion: — "Neither
is there salvation in any other." The Brahmin may admit that there is salvation in fifty
religions besides his own; but we admit no such thing. There is no true salvation out
of Jesus Christ. The gods of the heathens may approach us with their mock charity,
and tell us that every man may follow out his own conscientious conviction and be
saved. We reply: — No such thing: there is no salvation in any other; "for there is
none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."