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1682, responding to William Penn’s (a Quaker) ‘Holy Experiment,’ Quakers, Scotch-Irish
Presbyterians, Mennonites, and other pietists from Germany settled in Pennsylvania. Although
Maryland was founded in 1634 as a Catholic colony, it was soon overwhelmed with Protestants,
who dominated religion in America until the Civil War.
The World Council of Churches
In 1910, J. R. Mott, a 45-year old American Methodist minister, chaired the World Congress
in Edinburgh to foster inter-church relations and to eliminate overlapping by spreading out their
manpower in the missionary field. Out of that, came the Universal Christian Council of Life and
Work, at Stockholm, Sweden in 1925; and the World Conference of Faith and Order, at
Lausanne in 1927. Eventually, it developed into the World Council of Churches (WCC) at
Amsterdam (the Netherlands) on August 23, 1948, when representatives from 147 churches in 44
countries met. The banner over the stage said: “One World-One Church.”
Six co-Presidents were appointed to run the organization, including an American, G.
Bromley Oxham, who was a 33rd degree Mason, and Vice-President of a communist-front
organization known as the Methodist Federation for Social Action. In the 1945 book Labor and
Tomorrow’s World, he wrote: “The workers of Russia speak. They say that the American
demand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can never be realized until it is
complemented by the universal obligation to work in a society in which the means of production
are owned by the people, and the fruits of the production go to the people...”
Another co-President, T. C. Chao, was the Dean of Yenching University’s School of
Religion in Peiping (known as the ‘Harvard of China,’ which was partially funded by the
Rockefellers). When the Communists were taking over China, Chao and his students welcomed
their actions, and he was later given an official position in the Red Chinese government. Josef L.
Hromadka, from Prague (Czechoslovakia), a founding member of the WCC’s Central
Committee, was a Communist Party member, and said in a January, 1959 speech: “Communism
is no embodiment of evil, no ‘murder of souls’ as some people in the West believe. It is our task
to demonstrate that this view is mistaken. Communism has grown out of the humanitarian efforts
of many philosophers and poets who desired to create a more just and happy human society.”
According to its members, the WCC is a “fellowship of churches which confess the Lord
Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together
their common calling to the glory of the One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” However, the
facts seem to point to a much different agenda. The Founding Assembly of the WCC, at their
first meeting in 1948, approved and sent to its member churches, a report called, The Church and
the Disorder of Society, which said:
“The Christian Church should reject the ideologies of both communism and capitalism ...
Communism ideology ... promise that freedom will come automatically after the
completion of the revolution. Capitalism puts the emphasis on freedom and promises that
justice will follow as a by-product of free enterprise. That, too, is an ideology which has
been proven false ... It is the responsibility of Christians to seek new creative solutions
which never allow either justice or freedom to destroy the other.”
In 1952, Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, Director of the Commission of the Churches on