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The Shocking Discovery
“They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord
the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.”
(2 Chron. 15:12)
It wasn’t until the mysterious death of a Prussian officer in Amsterdam that the secret got out. Abraham von Rumswinkel had been a professional soldier stationed in Holland, but, upon his death in 1737, those searching his belongings discovered an extraordinary secret—strange symbols and documents: a golden ring with an inscription in Greek and a list of rules written in formal German.
High Society
Slowly it emerged that this ordinary Prussian officer had, in fact, been a member of an extraordinary secret Order reaching to the very highest echelons of society, right across Europe and even into the New World of America. It was hard to believe, but other members of this mysterious Order included the king of Denmark, the
 Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, the secretary of state for Scotland, a military general and governor of the colony of Georgia, and even an eighty-seven-year-old Indian chief Tomo-chi-chi (left). The leader of the group was a well-known German aristocrat with a reputation as a religious zealot—a man in his thirties by the name of Count Nicklaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf of Saxony. The existence of The Honourable Order of the Mustard Seed had finally come to light.
The rumors spread like wildfire as the statutes of this secret society fell at first into hostile hands. A Professor Voget of Utrecht attempted to use them to discredit the Moravian missions movement expanding so rapidly under Zinzendorf’s patronage. And so, reluctantly, in 1740, the Count went public with the Rules, the relationships, and the history of his Knightly Order. The truth that emerged was not sinister, but it was truly extraordinary; some of the most powerful people in contemporary society had banded together in a solemn covenant not for self preferment, but rather to live selflessly for Jesus Christ! |
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