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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · February 11, 1868

In its column of “Foreign Facts,” the N. Y. Independent prints the following item:

A monastery of the Cistercian Order has been commenced at Dubuque, Iowa, to comprise four large buildings of cut stone, costing $200,000. We place this item among our foreign facts, for certainly nothing could possibly be more foreign to our institutions, and to the very spirit of Americanism, than a body of Cistercian monks. We talk about the monkish ages as things of the remote periods of history, while monkish institutions are springing up all around us.