The Edict of Germany

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 30, 1877

The Edict of Germany.

In compliance with the edict of the German government expelling religious orders from the empire before October of the present year, many are immigrating to this country. August 14, among the passengers of the steamer Maas, of the Netherlands—American Steam Navigation Company, arriving at Pavonia dock, New Jersey, were twenty-two Sisters of Charity from Keetsfield, Prussia, of whom the Tablet says: “They felt, as many others who have come from Prussia before them have felt on account of this edict, that it is hard to be expatriated; still, their experience is no new thing in political differences. The sisters fully realized this point and were sensibly coming to a country not yet affected by the ailments of age, where they could think and do as they pleased. Some of them went over to Brooklyn, but most of them were whirled off to Cleveland and Covington, Ohio, where they will find anxious friends awaiting their arrival. During the next two months quite a large emigration of the same order is expected.”