RETRIBUTION

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 5, 1878

Does it look like a measure of retribution that the bones of the late A. T. Stewart of New York should be dug up and carted about the country, as they now are, when it is remembered how he treated the remains of people buried in the churchyard, corner of Amity street and Wooster, when he transformed the church property into a stable for his horses? It appears that when people heard that Mr. Stewart had purchased the church property, and was going to turn it into a stable, they were very much shocked; but when they found that he was actually desecrating the graves, the indignation became so great that, in order to appease it Stewart promised to bury the bones; but, this not being satisfactory, he called upon the police, who dispersed the indignant crowds, and it is said had the bones dumped in with the material taken from the cellar in a general dump. His desecration of the many graves on Amity street seems to be the measure that is meted out to his own remains—a kind of judgment, as it were.—Boston Herald.