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in Spoce Below) © 4Birmingham and the tion grieved today at biers of three Negro dren, victims of a chu ‘bombing which shocked t ; world. , Their funerals were held ‘at’ the Sixth Avenue Bap! fturch, South. Services for “old Carole Rosamond a, the fourth girl to die Say, , were held Tuesday bef persons, including about. at St. John's AME. Chi “National Negro leaders, i ding NAACP Executive Sec oy Wilkins, came here for 1. Rev. Jeky H. Cross, Bombed: Sixteenth Si Baptist Church. spoke at the funeral of the Robertson child? “HE SAID THE church bomber | PGId ns orily bomb the Sixteenth ' Street Baptist Church, did not © Words of the Apostle Paul were as the text of Cardle's \pulogy. 1S “Al things work together for Boni to them. that love the i Lord,” began the Rev. Cross. | .“Accept these words,” Cross hold Carole’s family, seated in pews just to the right of the | pulpit. Carole'’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. pea Robertson, sat on the front the was their third child. «Accept them by faith.” said (Cross. “Remember our lives are jSubmerged in the will of God.” es “WHEN THESE atrocious acts vere committed, they were com- it ed against all freedorn-loying e World over; 170 mil- ee how, we . have been ht together as we _haye yonly kill ‘ovely. innocent: | girls, bur the whole World was shaken People every; re died.” nt together be “Regardless of our ethnic Iutes. our creations, our seciat lines, we have been brought t0- gether, nat as Negro or white. not as Protestant nr Catholic but_as childeen ef God throush out the world.” Cross compared with the Crucifixion die in vain, he said the murders. Jesus dicin’t IS “Somehow,” the mi "said. “we can identify this situation as an ordi e of suf. but a suffering idemifed with a cause.” SAID ¢ the cause of Scripture was read by ¢ have heir deaths Hobart E. Oren Jv.. assis tor at 16th Street Baptist. He read Carole was past secgelary of the 23ri Psaim from the Olé Jack“and Jill and treasurer of Testament. and from the New: Scout Troop 208 at Parker High Testament, Christ's wortls’ “Sui school, She was also secretary fer the little children to come af her lass. eet Gaohie ihe Chery! Met els the Kiesdom of Floye, Linda Gelard and «1 Laura Poole — read an excerpi The Rey, C. E. Thomas, pas- from the poem. “And Ye Shall for at St. John. repeated stanzas ‘Find Me" and sang “I Heard a af the hymn, “Where Cross the Forest Prayi Crowded Ways of Lite Before the irip to the cemetery, the Rev Thomas made “an obser- HAN “expression” Martin Lathes Kia vation uted, but a 0) +} CALL CPON you in the fn achedule™ ed nate of the ministers in Bieming? mee The Rev red hare. and ort then: a thi th spoke in his place. nt keep cool saciets at which we “Read Psalms 41 U i e hs Read them. Read then walk, the homes in which we Lye, and reread them, or the House of God," he said. them. “Words will nevther dre the, "To the younz penple tears nor stil! the pain stead of getting a battle. nother and dadkly’s hand and take SHUTTLESWORTH said, “dark-!them to the ballet box. If ness will not last forever. Gris you are no Bet- will not prevail, You. hy your suf-lter than the Klan or any other fering, have paid another instal!- hate group. Violence will never ent in this great thing called Win. edo.” “The greatest tribute you can pay to Carole is to be calm, be lovely, be kind, be innocent.” The child was buried at Shadow avn Cemetery. eet Four little girls rose from the section reserved for classmates, Girl Scouts and a youth organi- ration, Jack and Jil, ,, fo ATHE BIRMINGHAM N THE BIRMINGHAM POS T-HERALL BLKMINGHAM, ALABAMA 9/18/63 n RED STAR FINAL JOHN W. BLOOMER BAPBOMB BH BL OH GUS