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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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Rer'chiitch hote seers, ch will. be.
For the first time since the August, said “Joseph,
t. 15 both Blast that shat. 8h. chairman of the doard of |
part of the sanctuaty trustees. Enough of the repah
Sunday 'Schoot rooms and Work has been completed t
four little girls, the con- hold services in the church,
tion worshiped in their | from now on, he said.
nit church. On Sept. 15, Parrish had
Barah Collins, whose sister, ‘stood at the hospital emer-
Pie hae, died in the blast, SCY Toom unmindful of his
Bs amiong the several hun- 6Wn head wound, to help still-
ted who marched into the siunned members of the con-
in quiet procession. sregation.
Fah. herself spent months at He was with Mrs. Clevon
Rai Hospital Suwrser: Phillips, Sunday school teach-
ne fonaht to sa
—2r who had taught a lesson on
{love minutes before the blast,
‘sight from the Stfocts of Deacon B. H. Wilson Sr., and ‘
ntered glass. Mrs. Mamie H. Greer, Sunday
laude Wesley sang too. schoo! superintendent.
Epeside him was Shirley, who “We were happy to be go-
been taken into the home ing in,” said Parrish yester-
and Mrs, Wesley to fill day, “but it was the kind of
fe’ “of the Joneliness that happiness that was close to 1
Ween there since ‘their tears. There was a sadness
Geuetter, Cynthia Diane, was in it even as we sung.”
fled in the blast. Wilson was in the congrega-
“Her mother has been kind tion yester as was Mrs.
nigh to let her live with us Greer and Mrs. Phillips.
and we'll see about adoption,” Rev. Cross assembled the
said Wesley. congregation yesterday in a
A deacon in the church, Wes- inewamtheesidewalk_ outside.
ley is principal of Lewis Ele- Slowly worshipers Fe The
mentary School steps_apd into the church.
2 "The church looks very dif outtect persons~wers—bep-
ferent. The woot paneling is tised earlier in the day, two
uch lighter,” said Wesh for other churches and 12 as
fit looked like a different, BeW members of Sixteenth
phere inside That helped me ' Street Church.
go back.” Sunday school services ‘for
“Mrs, Alvin Robertson. moth. childven were held in the
er of Carol. who lost her life basement where the tragedy
at Sunday schoo! last Septem. occurred. Two church work-
‘ber, Was in the hospital and €tS, Miss Mabel Bibb and Mrs.
‘unable to attend Rosetta Young, were in the
‘y Mr. and Mrs. Chis McNair basement when the bomb ex-
Shave an illness in their fam- Ploded. They were back at
their desks yesterday.
A white clergyman, Dr.
©. Hester, secretary of the
By, too.
*. Their only child. Denise, was
killed in the explosion that
‘took the lives of Addie Mae,
Carol, and Cynthia. They are
xpecting another child later
this year.
i the bomb blast,. mem-
of Sixteenth Street Bap-
tist Church have held Sunday
services in L. R. Hal) Audi-
torium of AG.
ing
Department of Missions, Ala-
bama Baptist State Conven-
tion, was guest speaker at the
service. A Baptist Mission
Center, now moved to larger
quarters in Ensley, long occu-
jed—qearters ab—~Sintéenth’
Street Church.
i
Gastow.Ruild-
“boi bing. The Rev. Cross ‘said
a new Bible had been donated,
to the church. et Bh
“This Bible,” he sai
given us in recognition, "of “the
‘tragedy that happened here”;
_ Atapother poing_be admoa-
ished the Congregation “not to
Toos-back in reven;
but with love in our hearts:
More than $200,000 has been
sent to the church from all
parts of the world. Pai
said some of the money jas
earmarked for survivors of the
children killed. Some ‘has:
been used to repair and re-
model the church. And Some
has been put into'an educa>
tional scholarship fund to be
administered by a special
church committee.
A blind soloist, Miss Eleanor
Smith of Atlanta, sang yester-
y “His Eye Is on the Spar-
row.” In this hymn, there is
the line, “I sing because T am
happy, I sing because I'm
free.” es
“Yoo—fes®” softly murs
mured the congregation.
(indicate page, name of
newspaper, cfty and state.)
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