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Moving On
as a flood on hungry hearts. In every service demons fled and miraculous healings occurred.
Seeing the throngs crowding Y ehdego's large home, the bishop of the Coptic church stirred his followers to angry action. Six thousand fanatics armed with gasoline, matches, and clubs came to the house with plans to burn alive the people inside. Warned by God, the believers jumped through the windows and ran out the doors. The mob attacked the fleeing believers with clubs and fists. Some jerked up fence posts with nails in them to use as weapons.
Most of the believers left their Bibles as they fled; however, the sight of an open Bible in Tekle's hand in furiated the men beyond measure. Several beat him with fence posts until blood gushed over the Bible and he fainted. Half scalped, with a flap of skin and hair hang ing by his right ear and covering his right eye, and with blood pouring from his head, he (still clutching his Bible) recovered enough to stagger away. An unknown army officer put him on a cart and pulled him to the hospital.
The bishop ordered the burning of Yehdego's house hold effects and the Bibles. While the flames leaped high, he yelled, "You who say 'Hallelujah' and 'Praise the name of Jesus,' I bind you by the power of the Holy Trinity on earth and in heaven. Your souls are condemned to hell!"
Tekle lay unconscious for a week while the saints fasted and prayed for him and for Yehdego, who was con fined in prison. Two weeks later Tekle resumed his ministry, and the authorities released his host from jail.
One week after the attack a demon came to torment the bishop. He blabbered incessantly, "Because you dealt atrociously with the people who say 'Hallelujah,' I am
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