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Such as Should be Saved
With a desire to serve the Lord, Salome, the daughter of Gebre-Ewostateos, became a Lutheran and sent her children to Sunday school. The small exposure to the Scriptures did not spare them the emptiness of heart that drives human beings to despair. \^ile very
young, her son Yohannes became an alcoholic; neither no ble birth nor wealth could restore his mind and health. Salome's daughter Sophia became a beauty queen,
made a prestigious marriage, and suffered from depres sion severe enough to make her consider suicide. During this time of mental torment that psychiatrists could not alleviate, she had a strange dream. She saw a woman with beautiful, long hair who spoke in a language that Sophia could not understand. An Ethiopian man in the dream interpreted her words: "Can you not see that this is the
true religion?"
Just before the Ethiopian Easter in 1968, a nephew
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