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Unseen Hands
Soon after his arrival, Brother Harris experienced the pleasure of down-to-earth missionary endeavor. He met the "African bug" (dysentery) on his first trip to Kam- bata. Only Tekle's earnest prayer through the night helped him to survive.
He stayed in a smoke-filled house at Fiche that did not have a chimney; he wept while preaching for two hours and suffered from a lack of water; he slept on a
flea-infested skin; and his slumber was disturbed by the cold nose of a cow next to him in the sleeping order.
Brother Wendell showed Brother Harris the site at Metahara, 150 kilometers north of Addis, that had been granted to the church for a Bible school by the minister of education, who was Sophia's husband. Brother Free
man also saw the land. When the missionaries dug a well for water, the district governor heard that the Pente- costals planned to build in his district; he had the grant cancelled. Brother Wendell could not convince him or any government officials whom he petitioned that he was not
a part of the hated, fanatical group known as Pente costal.
During this confusion, Erkenesh's second child ar rived on October 8, 1971. Brother Wendell named the baby Mousse, which means Moses.
For several months the Lord dealt with Erkenesh about things to come. As the Lord showed her what would happen step by step, she wrote it all in a school note book—the revolution, the overthrow of the emperor, the
fate of many politicians, the suffering, the new rulers of the country, and the sweeping changes that would come. While Tekle ministered in Addis during January 1972, officers arrested Erkenesh as she stood in the pulpit
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