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In the Furnace
seventy-five people, lay unconscious. While the attackers waited for trucks to take the people to the health center, they vented their anger on everything that they couldfind. They broke or burned benches, tracts. Bibles, and Tekle's household effects and splintered the doors and windows of the building.
Neighbors carried Ernenesh to their home, and when she regained consciousness the next morning, she found Mousse in great pain from his injuries. Hailu's wife had shielded Mehret in her arms and had suffered only one blow on the side of her head. Mehret was not harmed.
When the trucks arrived, the attackers pitched the injured people into them, using as much care as would be given to cord wood. Touched by the Spirit of God, on arriving at the clinic the wounded climbed from the trucks and joyfully returned home. Miraculously, all the other children escaped injury.
Tekle had planned to return home on March 22, and hetoldhishostess, Salome,good-bye.Onthewaytocatch the bus, an invisible band fastened around his feet and held him.
"Salome, do you see chains or something holding me?" he asked. Neither of them could see anything. When he decided to visit other believers and wait until the next day to go home, his feet moved freely. For five days the strange pattern repeated in the same way. If he thought to go witness or encourage someone, his feet would move, but when he said, "I am going home," the powerholding his feet returned.
On the third day Tekle asked an evangelistto fast and pray with him about the mystery of his feet taking odd spells of refusing to move. On the evening of the sixth
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