Page 28 - Unseen Hands by Nona Freeman

Unseen Hands
come upon me! Holy Spirit, come!"
He thought it would be like an electrical shock
transmitted by their hands. After seven futile attempts he thought, "Oh, the hands of the laymen will not work. Let me go to a missionary. It will come through her."
He asked an elderly missionary, Mrs. Helvy, to lay her hands on his head while he pressed down as hard as he could. Nothing happened. Running from the church in anguish, he counted himself the chief of sinners and feared that God would strike him dead with a thunder bolt for daring to enter the presence of holy people.
He bought a hundred-page notebook and recorded all of the sins from Genesis to Revelation. He purposed to go naked and barefoot from church to church, to all monasteries, to mosques and city squares to confess all the sins that he had written, even those he had not
committed.
Missionary Stocks saw him writing and questioned him. When Tekle told him what he planned to do, he took the book out ofhis hands and read it, for he understood Amharic. "Come home with me, Tekle," he said.
At his residence, Mr. Stocks took a match and burned the notebook. "The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ has burned your sins on His cross as I am burning this book," he explained.
Though very upset, Tekle did not want to add the sin of insulting a missionary to his other wrong deeds. He left Missionary Stocks' home immediately; however, when he tried to list the sins again, he found it impossible to
do so.
His intense desire to have the Holy Ghost compelled
him to think of something else that might help. I'll go to 26