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Unseen Hands
are you running? Why are you weeping?" I will not know how to answer. Perhaps I should stop running and walk. His feet refused to cooperate with his mental decision, however. More than five kilometers from where the word came to run, he entered the church with a desire to kneel. He thought he must have knelt on an electric wire; before his secondkneetouchedthe floor, the Holy Ghost fell on him as a mighty waterfall of glory. In an ecstasy of joy hefelt thepower ofGod lifthim intoheavenly places. With uplifted arms he spoke in other tongues for five hours.
When the irrepressible flow of the Spirit abated, he still could speak only in tongues. He spent the next
twenty-four hours trying to communicate by sign lan guage. His relatives considered taking him to a mental hospital; he could not make them understand that he felt weak and desperately hungry. When his mother tongue— Tigrinya—returned, he talked constantly, hoping this would assure him of not losing the ability to speak it again.
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