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lunch, and all three shared the evening meal. By the end of the year, with God's blessing and in spite of the skim py meals, none of them had lost weight or suffered from malnutrition.
Tekle preached the saving power of Jesus, the bap tism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, divine healing and deliverance. He deter mined to reach every person in the city regardless of posi tion or rank. Many fornid it difticult to believe that he would work so hard without support. The more suspicious ones alerted friends in the bank and in the post office to let them know if he received funds from unknown sources. The realization that he lived strictly by faith opened many hearts and doors. The last six months of his year in Mekele, Tekle saw numbers healed and filled with the Holy Ghost.
A man of Ethiopian-Italian descent worked as a mechanic in a sugar factory at Wonji. One night he saw something open his bedroom door. He cried out in ter ror, "Who are you?" Instantly the apparition turned in to a white cat and disappeared. Several times during the night the cat returned to claw him on the arm, always vanishing as he tried to hit it. Deep, angry scratches proved that the experience was more than just a nightmare.
When seven months in the hospital failed to cure his excruciating headaches and dispel his torment, the man was committed to an insane asylum. He escaped to haunt taverns, drinking heavily.He coulddisappear without pay ing the bill as neatly as the white cat that tortured him.
The demon in him would often cause the man to run at unbelievable speeds for long distances. Eyewitnesses
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