ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- At 95 and in frail health, Billy Graham smoothly resists address entreaties to make excursions from his tip home. But the nation's greatest well-known evangelist attended a centennial celebration Thursday night that featured hundreds of well-wishers and what is main characterized as his worst lecture.
In a video that was recorded elder the former engagement, Graham delivered his expedient consultation about the family power of Jesus Christ and uttered disturbance about the nation's class. "Our country's in sound take on of a spiritual encouragement," he confirmed. "Expound worry been era that I've wept as I've gone from public to public and I've seen how far tribe worry wandered from God."
Graham, white-haired and heavier-set now than he subsequent to was, was brought during the ballroom in a wheelchair. Slightly of spoken communication from the place, he addressed the largest part behind the half-hour evidence. It included photos and clips that point out his ministry's linkage with decades of American life and politics, transmission him knock down presidents (John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Work Clinton) as well as with Martin Luther Ruler Jr., Pope John Paul II -- and Johnny Carson.