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Article: Graham's 'last' sermon given in New Orleans.(Billy Graham)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- April 4, 2006
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Evangelist Billy Graham seems to have closed out his 60-year career as the country's most famous evangelist. After calling thousands to faith decisions at a brief appearance in wounded New Orleans last month, he acknowledged that "this is probably the last evangelistic sermon I'll ever preach."
Frail and tentative, the 87-year-old Graham shuffled behind a walker toward the pulpit set at one end of the New Orleans Arena on March 12 as a crowd his organization estimated at 16,300 stood to give a sustained roar of applause.
His son and ministry heir, Franklin Graham, gently assisted him into place as flash bulbs sent pulsating light through the arena. ...