Article: REV. JERRY FALWELL: EVANGELIST DEAD AT 73 HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF MORAL MAJORITY.(News)

Byline: Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Spiritually, the Rev. Jerry Falwell seemed prepared for his passing.

A little more than two weeks ago, the founder of the Moral Majority preached of man being indestructible until he has finished God's work, then told churchgoers he was at peace with death.

On the day before he died, Falwell called his son and asked him to take a drive up the mountain that overlooks Liberty University, where he posed for pictures near a new, massive "LU" logo with students from the school he built.

"He said he was feeling better than he'd felt in awhile," Jerry Falwell Jr. said. "He'd been ...

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