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Billy Graham: Dean of Evangelists |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 968 Words, 5,810 Characters |
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Of the Parkinson's disease that has palsied him since 1992, the 80-year-old Graham says, "There's a reason for it that's good for me, and good for the Kingdom of God, and good for the people I'm ministering to, and good for my family."
Another remakable detail about Graham, who has become virtually a symbol for religion in most of America and around the world, is the way he ennobles his wife, Ruth, characterizing her as a divine blessing upon him that had been planned in heaven decades before they met.
"I believe [my wife] was chosen by God for me when she was born," Graham says. His answers to The World & I's questions were provided by his staff through research in the Graham archives. The evangelist himself, ...
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...er plans for the human race," he says. "No, we are not going to have Armageddon until God's time comes. And there is plenty of time for us to straighten things out to an extent that it could be put off.
"My hope is ... based on God, and, in addition, as a Christian I know that if I died right now I would go into the presence of God to live forever in eternity with Him. So I am an optimist."
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