For Museum's Opening, Former Presidents, a Talking Cow, and Gobs of Graham
"He doesn't want attention to go to him. And yet it just does."
Ken Garfield, Religion News Service
posted 5/23/2007

Consider it Billy Graham's last crusade, one that will draw the faithful long after America's most famous religious figure is gone.

On a wooded site in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina — just off Billy Graham Parkway, no less — the Billy Graham Library will be dedicated May 31 at a private ceremony expected to feature former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Former President Jimmy Carter also is likely to attend.

The ex-presidents are likely to be upstaged, though, by the guest of honor. The 88-year-old evangelist is scheduled to come down from his mountain home in Montreat, N.C., for a rare public appearance to address the crowd of 1,500 invited guests and assorted national media.

If his fragile health allows him to make the trip — he can barely hear or walk and his vision is poor — Graham's message will echo the one his ministry hopes visitors take from the library: The glory should go to God rather than the lanky farm boy who preached the gospel to hundreds of millions of people around the world. the rest