Here are excerpts from the Rev. Billy Graham's sermon in Cincinnati Thursday night:

        “I was reading about some of the famous people that came from Cincinnati. I didn't know that Orville and Wilbur Wright came from (southwest Ohio.) I thought they came from North Carolina. And Ezzard Charles, I used to watch him box. He was fast. And Roy Rogers came from here. His birthplace is near here someplace, I think under the baseball stadium.”

        “One of the things I have learned (about) since I've been here — the pigs. I couldn't believe it, so I went out to Sawyer Point twice and looked at those (flying) pigs. They said there were two, I counted four. Maybe there's something wrong with my eyesight because I had an operation on my eyes two weeks ago, but I counted four.

        “I'm so glad to see so many people, my goodness. I didn't expect this many even if it hadn't rained.”

        “I was born in a Christian home but that doesn't make me a Christian. I could be born in a garage but that doesn't make me an automobile.”

        “We inherit from our parents the fact that we are sinners. We are prone to sin. And we are born in sin, the Scripture says. And then not only are we born in sin, but when we reach the age of accountability, we deliberately sin.”

        “I'm asking you to come tonight publicly and say I want Jesus in my heart.”

        “The devil is lose in our world today. All we have to do is turn on the news and item after item is fraud, murder, war, everything that you can think of.”

        “We're all under the penalty of death. We're all on death row. The only way out of death row is Jesus.”

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