Family Theater: The Future Is Yours

The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents The Future is Yours, starring Rosemary DeCant and Bobby Driscoll. Don McNeil is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Here is your host Don McNeil. Most stories have a romantic turn. You know the boy meets the girl. They fall in love. married and live happily ever after.

But what really happened? Well, the boy met the girl all right, and she thought he was the most handsome, the most wonderful person in the world. And he thought that she was the most beautiful, the most exquisite girl in the world.

So they were married. And they were happy. Very happy. But one day he comes home from work, and she's in the kitchen crying over the burnt potatoes and pudding. When she looks neither exquisite nor beautiful, and he feels tired and annoyed, one word follows another and both are disillusioned and discouraged.

Because her expectations of one another are not being fulfilled. She is no longer exquisite, and he is no longer wonderful. Neither is what the other had imagined. Yes, homes can be and are unhappy because they are built on false hopes.

And that's why every home needs the peace and understanding that comes with family prayer, the influence and guidance that comes with God's help in a family. That's why millions of families are making family prayer a daily practice.

We'll hear from Don McNeil again following tonight's Family Theatre Play, the future is yours, starring Rosemary DeCamp and Bobby Driscoll. I suppose you'd call me an average American mother.

I like to think of myself as up to date. I kept in touch with some of the latest styles when we could afford it, did a little reading once in a while, and thought that the easiest thing in the world was to bring up our children on the simple principle that right is right and wrong is wrong.