Family Theater: Life's a Circus

The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Life's a Circus, starring Margaret O'Brien and Pat O'Brien. Fred Allen is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams are.

I'll hear as your Family Theater host for tonight, Fred Allen. You often hear about people getting up petitions. Petitions to stop one thing or do away with something else. I remember someone once wanted me to sign a petition to do away with radio comedians.

Well, that's how it goes. So now I have a petition, but I don't want to do away with anything. I want to bring something back, something that should be in every home. Prayer, family prayer.

That traditional custom of home life, the custom of gathering our family together to thank God for His blessings and to ask His help. I believe in family prayer because I know that in a home where mother and father gather together with their children and sincerely and humbly ask God's blessing on their family,

everyone finds a new source of help. There's a new encouragement for all in a family's united expression of faith in God. It would be a sad and sorry world indeed if we lost faith in God and faith in one another. It's a sad and sorry home where these things are lost. That's my petition, a petition for faith and family prayer in our homes.

Fred Allen will return following tonight's family theater presentation, Life's a Circus, starring Pat O'Brien and Margaret O'Brien. Hey step right, this way falls to the great show on Earth. Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry.

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