Family Theater: Home for Thanksgiving

The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Home for Thanksgiving, starring Paul Henry and John Leslie. Charles Boye is your host. More things are wrought by prayer on these world dreams, huh?

Across the country tonight, in millions of hearts and homes, there is a spirit of happiness and thanksgiving. It is more than thanks for Turkey dinners, more than our happiness in the reunion of family and friends.

It is a renewal of our faith and trust in God, for thanksgiving days meaningless without our prayers of thanks to Him whose goodness comes to us each day. We are thankful for the gifts we have in material things in a world where there is hunger and privation.

We are thankful for our freedom to life, liberty and happiness in a world where there is hatred and oppression. Thankful for our spiritual treasures of faith in God and the brotherhood of men. Thankful for our homes, where in peace we can gather together as a family to pray.

This is the spirit of thanksgiving and prayers go up from millions of homes where families gather together tonight to offer this simple prayer. Thanks be to God. Charles Boye will return later in the program.

Now tonight's family theater stars Joan Leslie and Paul Henry in True Boardman's Home for Thanksgiving. Time this day. The place, a town in Austria, not far from the German border. The people, Stefan Brannick and Mary his wife.

Here then is home for Thanksgiving. Mary? Yes, Stefan? You went out of sleep? No, I was waiting for you. I finished. Oh, read it to me. I don't know it. It says it all badly, but perhaps somehow behind the words is what I feel for this day.