Family Theater: Fear Is a Little Word

The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Fear is a Little Word starring Joan Lawring and Louise Beavers. Bob Crosby is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

This is a busy world. Whether you're in Hollywood or New York, it's just the same. You find people rushing around here and there, back and forth. are too busy to call, relatives too busy to write, everybody's too busy. Yes, sometimes too busy to do a lot of things like being kind and thoughtful and ready to lend a helping

hand when someone needs it. And many homes are unhappy because parents haven't time for their children, having time to get together as a family. Why? Well, they're too busy, that's all. We need a little more time out, folks, all of us do, especially at home. We'd have a lot more happier homes if people took more time out for home life together.

Yes, that's important, because if we're too busy to think of God, too busy for daily family prayer in our homes, then we're really too busy. Bob Crosby will return after tonight's Family Theater Story. Fear is a little word, starring Joan Lawring and Louise Beavers.

Greenville is a small town in the south, bordering on the Mississippi. In this particular evening, a local chorus is rehearsing in the school, and through the open windows, the singing drifts out across the vacant lots to a small, neatly kept house at the edge of the town.

Virgil Lee is resting contentedly in her rocker on the back porch. She is listening to the music and watching her young daughter Joanne at her nightly chore of rounding up the chickens. Here, now look, haven't you got all them chickens in yet, child?