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Family Theater: Christmas in July

Family Theater · July 29, 1948 · 28 min · 4,306 words

The transcript of “Christmas in July”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast July 29, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Mutable Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Christmas in July Starring Shirley Temple and John A. Gar James Craig is your host More things are brought by prayer in this world dreams of Ever watch the assembly line in an automobile factory and see a car being put together You might call it the miracle of human ingenuity

The numbers of men stand along the line, each with a part, to add to the growing perfection of the product. It's teamwork that turns out the perfect product. Yes, and it's teamwork that makes for success and happiness in a home.

All members of the family working together with one another, and with God. That's the teamwork of family prayer. And when there is daily remembrance of God in a home, when there is daily family prayer, God is a member of the family.

They understand one another. They love each other. And they can do wonderful things together. You'll never know how much help and unity, strength and happiness God can bring into your home until God is a member of your family.

Until your family makes family prayer a daily practice. James Craig will speak again following tonight's family theater story, Christmas in July, starring Shirley Temple and John Aighur. At last the day it arrived. I could hardly believe it as I sat motionless in the large audience that overflowed Johnson Memorial Hall.

There before me on the stage, the graduation exercises were actually beginning. I saw Glenn in the first row of graduates. He sat up straight, tense alert, his arms folded. I know he felt very proud.

He watched Dr. Rhodes walk across the stage towards the rostrum. The doctor adjusted his glasses and began to speak. I heard the words echoing around me, but somehow they seemed distant and far away. To you men is the last group of accelerated students to be graduated from Renora University.

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