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Family Theater: No Greater Love

Family Theater · August 7, 1947 · 29 min · 3,853 words

The transcript of “No Greater Love”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast August 7, 1947. 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 Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents No Greater Love, starring Vanessa Brown and Reed Hadley. Frankly, he is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Our prayer isn't something to dream about. It's a practical part of everyday life. Your life and my life in a practical world of everyday affairs. And what we need today is practical men, practical men who pray, men who realize that no matter how big they think they are, they still need God's help.

We all agree the world would be a better place if we had more happiness in the homes. So let's be practical about making our homes happy. Let's get down to a very serious and important business in our lives.

Let's not do a lot of talking about making the world better. Let's make our own homes, our own children better. And there's no better way of doing it than by gathering our family together every day for family prayer.

Let's be practical. Let's pray as a family. Our scene, the Manhattan office of a famous eye specialist, and well my eyesight started darkening up about six months ago. Been getting worse ever since. Hm. Strange.

Very strange. Tell me, Mr. Bailey, your mother and father. They ever have trouble with their eyes. Mom never had unappear a spixen in life. Died about three years ago. And your father? Oh, Dad. He died when I was a little kid.

As I remember it, he didn't see a team of horses coming and step right in front of them. But why? Extraordinary case. Very. Might possibly be hereditary. What might possibly be hereditary? Tell me straight, Dr. Walton.

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