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Family Theater: Footsteps in the Night

Family Theater · November 3, 1948 · 23 min · 3,145 words

The transcript of “Footsteps in the Night”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 3, 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 mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Footsteps in the Night, starring Lon McAllister with Kay Christopher and Jean Reynolds. Kate Smith is your hostess. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Hello everybody, this is Kate Smith. I'm glad of the opportunity to speak to you through this Family Theater program. You know, living good, helpful, homey lives doesn't make many headlines, but let me tell you I haven't known any finer people anywhere than most folks in show business.

And a whole lot of them want to try to get more families to kneel down together in daily family prayer. They know that's the answer, or at least the beginning of the answer, to what's wrong with the world in these troubled days.

All of us know that there's no sure way to happiness for individuals, for families, for communities and nations, then to call on God to help us in our daily struggles. It's true indeed that the family that prays together stays together, and a world at prayer is a world at peace.

Kate Smith speaks again following tonight's Family Theater story, starring Lon McAllister with Kate Christopher and Jean Reynolds in Footsteps in the Night. And it came to pass, when Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve, were in the field together, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him.

But the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy brother? And he answered, I know not, am I my brother's keeper? steps, footsteps keeping time together. My brothers and mine, listen to them. Robin's footsteps and mine, his that lead in mine that follow, his that are positive, mine that are only an echo. You are your brother's keeper. Strange that these

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