Family Theater: Gramps

A program transcribed from Hollywood. The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Grams, starring Victor Moore, Eunem Erkel and Henry Blair. Irene Dunn is your hostess. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Here is Irene Dunn. You often hear it said that these are days of materialism. To many of us, that doesn't quite ring a bell. Perhaps that's because we don't always grasp what materialism means.

As I understand it, materialism is something like, well, selfishness. The me first spirit, the idea of material gain, is thinking a new fur coat or a shiny new automobile is more important than such things as fairness and honesty, consideration for others, service.

It's thinking there's nothing more to be desired than our own pleasure. It's thinking of ourselves and forgetting God. That's the basic idea of materialism, forgetting God. And the path away from materialism is to remember God.

It'll call upon Him daily through the medium of family prayer. For a prayerful family is the happy one. For the family that prays together stays together. Irene Dunn returns at the close of tonight's family theater story, Grams, starring Victor Moore, Eunemurkel, and Henry Blair.

Bill and I have been married for ten years. We have a modest home in Oakville, Indiana, and our family. Well, it's quite a family. You see, first there's... Mommy! Aunt G, do I have to go every day?

I can't explain this to you every day. That's Danny. He's only eight. And then there's our other youngster. Margaret, somebody's been messing around my fishing tackle again. That's Grant's. He's 78. Of course, Danny's years, or lack of them accounts for his attitude, but it's not always easy to understand Grant's.