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Family Theater: The Juggler of Our Lady

Family Theater · December 29, 1948 · 23 min · 2,734 words

The transcript of “The Juggler of Our Lady”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast December 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 Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you at this time a visit from America's Beloved Veritone, John Charles Thomas, and the celebrated storyteller John Nesbitt, who collaborated in words and music to present the immortal story called The Juggler of Our Lady.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Here is John Charles Thomas to tell us about a story which has become a traditional part of the Christmas season in our land. Mr. Thomas.

Dear friends, I have heard people say that the Christmas season is too long. Yet I think we all agree that the spirit of Christmas that never lasts too long is found when we live in the spirit of Christ, and in heed of His message to all men that we love one another.

I know one way of keeping the Christmas spirit all through the year, the way of daily family prayer. Praying together as a family will bring our homes to each of us each day the year, peace, and happiness of Christmas. And here in that spirit is the great story, which is a particular discovery of my friend John Nesbitt. He first translated it from the old

French and introduced it to American radio some years ago, and for the past four years of these years it has been our pleasure to present it together. John Nesbud in his own version of the words, myself as the monk who expressed himself chiefly in song.

So in song, I'll set the stage for our story, the jugular of our lady. Oh, it distars a brightly shot, and I'd rather dear, Savior's birth, and the soul faces, for young,

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