Family Theater: Hound of Heaven

Your family theatre presents Jack Benny, Daniel Herlehey and Rob O'Connor. Passion with Family Theatre Incorporated brings you The Hound of Heaven, starring Daniel Herlehey with narration by Rob O'Connor. With producer drama, your host, Jack Benny.

Thank you, Gene. We have an inspiring story on Family Theatre this week. The story of a poet who shall live forever in human hearts because he was able to put into words powerful, vital, beautiful words the eternal story of man's flight from God.

Dan O'Hurlay will play the role of Francis Thompson, while Rod O'Connor will act as narrator in this drama of a poet and his poem. I fled him down the nights. Yes, you fled him, you eluded him.

I fled him down the nights and down the days. Yes, you twisted turn, tried to escape him, but did you ever really escape him? And then, where shall I go from my spirit, or where shall I flee from thy face?

If I ascend up into heaven, bow out there, if I descend into hell." Name was Francis Thompson, and of all the lonely and obscure men who lived in London that year of 1887, none had made his bed in hell more surely than he.

For him, each night was a lying down in hunger and fear, each morning a slow awakening to pain. You there get up get up I say yes yes you can't sleep here you know that I know I know I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm getting along with you now come on get along with

you I say for Francis Thompson waking up on the Thames embankment each morning was a slow return to pain a remembrance of dreams twisted by hunger made hideous by fear. Dreams of delirium shot through with dying stars and the livers missed. They'd always had their ending somewhere at the broken edge of the world, with the nightstick prodding

Find out for yourself that the family that prays together stays together. More things are all by prayer than this world dreams are. Family Theater has brought you Daniel Hurley and Laudel Conner in the Hound of Heaven with Jack Benny as your host.

Our play was written by Frederick Lip with music by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for Family Theater by Jaime DelVoy. Of the members of our cast with Jane Novello, Eric Snowden, then Wright, Tudor Owen, and Jeanette Nolan.

This series of Family Theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who have felt the need for this type of program, and by the mutual network which has responded to this need. This is Gene Baker inviting you to be with us next week at the same time when Branch Rickey will introduce Eddie Bracken and Capio Donald in the Scout.