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Family Theater: These Thy Gifts

Family Theater · October 29, 1952 · 24 min · 3,589 words

The transcript of “These Thy Gifts”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast October 29, 1952. 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 theatre presents Robert Stack and Jean Lockhart. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents These Thy Gifts starring Robert Stack. To introduce the drama, here is your host, Jean Lockhart. Thank you, Tony LaFauno.

Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that has to become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family theatre urges you to pray, to pray together as a family, and now to our drama, these thy gifts starring Robert Stack as Joe. In the beginning, man saw that he had dignity and a great hunger and a great thirst, for For his dignity demanded freedom, and his freedom demanded the choosing of his own destiny,

his own government. And for this he lived and died through a million generations, seed upon seed, from the beginning of the world to the crossing of the last Korean River. And his thirst will never be quenched, and his hunger will never be satisfied.

Dear Mom, Dad. The first time in a month I have a chance to write you. It isn't much of a chance, so I hope you won't mind if I have to sign off suddenly and say goodbye.

The fighting has been pretty tough all along this front, and our unit may be called up again any minute. I'm sitting in what's left of the town's only hotel. I look up from the littered desk I'm writing on and look straight down the town's main street.

The view is perfect because more than half of the hotel's front wall has been blown away. A burned-out enemy tank is lying on its side in the gutter about half a block away. Two ragged children are approaching it cautiously, wondering, Don't imagine that just because I haven't written I haven't been thinking of you, because

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