1950's Kinescope - religious TV show

[Music] good morning I'm John shakes burger moderator on words in music this morning in the past few months we have endeavored to bring you a series of discussion and debates ranging on everything from social problems to apparent in youth relationships we show the outlook and opinion of our young Christians so they might present to you their suggestions their beliefs on how to make Christianity a truly practical thing a living thing in people's lives we feel that our young people are quite qualified because of their backgrounds their activities their leadership and the various churches in the Council of Churches and so once again this morning we have brought them to you with a theme what does my faith mean to me faith that's such an important thing in people's lives isn't it and here with us also to help guide us and give us a maturity and a spiritual insight on problems is a man who has betrayed a judge and several of our youth programs so convincingly people were wondering if he actually wasn't a judge rather than a very fine Methodist minister he is the Reverend Karl Baraka mourning for those kind words the hardest morning girls I'm fine well now I would like to introduce our panels to you we have two panels here and I'll introduce both of them to you the first one will participate first on my right is Sandi Wilson morning how are you Carolyn rhobar French Slater are you Fred and on my left we starting with Russ Avery morning huh Mary Jane Brooks mr. waadt excuse me and Judy Myers how are you Judy sandy I think we should start with you this morning you seem to be especially ignorant on the edge of your chair over there sandy ah would you tell us what your faith means to you I think that I have sort of learned to apply my faith in a practical sort of way you see in the morning when I wake up I feel that if I can start today by asking God to just be with me throughout the day that somehow disappointments that come up or the tasks that need to be done somehow he gives me the strength to do all this and it sort of lends a mellowing to the start of the day and it carries out throughout the day Karin does your faith differ from this or do you go along with sandy on your views on what faith means in your life personally I agree with sandy it it's a great help to know that there is someone who is with you and who is helping you and if you have a problem to solve or a decision to make during the day it's a great help to know that there's someone on your side who has a definite set of rules that will help you make your decision yeah just saying pardon me for breaking in but I'd like to ask a question here supposing someone doesn't have this faith I mean supposing they just they're going on their merry way well how would someone get this faith I don't Carolyn or Fred this faith is you can only get it through Jesus Christ it's something that you must accept and well I cannot really explain it but the faith itself but it is something that as faith is it's something that isn't concrete but don't you agree with that just as the listener on this particular at this point I would like to interject the idea that is it something that's abstract is it rust as it's a it's not concrete now I would disagree with that what did you say yes very definitely I think that faith is something that's concrete that's something that's with you every time maybe it's a feeling that that Christ is with you but I would say very definitely it is concrete and part of part of the life of the believing Christians mm-hmm yes I I think that all of these students here have had an opportunity to deal with a very touching or ticklish human relation problem and the faith ought to be practical at that point how does it help you deal with a little hostility in your life just early did you meet someone who is very hostile to you or has some characteristics that you don't like if you have the face and if you are following the examples that have been set before you will do your best to try and be nice to this person and find the good points in his personality a very good book click shows all the ways of doing this thing is the norman vincent peale book sit just sit down what's Andy I see that you've got your hand up over there do you have something you want to say I be true but I don't always find it so easy to say well now because I'm a Christian everything's gonna be fine and I can I can accept this person I don't always find it so easy I think it's a little hard to practice this is very high well I'd like to ask Fred Oh question Fred you're a San Diego State ER and a basketball player your life 6:4 I'd like to ask you now how does fate help you on the basketball court when you're losing does it help you be a better player or is it help you become a better sportsman or does it give you strength how does faith figure in and athletics for instance and things along this line well my faith is a big help on the basketball court because say that the team is losing and there's you have that problem of always Oh in basketball you have the personal contact there and getting mad at the other person but if you think and just ask God to be with you to have him help you practice your Christian life on the basketball court if it's really a great help it gives you this added bit of strength that you just seem to need on the court do you think that what part is prayer playing faith who would could answer that this problem big meaning in this yes Cara language well my opinion in prayer is just simply talking with God and you can pray anytime you want and if you're just walking down the street and you see something that's going to hurt you you can say you can pray to God that it will either keep it from hurting you or you will be able to resist the hurt you can even pray any time you want I see some two hands and a smile it's driven here oh no I wasn't going to disagree I was just going to say that I think throwing this hit on the key to prayer it's talking with God it's you wouldn't look to your friend on the street and pull out this long sheet of paper and say well now these are the things I've done these are the things I'm sorry I did to you I don't think we'd do that and it's the same principle when you're talking to God you don't take a little written prayer and say well now this is what I've done and I'm sorry and I'll try to next time is something that you you talk with God and you talk from your heart with God friend I was just going to add into that that prayer is our communication with God it's our one way of God really is speaking to him and getting close to him Reverend Bihari I wonder if you would come up here with our young people who said so nicely this morning I I really enjoyed this and I got a lot of help out of this actually because here is a practical application of faith and it has to be practical because if this faith isn't going to help us in our real life situations it isn't it isn't worth having really and I like the answers and I say that this one thing is one one item that I would like to emphasize is that faith has very practical uses in the very definite living that we have to do day in and day out that's my way back in just one short minute but right now it's time for our own gay barman trio to sing where their favorite Negro spirituals the gable entry oh very wonderful I think and now we're back with our second panel of eager experts to discuss this question of what does their faith mean to them and I would like to introduce them again to you starting on my less left Russ Avery the next to Russ is Judy Myers and right next to me is Mary Jane Brooks are you ready to go panel yeah why now rests wasn't we start with you you're uh I'm an eager beaver to light you so supposing you tell us what your faith means to you well I follow someone along thin lines sandy John and Carol Fred and Caroline it's something that gives me an inward strength when I need it it's it's not something that's tangible really it's step to you personally something that's hard to explain them it's something that's there when you need it it's a strength it that you can use and you need it's just it's just there when you need it no matter where you're at and what you're doing so safety you Russ then is something that you can count on in the moments in the crisis that you have to have something that faith is a strength behind you that's it pretty violently well Don jury uh can you give us possibly a different meaning of faith there are different conception of faith it's applied to your life well John faith is is something that is true that gives strength but I find that as long as you can question your faith and grow from the questions you have about your faith your faith grows deeper and and you grow spiritually that way and that's my conception of face something that deep there's always something more to learn about it this john things all very well and good and I'm wondering now we can go on in fair enix found but how about in the everyday adventures that we undertaken encounters when you have an individual who will be directly aggressive against you now you are working for a purpose and for somebody encounters you this can happen in school that can happen in your activity endeavors it can happen in various businesses and what have you but taking it more or less on our own age level what will we do is apply in this case practically I'm wondering well Mary Jane you have to learn you first you have to realize why the person I'm just like sure or is definitely aggressive to you there's always a basic reason behind it and I think usually if you can realize that you can come to forgive the person and maybe even eventually become their friend by helping them through that crisis you're all high school student I'd like to ask you a question about faith you have a real good conception of it here for instance concered you think of faith in terms of helping you to get out of tight gym so I'm some say you put off writing a term paper to the last moment you know god I have this paper in and you fail the course what do you what is your faith tell you about this does it help you out here or rely on faith in a case like this I've done it before and I'll tell you the truth it is the temptation to maybe copy somebody else's maybe borrow one and copy a bit I find that you usually just get in and dig that much harder and maybe stay up all night writing it rather than copy it and I guess you call it cheating it really if you have a if you have a deep foundation in your faith you just can't do it feel right about it so did your faith just helps you out here and once you overcome this yeah Judy how do you feel about this you think that you should rely on faith when you put off something the very last moment done well it's not exactly something to rely on but I'll say this much when you you got an exam coming up and you haven't studied for it and you think well maybe you're going to fail it well praying to God isn't necessarily going to help you pass it but praying to God is going to give you the strength to take it if you do fail it that's what your faces I mean I ask a Christian here now if you don't pass this test you have possibly pray for guidance would get to the end and we see it all coming and what have you and so we think maybe there's somebody else that can take over from here on and out now if something does occur takes its natural course perhaps let's say and you do flunk the test now are you saying this is God's will this is something that he meant to happen for a purpose I'm wondering what the attitudes might be well you know they say that our God will help somebody that helps itself and when you get along it's fine well I don't really feel it you're helping yourself on the counter you probably haven't been studying you haven't been working in and it's really your fault it's not God's fault that you fail this you haven't been working you've been amazing maybe you decided you'd sooner go to the show and study for a test and in it's your fault it's not God's and and I can't I don't feel that you can vein him for something that you haven't done yourself so you should take the blame upon your shoulders that's right well we have time for one more question here and I think this is very good how do you think that faith helps people overcome feelings of inadequacy and three already complexes and things along this line how do you think that faith gives you something concrete to work on here Judy would you answer this well gee John oh do you think often I you you come into contact with people that that are one I maybe I shouldn't say anything this way that are in a worse state than you are about your feelings with inadequacy and lots of times if you can help somebody up helps you and it it helps you overcome your inadequacy very Jade how do you feel about this well I went back once before about thinking away from oneself and it seems that I have realized that I have limitations and inadequacies and by leaps and bounds and they're all before me but however I find great souls and very often thinking about the many things that I have been given in that I do have this is very important in retaining just a second I would say that the concluding comment I could make about this is the faith is basically an attitude john faith is an attitude toward life and as this attitude establishes itself in our lives we get a different approach toward living it's a successful approach it's a positive approach and it helps us to meet all of our situations and experiences creatively wonderful now to the coral at musical group which were singing may now by spirit we have with us now a very fine representative of the city of San Diego the vice mayor mr. Williams how are you mr. Williams running John it's good to have you with us the reason that mr. mayor mr. Williams is here is because of a youth achievement award but I would like now to talk to mr. Williams for history brief moment about the city of San Diego and its interest in youth which I know is great so mr. Williams would you tell us something about the youth programs and youth activities that the city is sponsoring right now John Lee the City Council of course is always trying to cope with this very situation that well we haven't the facilities really around San Diego is to take care of the youngsters and give them a place to really get out and enjoy themselves and we know that we have this problem we're trying to to cope with it as a matter of fact John just the other day the other day last week now I'm going by so rapidly the City Council did procreative funds for the improvement of a large recreational area out in Ocean Beach and it's an area that has long been without any real form of recreation area or activity I'm amazed I used to be a youth worker with recreation myself I'm amazed at the facilities and San Diego seems to have it just seems that every playground I see there there's some sort of activity going on is this true as a whole city at the playgrounds that we that we do have and do operate now I think the activities are pretty well-managed but unfortunately we haven't enough playground sometimes but we're trying to build up additional youth areas where young people can go and enjoy themselves and under the right kind of guidance what I have a young man who I'd like you to meet mr. Williams who is to be presented to you achievement award Jim Terence good morning mr. Roy has been running down our region are you Jim I'd like to say first of all is taking a vacation on this program day before this he's been the moderator the guy who has been really working and putting all the labor so this is a vacation for Jim well you're too kind and because because the work that he's put in on this we're going to present this award Jim where you going to school no well I'm a junior on San Diego State College I'm a graduate someday if I keep working at it you've got big plans as far as the summer goes would you care to tell us about them well just briefly August 15th a friend of mine and I sail for Europe from Hoboken New Jersey as a matter what are your plans for Europe why are you going over we've studied about so many things and here's an opportunity to see them firsthand and to really appreciate their value well that's great but what is your course of study Jim well I'm majoring in psychology of course I'm planning to enter the ministry and I feel that this will help me a great deal in the coming emphasis on counseling in the future years Jim I you know are you interested on any are you doing anything out in San Diego State's campus in the way of religion and I yes the Presbyterian Church of which I'm a member has the Westminster Club their facilities for lounging studying we have our own portion of the Westminster Church there and so they have a Westminster Club also which I'm a member of well that's great also do you expect to be leaving for Europe on your whether we're frantically saving the money now and I think by August 15th we should be on the boat just one second would you tell us I think it's amazing he has told me his schedule and I think that it's just one of the greatest I've ever heard about you work at conjurer during the night is this right yes you go to school during the day yes and you forget about sleeping is that right it limits your sleeping greatly and then we can buy to the television program well that's really great busy schedule something we're doing now mr. Williams yes John I'm I'm certainly very pleased to have the opportunity of representing the San Diego Council of Churches and presenting to you this the highest award youth achievement recognition by the San Diego County of churchill's Council of Churches - James Tarin the Council of Churches is proud to honor you as a youth worthy of commendation and to present this award on the council's television program we're doing music Jim I certainly want to congratulate you on behalf of the Council of Churches and also the city of San Diego we're very proud of our young people who work so recognized thank you very much mr. Williams thank you John yeah crash elation gentlemen thank you very much for the good work you've done and thank you mr. Williams also coming down and presenting Jim with this award and now we go to a tenor solo by Arthur Bunch [Music]