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[Music] and if everyone lit just one little candle what a bright world this would [Music] be Hello friends I am Jay Carol Nash and I'm here to help present the Christopher program but first I would like to introduce Father James Keller founder of the Christophers father Mr Nash you've been very generous to the Christopher program we appreciate having you back again thank you Father would you please start off our program for us I'll be delighted thank you today's Christopher Story might aptly be called recognition is not everything it concerns an incident in the life of the 19th century French painter Paul suzan though he is known today as the father of modern art he struggled for 35 years in complete Oblivion and during those years he worked and painted unceasingly his hours were spent because of his love of art rather than his desire for recognition his paintings were hung only in the homes of indifferent neighbors then one day the chance visit of a Paris art dealer changed Suzanne's whole life life the dealer took several canvases and arranged to have them exhibited in Paris the great of-the-art world were stunned because they recognized the Master's technique and approach Suzanne himself was astonished but for a very different reason when he arrived at the gallery on the arm of his son what he saw brought tears to his eyes look he whispered they've they've framed them that's a good example of the humility of the great isn't it father Kell yes it is J Carol Nash and friends it's wise for all of us to be very humble in the sight of God everything that we possess we have received from him and incidentally it's merely alone and one day each one of us you and you and you and myself must stand before almighty God and answer for the way we have used the talent small or large that he has entrusted to us in an effort to help you to discover and put to effective use your power for good we bring you this Christopher program week after week we try to remind you that there is something that you as one individual can do that no other person can accomplish God himself has assigned a mission in life for you to perform and that mission is to delegated to no other living individual so we constantly say that instead of keeping your good ideas to yourself put them to work apply them in your own home at your office in the classroom on the bus in the factory anywhere and everywhere and make a special effort to blend the changeless truths of Christ into every nook and corner of public as well as private life especially in such vital Fields as Government education literature entertainment and Labor Relations we heard not long ago from a man Upstate New York who is showing a lot of initiative along Christopher lines while working each day for a living he is also taking a correspondence course so that he will be fitted to play a more active and intelligent role in raising the standards of government God bless him for it now friends it is time for a visit with our guest please friends as our guest on this Christopher program we have Mr Edward l Kelly and he is a specialist in toys I think you're U what is you tell the name of your firm Louis marks and Company we're the largest manufacturers of toys in the world the largest in the world that's right well uh what is your post for them I'm in the uh sales department well you have to scatter the toys around scatter them around and get the Distribution on it well friends uh Mr Kelly told me some very interesting things about toys I'm going right back to toys myself after a little talk from him but I wish you would just uh give our audience some of the your wonderful ideas on the function of toys well of course as you know they've uh existed in the culture of all people throughout the ages yes develop that a bit and uh way back goes back even to prehistoric man they found the remnants of uh early play things mhm of course the uh the early toys are all the results of uh the parents imagination and the parents handiwork mhm and today if it's developed into quite a sizable industry there's one point Mr Kelly made for uh in our little discussion friends and that was uh the uh the part that toys should play and the part that educational General toys and educational toys I wish you would explain that well actually uh I would say it's most important that uh as we realize that each child has its own rate of development by both physically and uh and mhm so the first consideration the parent has to have is to fit the toy to the child MH and uh by that I mean there's only the parent that actually knows his own child that intimately to properly uh select the toys involved and then of course uh Toys unlike most adult purchases can't be postponed I mean if you need a new uh sofa for your living room or a new rug and you can put it off for a couple of years if you can't afford it mhm but when your child needs needs a velocipede or a wagon you either buy it when it needs it and it's suiting to it or you don't buy it at all MH so uh when you talk about the uh the educational aspects of it I I from what I've uh seen in the papers and magazines through recent years have entirely too much stress placed on Purely the educational value of toys I mean as I see it the uh primary function of a toy is to entertain because if it doesn't entertain it'll never educate you see everything a child handles or comes in contact with everything he experiences is an education MH but unless you get the interest of the child and hold it with the good solid play value in the toy you'll never get them to take it just for educational value no they must like it first yeah well like if I force you out to play golf I mean you either like it or you don't if I force you it's not fun anymore well you wouldn't have to force me but I can't get time I'd love to play but it's been a long time since I last played but I uh I must admit that this is the first time I saw the difference until you tell me the difference between the normal toy and the educational toy the educational toy has a a part to play but it shouldn't be voed on children unless they want it that's right I mean it's got to be suited to the child mhm and uh there's many many of novelty toy for example that uh uh people you say uh universally condemn because there's no participation of the child in it m but the the novelty toys toys there's many of them that uh give more enjoyment to the parents than they do to the children yeah and uh anything that gives enjoyment like that uh it's impossible to put a price tag on the smile of an adult or the laugh of child it's a very it's a good Outlet too that's right I mean it's just strictly for their for their entertainment and their fun well often times we don't think that the uh that the Lord wants us to have a little legitimate fun joy in a normal Wholesome Way in this life there a little preparation for the life to come that's right and I think that the toys uh perform that uh service too now any final uh word that you would have as a suggestion well I would say that uh it's most important for the uh parents to remember that the toys are never substitute for themselves that's and that uh too many parents think if they go out and spend a lot of money on toys that' done their Duty as far as entertaining and uh educating their child in the home excellent excellent yeah so I think it's most important that that the parents participate with their children I mean there's many games that uh the parents would enjoy as many as well as the children would M and uh especially now with the many suburban homes there's all sorts of outdoor activities that uh everybody can uh join in uh there's some wonderful uh books written for children that uh the parents should uh take and read MH and uh many of those books are uh very simply written on uh quite intricate subjects I mean subject that uh the average parent thinks he knows but uh he may have known it 30 or 40 years ago mhm and he actually should read it in the very simple form that the child has to read it in now to refresh himself on it mhm so I think the uh the parents should definitely participate with the child well you're a good Christopher in the toy business God bless you and keep you for many years thank you now Mr Kelly we're going to have the privilege of a uh a little musical number by the great pianist Miss Pauline Carter [Music] thank you Pauline Carter friends on this uh Christopher program we have as our guest a teenager Susan Martin who uh if you have followed any of our Christopher programs in the past you may have heard her reading from the Holy scripture for us occasionally and Susan has uh some very fine ideas of her own but I'll leave it to her to tell you about this career you're thinking of Susan I'm thinking of going into teaching I'm going to college now to learn and well the main reason that I've wanted to do choose this field not only because there is such a great call for it but because um this may sound funny I don't know uh uh I've always felt that there's so much that I could do as a person to help to help children form themselves I know the influence that teachers have had on me are so great I could run down a whole list of them of what they've given to me as a person well that's very nice to speak so well of them I I would really love to have that type of influence on someone else well teaching is a is a field where you can I mean just think every year 25 30 40 young minds and hearts and souls you're molding and uh well it's a hard preparation it's a hard life but a very satisfying one it is when you feel that you've done something to not only contribute to a few children but perhaps to the betterment of the nation oh these these phrases sound so big and meaningless but really it's true uh I don't know you feel that that you've given so much you don't feel that you've just uh come and you've lived and you've died and so what well Susan i' I'd like to ask you you're much nearer the teenage stage than I am but uh what would you say uh there's been you know about a certain amount of complaint I don't think much of it is Justified but and we're not concerned about the complaints about teenagers as much as we are and getting them to spread their wings and bring out the great idealism that's in them the whole thing I think with the teenager is that um they have a tendency to just after they've graduated from grammar school or even high school they want to stay in the little rut in which they were born and they they I don't even know if it's they want to but they do they their ideals are are extended to the corner uh grocery store or candy store and that's just where it ends and they they just think of making a living uh whereas so so few at least I as I was saying uh in college we get quite a few figures on how many children teenagers do go on to higher education and you'd be surprised at how few actually go past the grammar school levels and you know of course that limits you you to what you can do not only for your own personal gain or betterment but for the betterment of your community as well and your children now you speaking with a voice of experience from your know you're among teenagers now and and uh we have tried in our way and I just want to check with you to see if you think this is correct we say that down when you're 12 13 14 you ought to try to pick a career with a purpose some great goal in life where you're going to do something for the love of God and love of others and if you start preparing for that even if you change later you're preparing for something is that practical that's so true oh yes Father when when you've got something in mind it doesn't even even if you want to be the president of the United States you know how some children say that when people are doing something or they're reaching for something they develop so much more than if they just accept what they've got and take what what comes you know if they reach out for things uh that's why I'm reaching for teaching I don't know what'll happen if I become a teacher but well I think you're very wise and I think many teenagers and parents and teachers and everybody else could uh could get a good reminder from what you're saying that if you if you hit for a goal suppose you decide now to be a writer or something you're going to develop qualities within you now there are one final suggestion you would have for teenagers teenagers as students can do so much uh well take a note of the Hungarian Revolt that was a students Revolt as you know and the world response was due mainly to students uh if if students sort of unite not as a a body to destroy or you know or or feel their oats or anything but to really push the young younger generation ahead I know that so many kids of my age have a tendency to ridicule things that we take for granted but that impress the younger children so much like school you know you make fun of school oh it's nothing and then they they take it in and they they they react in this way they they uh really look up to teenagers so much and if if they just realize a power that they had for good well uh thank you very much Susan Martin God has given every young person every person but Young have such great hope he's given them a power for good as soon Mar just said and if they would just develop that and use it for the G greater glory of God and the good of souls all over they bring out so much in themselves now Susan we're going to have a reading from the Holy Bible Now by Jay Carol Nash and just before Mr Nash reads it I would recommend that teenagers take uh do a little reading just even a few verses out of the Holy Bible every day and use it as a means of meditation and developing that those great inner values that are so much needed for any kind of work they go into but God bless you and now we will sit back and listen to J Carol NES D oh God to rescue me oh Lord make haste to help me let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my life and let them be turned back in disgrace who desire My ruin let them retire in their shame and say to me aha ah but may all who seek you exalt and be glad in you may those who love your salvation say ever God be glorified but I am Afflicted and poor oh God hasten to help me you are my help and my deliverer oh Lord hold not back thank you J Carol Nash and all of us can repeat that prayer that you just offered uh oh Lord make haste to help me remember that the Lord is always waiting but he wants us to turn to him like a child does to his father or mother uh we must do something in our part the Lord will never be outdone in generosity but we should turn to him especially in our needs in Christopher work we constantly say that we can be partners with God we can be instruments of his love and truth well don't try to depend upon yourself because really of ourselves we are nothing depend upon God do everything through him and you will begin your heaven on Earth now let us have a visit with our next Christopher Guest friends uh this is Mr James defo he's a copywriter at the guy advertising agency here in New York and now now uh we expect you to tell us what your what work you do well I uh write uh TV commercials for Disneyland father on Nash Hudson and brambler Automobiles how did you happen to get into this type of work well I was uh always interested in writing and I felt that there was a tremendous opportunity in advertising well they do a very good job but it nevertheless it it means a great deal of responsibility doesn't it it does FL the yes and it takes a great deal of time too uh actually U it's one of the problems I think with many businessmen today they feel they don't have time uh and they certainly have good intentions I know with myself for instance uh uh about two years ago I was looking around for some uh particular work that might uh that I might do and would be particularly fitted for and uh um I heard an appeal on the radio uh for the Cleveland Better Business Bureau they wanted a writer so I went over there and I decided I'd do that for a few weeks I thought it was just going to be too honorous uh a job and uh actually I found out that it was wonderful job I had an awful lot of fun it didn't take up too much time because I think so many times people forget that uh you can reduce any job to a routine and a couple hours a week uh after you get on to writing a show is fine well it offers tremendous possibilities doesn't it I mean you you can uh affect the thought of Millions for good can't you that's right father actually understand I was reading in a magazine that people spend more time watching television they do working well you're a good advertising represent uh tell me Mr defo uh the businessman in his job he has great responsibilities but what about his responsibilities outside number one the home can you make any suggestions on that because there's a tendency to uh get so absorbed in business the home becomes incidental and that should always be primary that's true uh a good friend of mine who is a copy Chief and who is uh has a very uh difficult job and one that puts quite heavy demands on his time uh makes a rule to spend at least one day a week no matter how important the jobs he's working on it's at least one day a week with his family in other words the whole day he'll go away with them on a Sunday or something like that and U he that's sometimes very hard to do it may not seem so but it can be difficult you you press and you uh you have to put first things first yeah as long as you don't get ulcers well another another thing what about the businessman taking an interest in uh in Affairs have you got any suggestion way without interfering with his his home as business but nevertheless he has obligations to Community Affairs to National Affairs and so forth that's right father uh something like the the uh Big Brother movement another friend of mine um a young fellow got interested in that and he's um talks about about it all the time explain what that is if you will well that that's a movement whereby people try to help um uh young boys uh who are having troubles or who have perhaps not the very best uh environment and uh they will take it upon themselves to uh go in and try to help out that environment it's really uh social work and it's a very high level too they they would take a particular case and do what they can that time take him the baseball games win his friendship good well that's a that's a very holy work that's doing what the Lord would do taking an interest in those who have trouble that's right now what about government what can the young businessman do well for one thing he can uh try to take part in the local government so many of us live in in small communities and there are problems that come up and we just don't have time uh for him but uh it really does pay off if you uh you can keep your your finger in and uh uh try to uh participate well you're a very good representative guy agency tell him you're right on the job thank you and God bless you thank you and now friends we're going to be favored by the great harpist Jean [Music] Bianco [Music] [Music] thank you very much friends our Pro time is just about up and now just before the close may I bring you the Christopher thought for the week a novelist was asked to speak to a group of undergraduates at a large Eastern University all those present had literary Ambitions and the author began by saying how many of you would really want to be writers every single student raised his hand in that case said the novelist there's no point in wasting your time here go home and start writing well this seemed a little brusk but there is a point to what he said if you want to do anything you have to start doing it if you want to be a cook get in the kitchen if you want to swim get in the water and if you want to do something for the love of God and man you have to make the first move God will help you the rest of the way friends it has been a privilege and joy to have this visit with you don't forget for one moment how important you are in God's sight that he has assigned a mission in life for you to perform that he has given to no one else in short there is no substitute for you you can start right now to be a Christopher or Christ Bearer do whatever you can to improve the Great spheres of influence Fields such as Government education literature entertainment and Labor Relations don't spend valuable time complaining and criticizing or finding fault remember the Christopher motto better to Light One Candle than to curse the darkness be a candle lighter not a blower outer in the Christopher movement friends we have no memberships no meetings no dues our Christopher news notes I have a copy here being sent to more than a million individuals each month free of charge you too may have them without any cost by simply sending a postcard to the Christophers New York 17 New York in conclusion may I offer for you this simple prayer I vow and consecrate to God all that is in me my memory and my actions to God the Father my understanding and my words to God the son my will and my thoughts to God the Holy Spirit my heart and my body my tongue my senses and all my sorrows to the sacred Humanity of Jesus Christ who is intended to be betrayed into the hands of wicked men and to suffer the torment of the Cross Friends next week at this same time and on the same station we will bring you another Christopher program thank you and God bless you and if everyone lit just one little candle what a bright world this world [Music] be