"♪" "♪" "♪ the heart is a rebel ♪" "♪ and cannot be trusted ♪" "♪ it always is seeking its own will to do ♪" "♪ it has no allegiance ♪" "♪ so desperate and wicked ♪" "♪ the heart is a rebel, it's true ♪" "♪ its love is brief as springtime ♪" "♪ quickly growing old ♪" "♪ its hate is like ♪" "♪ the winter ♪" "♪ desolate and cold ♪" "♪ but someday the rebel ♪" "♪ will bow and surrender ♪" "♪ then God's love will make his heart new ♪" "♪" "♪ I sing because I'm happy ♪" "♪ and I sing because I'm free ♪" "♪ for his eye is on the sparrow ♪" "♪ and I know he watches me ♪" "[Humming]" "[Disappointed] Oh, glady, is it time to eat already?" "Sure is!" "And we got a real, real good supper tonight!" "I'm not hungry, yet!" "But sugar, you got to eat just the same." "You fixed carrots again." "Davy foster, you know what doc chambers said." "He said, "feed that boy carrots!"" "And that's what I'm about to do, and you're about to eat them!" "They'll make me get sicker!" "That is pure foolishness, and you know it!" "All day long I wear myself down to a frazzle, fetching' you this and bringing you that..." "Like you was a prince or something." "Then when I ask you to do a measly little ol' thing like eatin' your carrots, you start giving me trouble!" "Okay." "That's better." "♪" "Hi, son." "Hi, dad!" "How do you feel tonight?" "Oh, I'm okay..." "But these carrots are awful!" "Aw..." "They can't be that bad, can they?" "Evenin', Mr. hal." "Hello, Gladys, how'd it go today?" "Oh, fine, just fine, me and Davy always get along fine." "Better'n anybody." "Oh, Mr. hal, miss Joan called." "Said she'd be about a half hour late." "Something about a rush order at the store." "She also said she'd stop by the delicatessen on her way home for you not to worry about dinner." "Thanks, Gladys." "Guess I better be hurrying myself, or I'll be late." ""Glady" sings every night in a big choir at Madison square garden, dad." "There was a picture of it in the papers!" "That's right, sugar." "And believe me, when that many folks get to singing praise to our blessed savior, the roof just about comes off that old Madison square garden." "Well, good night, baby." "See you in the morning." "'Bye, glady." "'Night, Mr. hal." "'Night, Gladys." "Gladys give you this, son?" "Uh-huh, there's some swell stories in it." "They're all from the Bible." "Oh, I can't eat any more." "I'm too full." "Hey, wait a minute, son." "Sometimes I wonder who's team you're playing on." "I'm on your team, dad." "Remember when we decided we'd all work together, lick this heart thing?" "Doc chambers said your job was to eat everything that Gladys fixed for you, get lots of rest." "But if you don't hold up your end, the rest of us might as well quit, too!" "I'll try, dad, honest I will." "Okay..." "See that you do." "Is glady on our team, too, dad?" "Why..." "Sure she is." "That's good." "(Joan) Hi, everybody!" "Guess who?" "Sorry I'm late, darling." "Hi, honey." "Hi, mom." "Hi, Davy!" "How's my boy tonight?" "Fine!" "What's that, mom?" "The latest thing." "It's a rocket to the moon!" "I thought you might like to try putting it together." "Thanks, mom!" "Just don't try to do it all in one day!" "Supper'll only take a few minutes, dear." "No hurry." "Hey, slow up there, pal." "Here, lemme give you a hand." "[Dish breaks]" "You buy the noisiest dishes." "Tomorrow night..." "Paper plates!" "That's sort of an eloquent symbol of the foster economy, isn't it?" "Bits and pieces..." "Insurance bills, doctor bills, rent, food..." "Which reminds me, we're two weeks behind with Gladys." "She mention it?" "Oh, no, she won't, either." "It's just that I'd hoped we could catch up this week." "Davy sure has taken to her." "But it's not right, Joan!" "You're his mother." "You should be sharing these everyday things with him." "Sometimes I feel as though we're just his friends." "That Gladys is the only family he's got." "Oh, that's ridiculous, hal." "Davy knows how much we love him." "I'm just grateful that we found Gladys." "Without her to, oh, I don't even like to think about it." "Still, you shouldn't have to work." "Darling, why not?" "Hundreds of thousands of women work every day of their lives." "What's so special about me?" "And furthermore, I don't relish Gladys filling Davy's head with a lot of this religious mumbo jumbo." "What are you talking about?" "Well, right now, she's got him engrossed in a Bible story book." "I'd just rather not have him exposed to that sort of thing." "Davy's illness forces him into kind of a dream world." "And all this "old time religion" business, that could warp him mentally." "I know how damaging it is to your ego to have a wife that works, oh, but this is too much." "I read Bible stories as a child." "Why, I even got a gold pin for not missing a week in Sunday school." "Do you think that warped me mentally?" "Okay..." "Oh, hal, do you realize we drag along day by day without any real emotion except worry?" "We just can't go on being scared all the time!" "Forget I sounded off, will ya?" "I heard a rumor today at the agency." "Greg Johnson's going to move upstairs, and if it's true," "Pratt and noble will need a new copy director." "(Greg) It's a whole new line of prepared food mixes, ready cake mix, biscuit mix," "muffins, rolls, frostings--the works." "Package design has eye appeal." "They've got to to meet the competition we're facing these days." "We've got to come up with more than that, hal." "We've got to find a gimmick." "Something that will tie the whole campaign together." "Break your back on the copy for this one, hal." "They're pressuring me from upstairs." "That's news?" "Pioneer's billings are only pushing eight figures this year..." "Eight." "That's why the "old man's" decided to sit on this one personally." "Hal, you know what that means?" "A successful campaign could do great things for both of us." "So..." ""Make that copy stand up and sing, boy!"" "You took the words right out of my mouth, hal." "Yes, I know." "Okay, Greg." "I'll give my all for dear old pioneer!" "[Typewriter keys click]" "Well, you were in there long enough." "What did he have to say?" "Oh, the usual, shoulders to the wheel, all that jazz." "Where's bill?" "He's over at Clayton's researching some perfume copy." "Well..." "Well what?" "Very impressive." "Pioneer's new line of food mixes." "Now, I'll need the analysis that research did on this." "Uh-hmm." "And you're doing the copy for the whole campaign?" "Uh-huh." "Wait'll the girls hear about this!" "Now, don't make a big thing out of it." "I might not come up with the right answers, you know." "Oh, yes, you will." "And I'll bring you fresh coffee every hour." "Well, now, this sudden dedication is a little frightening." "Well, look, if you keep on landing these blue ribbon assignments, it's just a question of time until they boost you up the ladder with a nice fat pay raise, right?" "You're writing the copy, you tell me." "Well, then, naturally, you'll take me along as your private secretary, and I'll get a nice fat pay raise, too!" "Which I need desperately." "Now, what makes you so positive that I'll ask for you on moving day?" "Because you'd rather put up with my insolence than go through the torture of breaking in a new secretary who might not cater to your every whim!" "Miss canfield..." "Why aren't you at your post guarding this office from enemy infiltration?" "The enemy, sir?" "Well, this communique from the 15th floor to all personnel doesn't sound very friendly." "Hail, friend!" "The purchasing department advises that requisitions for pencils, number 3 hard, have exceeded by 14 gross the number consumed during any previous quarter in the history of this agency." "Since gross billings for this same quarter were down 15 percent, it must be assumed this inventory was not used in the performance of company business." "Personnel are reminded that office supplies are not intended for personal or domestic use." "I thank you." "[Applause]" "I knew your incessant pencil sharpening was bound to cause economic ruin." "♪" "Huh!" "We did pretty well with those big Teddy bears." "Ooo, those plush skunks are a slow item." "I'm going to have to go over this report later, grace." "Right now, I've got to track down a gross of pin the tail on the donkey sets or know the reason why." "Aw, then madam, perhaps I could interest you in our official, deluxe dick Tracy detective kit, complete with magnifying glass, badge, and fingerprint powder, oh, it's a dandy!" "Better stay with the skunks, grace." "We're going to have to make room for a shipment of llamas arriving next week." "Llamas?" "Lloyd the llama, eleven inches tall, shipping weight two pounds, price:" "Five ninety-five." "Lloyd the llama?" "I'm sorry, Joan, but there's an outside call for you I felt might be important." "A Dr. chambers?" "Oh, yes." "Uh, grace, will you stay with Billy for a few minutes?" "I'll be right back." "Sure, I'd love to." "All right, Billy, let 'er go." "Hello, Dr. chambers?" "Yes, Joan." "Is there anything wrong?" "Now why is it that everyone thinks a doctor is always the bearer of bad tidings?" "I'm sorry." "The reason I called, we just got the results of Davy's last tests from the laboratory." "I'd like to go over them with you." "Could you drop by the office?" "Say, during your lunch hour?" "Of course, uh, how 'bout one o'clock?" "One o'clock will be fine." "I'll see you then." "Thank you, doctor, goodbye." "Goodbye, Joan." "Careful, careful now." "Well, I declare, I never did see such a child for always wantin' to be sittin' on folkes lap." "Glady?" "Huh?" "What's God like?" "What's God like?" "Well, baby, that Bible says that after God got through making' the world, he sat back and looked." "And he looked at all the mountains, rivers, green grass and the trees, and as he looked, he saw there was still something missing, as he couldn't love them and he was lonely, because God wanted someone to love," "so he made people, all the folks in the world." "Do you think he knows what I look like?" "Oh, of course, he made you too, angel." "He knows what all his little lambs look like." "Did he know I was going to be sick all the time?" "Davy, listen to your glady." "Don't you ever, ever think God made you sickly." "This world is full of sadness that man brought on himself a long, long time ago." "Why, even our blessed lord had to suffer because of it." "♪ They crucified my lord ♪" "♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪" "♪ they crucified my lord ♪" "♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪" "♪ not a word ♪" "♪" "♪ not a word ♪" "♪" "♪ not a word ♪" "♪" "♪ he bowed his head and died ♪" "♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪" "♪ he bowed his head and died ♪" "♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪" "♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪" "♪ not a word ♪" "♪" "♪ not a word ♪" "♪" "♪ not a word ♪" "I wish I could say there was some definite indication of promise, Joan." "In these congenital heart cases, we just have to be patient." "At least we know time is on our side." "It's just that by now we'd hoped there'd be some sign of progress..." "Some small sign." "How can they know so much about so many other diseases and so little about this one!" "Joan, I know how you and hal feel." "Davy's been much more than just another patient to me, but heart cases are always complex." "In many ways, unpredictable." "Doctors aren't God, Joan." "In a sense, most of what we know has been passed on to us." "Yes, of course, I'm sorry." "I want to start Davy on a new prescription." "It's liquid, cherry flavored." "He'll need a teaspoonful before each meal." "You know, sometimes I think we ought to have a symbol for prayer to put on these prescriptions." "I'll see the boy Wednesday night." "Give my best to hal, will you?" "Yes, of course." "Thank you, doctor." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "♪" "[Doctor voiceover] I wish I could say there were definite indications of progress..." "Doctors aren't God, Joan..." "You know, sometimes I think we ought to have a symbol for prayer to put on these prescriptions." "A symbol for prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer prayer, prayer..." "♪" "♪" "♪" "♪" "[Sounds of bullets ricocheting]" "Hey!" "Where do I park my horse, pardner?" "Hi, mom!" "Miss, Joan, you're home mighty early!" "Don't let me disturb you two." "Isn't that just a little loud?" "It's them Indians, hoopin' and hollerin' and carrying' on." "This is the good part, mom." "Pretty soon the soldiers'll come over the hill and make the Indians retreat." "David foster, have you seen this picture before?" "Sure, but glady wants to watch it." "Child, how can you say a thing like that to your mama?" "You know I'm just here to keep you company!" "[Laughs]" "Well, since I'm home early," "I guess I'll start Davy's supper." "I'll give you a hand." "♪ [Music plays] ♪" "Gladys, you know that church on the Avenue?" "The one near the toy store?" "The one that has a sign out in front inviting people to come in and..." "And pray." "The one with the big front doors that's always open." "I stopped there on the way back from the doctor's office." "The last time I was inside a church was before Davy was born." "Hal and I went together for easter." "Or was it Christmas?" "Anyway, today I sat there for the longest time." "I saw people come in with that "tight" expression most of us wear these days, and then go out looking..." "Confident, and at peace." "Sort of as if they'd tapped a source of strength outside of themselves." "But that's the way prayer works for folks, darlin'." "But I couldn't bring myself to try." "Maybe it's because I haven't had anything to do with religion for so long." "Why should God suddenly be interested in me?" "Angel, if the good lord treated us the way we treat him, there'd be mighty few christians around." "You see, he already knows how much we need him, but he's got to wait until we know it, and ready to do something about it!" "Miss Joan, why don't you and Mr. hal come some night to the Madison square garden?" "That man of God, Billy Graham, says these things so much better than I do." "And it's wonderful, wonderful how every night more and more people are getting on speaking' terms with the lord." "Hal would never go." "Well, every once in a while, cliff barrows, our choir director, asks me to sing a solo." "In fact, I'll be doing one tonight." "Do you think you could get Mr. hal to come and hear me sing?" "That's a wonderful idea!" "I'll give it a try!" "Honey, I just can't spare the time." "I've got to get the roughs on this new campaign ready by tomorrow morning." "Now, Greg Johnson practically said that if I can steer things right on this one, the sky's the limit." "There's no reason why you can't go." "After all, we ought to show Gladys we're proud of her." "Are you sure you wouldn't mind?" "Oh, not at all." "Hardly my idea of a night on the town, but at least it'd be a change for you." "After hearing doc chambers say the same old things we have been hearing for the last four years, you're entitled to a night out." "He added one new note..." "Hmm?" "Just as I was leaving the office, he, he hinted that we might try prayer." "You're kidding?" "No, after reminding me that doctors aren't God." "Well, that tears it!" "When they can't come up with any answers, they start with a "prayer bit."" "That isn't it at all, hal." "Of course that's it!" "He knew you'd grab at anything." "Oh, darling, do you think I want you to be hurt?" "Any more than you are now?" "Don't you think I know what he's doing?" "Trying to raise false hopes with a gimmick of some kind?" "Is that all prayer is to you?" "A gimmick?" "I've never gone for religion and I'm not starting now, just because things are getting a little tight." "I'll put Davy to bed before I go." "You're going to have to start getting to sleep earlier, young man!" "Can't, I'd miss captain jinx's show." "And that would be a catastrophe." "[Mumbling] A what?" "A catastrophe, big trouble!" "Hmm." "Is your throat sore, Davy?" "Mmm..." "A little?" "[Mumbles]" "What did you say?" "I said, a little, when I swallow." "I thought so." "It doesn't hurt that much!" "We take no chances." "And now, to bed we go, okay?" "Okay." "Mommy's going to hear glady sing with that big choir you're always talking about." "Tonight?" "Uh-huh." "Daddy's got some important work to do, so he'll stay here with you." "Wish I could go with you." "I'll tell you all about it tomorrow, okay?" "Okay." "Good night, mom." "Good night, darling." "See you in the morning." "See you in the morning." "Hal..." "If there's anything I can do to help" "I'd be glad to stay." "You just catch Gladys' big moment, but be sure to duck out before that fire and brimstone falls!" "I love you, very much." "Now there's a line that tops anything I've written today." "[George Beverly shea singing]" "♪ Then one day I met my savior ♪" "♪ met him in the twilight dim ♪" "♪ joy o'erwhelmed my soul and sorrow vanished ♪" "♪ and I'm happy since his love came in ♪" "♪ the years I spent in useless pleasure ♪" "♪ the hours I lived in idle play ♪" "♪ seemed worthless and my heart was breaking ♪" "♪ I longed to know a better way ♪" "♪" "♪ then one day I met my savior ♪" "♪ met him in the twilight dim ♪" "♪ joy o'erwhelmed my soul and sorrow vanished ♪" "♪ and I'm happy since his love came in ♪" "♪" "♪" "♪ I sing because I'm happy ♪" "♪ I sing because I'm free ♪" "♪ for his eye is on the sparrow ♪" "♪ and I know he watches me ♪" "♪ why should I feel discouraged?" "♪" "♪ Or why should the shadows come?" "♪" "♪ Why should my heart be lonely?" "♪" "♪ Away from heaven and home?" "♪" "♪ When Jesus is my portion ♪" "♪ my constant friend is he ♪" "♪ my constant friend is he ♪" "♪ for his eye is on the sparrow ♪" "♪ and I know he watches me ♪" "♪ and I know he watches me ♪" "♪ his eye is on the sparrow ♪" "♪ his eye is on the sparrow ♪" "♪ and I know he watches me ♪" "♪ and I know he watches me ♪" "♪ so I sing ♪" "♪ because I'm happy ♪" "♪ o yes, I sing ♪" "♪ because I'm free ♪" "♪ for his eye is on ♪" "♪ all the sparrows ♪" "♪ and children ♪" "♪ I know, how I know ♪" "♪ that he watches we ♪" "(Joan) So this is what Gladys meant this afternoon in the apartment." "(Gladys) Angel, if the good lord treated us the way we treat him, there'd be mighty few christians around." "You see, he already knows how much we need him, but he's got to wait until we know it, and ready to do something about it!" "Miss Joan, why don't you and Mr. hal come some night to the Madison square garden?" "That man of God, Billy Graham, says these things so much better than I do." "(Billy Graham) Wouldn't you like to have all the old things forgiven and gone and become a new creature, a new person tonight?" "Well, that's exactly what Paul said could happen to you." "That's called the new birth, it's regeneration, it's transformation, it's being born again." "In ephesians he speaks of it as being quickened, or being made alive from the dead!" "You're spiritually dead!" "Now you have life!" "It's very much like this plant." "I can take some scissors and clip it, and lay it on the floor." "It still has lovely color, it still looks like a plant, but it's dead." "There's no sap in it, and soon it will wither and die and that's the way many of you are." "You're separated from God, there's no spiritual life in you, and you need to be grafted back into God's life and become a partaker of the life of God so that spiritual life flows through your soul," "and heart and mind, and your whole spirit, until you become a new creation in Christ Jesus." "That can happen to you tonight." "You can become a partaker of God's nature." "The very nature of God!" "And old things will pass away." "You say, "well, how do you get the new birth?" ""I want it, I need it, i need a new life!" ""I need a change!" ""I need my sins forgiven!"" ""I want this peace and this joy that he gives."" "Now wait a minute, don't misunderstand me." "It doesn't mean that when you come to Christ you have no more problems, no more burdens, no more sorrows." "You may have more troubles, more problems, more difficulties than ever before." "Because you see, the Christian comes into conflict with the society 'round about him." "With all the evil, all the compromises, all the temptations 'round about you, they come in upon you and the Christian must walk with God in the middle of a wicked and a perverse generation, and that brings him into conflict," "and sometimes it causes suffering and persecution and it may cause death!" "God says, I'm willing to forgive your sins." "I sent my son." "I love you, I love you," "I love you with an everlasting love." "I don't care what you've done." "I don't care what your sins are." "How much you're a hypocrite." "I don't care what you've done, i love you, but, first, you must repent of sin, repent." "That means that you acknowledge that you're a sinner." "I think you've done that tonight in your own heart." "You already know that you've sinned against him." "But that's not all of repentance." "There must be a willingness to turn from sin." "I said a "willingness"" "because you can't turn from your sins." "There's not a person in this crowd that can turn from their sins." "You don't have the power to, you don't have the strength to." "But you must be willing." "You come to that point and you say," ""oh, God, I'm willing!"" "And when you say "I'm willing"" "he gives you the strength and the power to turn!" "And you start in a new direction." "That's what repentance means." "Secondly, by faith, you must receive Christ into your heart." "By faith, I said!" "You may never understand it intellectually." "You don't have to." "Jesus, tonight, is willing to touch your life, change your life, if you're willing to surrender your will, and your personality and your life in total to him." "I'm going to ask you to do it tonight." "Young men, young women, fathers, mothers, people of all walks of life," "I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat, if there's a doubt in your life that you're ready to meet God." "I'm asking you to get up out of your seat and come and stand quietly here and say tonight, I give my life to the savior." "I'm going to trust him from this moment on." "I'm going to follow him and serve him." "While our heads are bowed, and people are already coming from everywhere, you come." "Don't you let distance back here keep you from Christ." "You come." "Way back in that back balcony, back in there, you come." "This is your moment with Christ." "You may never have an hour like this again." "Now is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation." "You come, right now, quickly, from everywhere." "Hundreds of you, while the choir sings softly, just as I am, without one plea, o lamb of God, I come, you come right now." "♪ Just as I am without one plea ♪" "That's it, quickly, from everywhere." "Get up out of your seats and come on!" "♪ But that thy blood was shed for me ♪" "♪ and that thou bidst me, come to thee ♪" "♪ and that thou bidst me, come to thee ♪" "♪ o lamb of God, I come ♪" "♪ I come ♪" "♪ just as I am and waiting not ♪" "♪ to rid my soul of one dark blot ♪" "♪ to rid my soul of one dark blot ♪" "♪ to thee whose blood can cleanse each spot ♪" "♪ to thee whose blood can cleanse each spot ♪" "♪ o lamb of God, I come ♪" "♪ I come ♪" "♪" "♪" "♪" "(Hal) Hi, honey!" "How'd it go?" "It was wonderful, hal!" "Gladys do us proud?" "Oh, yes." "I wish you could've been there." "Hal, couldn't you stop for a couple of minutes?" "I want to tell you about it." "Honey, do you mind?" "I'm onto something here and I kinda like to stay right with it." "You want some fresh coffee?" "No, thanks." "Must've had about ten cups already." "Well, I guess I'll go in to bed then..." "Good night." "I'll be along in a while." "[Phone rings]" "Foster speaking." "Oh, put her on." "Hello, darling." "Where were you when I called twenty minutes ago?" "Oh..." "Well, actually yes." "The 15th floor went for my ideas, they've given me the green light to write the whole pioneer campaign!" "Now, honey, one of the executives from pioneer's home office is in town with his wife and I thought it would be very strategic if we could invite them out to the apartment for cocktails." "[No audio]" "Well, honey, I, uh..." "I've invited them tonight." "[No audio]" "Well, I know it's short notice..." "But look, it's a wonderful way to get to one of pioneer's top men!" "[No audio]" "I know that, but can't you get Gladys to give you a hand?" "Well, let's see..." "There's the client," "Mr. Carlson and his wife," "I had to ask Greg and his wife, and I'll get bill to come, for laughs!" "Yeah, of course, Alice, too." "Well, that'll be only eight of us, okay?" "Oh, thanks, darling." "It'll pay off, I'm sure of it." "(Man) You're so right, hal," "I've never known it to fail." "Ah..." "Hors d'oeuvres, Mr. Carlson?" "Why, yes, thank you." "Greg?" "Yes, thank you!" "Is this lovely person the source of your inspiration, foster?" ""Behind every successful man," right, hal?" "Ten short years." "[Laughter]" "Ah, seriously though," "I have one of the most beautiful wives in the country, and I only hope she stays there." "[Laughter]" "You know, I went driving with her the other day." "She held out her arm, gave all three signals and went straight up!" "[Laughter]" "I'm sorry, Joan," "I've been glaring at him all evening but..." "Clearly a case of overexposure, she knows my material." "Mrs. Carlson?" "Oh, my dear, I've already had..." "Three." "Oh, but they're so small!" "Well, if you insist." "[Chuckling]" "Well, uh, isn't that a matter for the motivation research department?" "They're already at work on it." "Kay?" "Thank you." "Do you get into New York very often, Mrs. Carlson?" "Oh, no, Alfred lets me tag along once or twice a year but I'd rather not come too often." "You see, this way I look forward to the trip as something special." "New York is so Cosmopolitan." "Alfred says" "I always act just like a tourist." "But we live in the suburbs and I've always thought of our community as being very much "average America."" "Alfred always winces when he hears me say that, but I'm really rather proud of the idea." "I don't see anything wrong with being a part of" ""average America," do you?" "Now you take for example one of the big TV shows." "Will you excuse me a moment?" "Who give it a good trendex?" "We do!" ""Average America."" "And you advertising people work day and night trying to get us to do this and buy that, why?" "Because we're important, that's why!" "And when you get right down to it, we average Americans run everything!" "Oh..." "Excuse me." "How's everything goin', honey?" "Well, we're holding our own so far, glady." "I don't know how to thank you for giving up your evening to help us like this." "That's what friends are for, sugar!" "But what bothers me is, how folks can fool themselves into calling tidbits like this food." "They're just teasin' their stomachs!" "[Chuckling]" "There's nobody funnier than people, glady." "You know that." "Some people, sugar." "'Cause me and Davy's playin' it safe and gonna fortify ourselves with some nice hot chocolate." "Oh, glady, you're priceless." "Well, someone has done an outstanding publicity job." "The whole town seems to be aware of the crusade." "Only this afternoon I ran into a woman who was passing out tickets in Times Square!" "That's a well organized campaign, all right." "Real saturation." "But I don't really see how they can inject any kind of religious element in such a, well, a spectacle." "I read somewhere they're using two or three thousand voices in just the chorus." "Well, you can't help admiring the man." "He has a fool-proof product and he knows how to sell it." "(Hal) Well, how can he miss?" "The script is a natural." "A chapter and verse recital of the world in torment, the age of the h-bomb, the moral flaws of mankind." "(Alice) I don't know." "At times I've felt as though my life lacked something." "Maybe it's religion." "But about this crusade, Alice." "Surely it can't expect the confidence of intelligent people." "Well, I'm afraid that most of his followers are the unstable sort." "You mark my words!" "In six months' time, everyone will wonder what all the shouting was about." "Well, I think we ought to have an opinion from our charming hostess." "Mrs. foster, what do you think of this crusade business?" "Well, honey?" "Well, all of your comments sound so familiar." "Whenever the subject of religion has come up," "I've always drawn the same conclusions." "But last night, I went to the garden." "And somehow, my conclusions didn't ring true." "I've always prided myself on the ability to arrive at most answers through a logical, analytical method." "But last night," "I discovered I was completely ignorant about, about what christianity really is." "I knew I'd been groping for something but, well, like Alice." "I didn't know what it was until Mr. Graham began to speak." "It's funny, I can't even remember much about what he said except that as he talked," "I, I had a strange feeling of need..." "Need for a personal savior." "I went forward." "I found myself joining others who were accepting Christ." "Oh, darling, I," "I know this comes as a complete surprise to you." "I wanted to tell you about it last night but, somehow it didn't work out, and there hasn't been any time since." "I hope I haven't offended anyone." "Why, of course not." "Oh, my dear, don't ever think such a thing." "[Clears throat]" "Say, I hadn't noticed, it's getting rather late." "I've made reservations for dinner, dear." "I guess we'd, uh, better be going?" "Yes." "Goodbye, hal." "Thank you, Joan." "Good night, Joan." "Good night, Greg." "Thank you for inviting us." "Hal, see you at the office in the morning." "Good night." "You're a charming hostess, Mrs. foster." "Thank you, Mr. Carlson." "It was a wonderful evening, Joan." "Quite a gal you got there, chum." "You know, it wasn't easy saying what she did in front of those frustrated intellects." "Yeah..." "Good night." "Oh, darling, I'd give anything if it hadn't happened like this." "Last night you gave away your sanity." "Tonight you casually tossed away my future with the agency." "What a performance!" "I just stood there and you cut the ground right out from under me!" "Tomorrow it'll be all over town:" ""Ad man's wife hits sawdust trail."" "I wanted so desperately to tell you about it last night but you..." "Oh, well, it doesn't matter now." "It sure doesn't!" "Please, hal, listen to me." "Let me tell you what really happened." "I want to share it with you." "I know it's the answer for your lives." "Well, if that doesn't cork it!" "First you make a fool out of yourself, and now you think you're going to convert me!" "Well, save your breath, honey." "Because I'm no sucker for this salvation bit!" "What makes you think you're so self-sufficient?" "That you don't need anything or anybody but the great hal foster to depend on!" "Oh, darling, I didn't just stop thinking." "Don't you see, hal, you're rejecting God without ever having tried him?" "I know why you're doing this." "It's that "prayer prescription" line, isn't it?" "You've let yourself be duped into believing that now you've got a direct line to the almighty!" "Why, you think you can even pray Davy right out of bed." "No..." "I didn't have nerve enough to ask for anything for Davy." "I only asked God to help me understand," "to let me reach out and find him." "And he was there, that's all." "What more can I say, hal?" "You're the one that's so good with words." "I only know what I feel!" "All right." "All right, here it is, and get it straight." "I don't want any part of a God that lets my son live just one step out of his grave." "[Door slams]" "[Keys clicking]" "♪" "♪" "♪" "Why does dad have to work all the time, mom?" "I miss him." "So do I, Davy." "But he's finishing up a big job right now." "We'll have him back, soon." "I'm afraid I don't have an appointment." "Oh, hal..." "Oh, darling." "Where should I begin to say I'm sorry?" "Oh, it isn't important." "Just hold me, hold me close." "Honey, I, I'd planned a big buildup about the news, but if I don't tell you right now, I'll explode." "Greg presented my copy to the old man this morning, and he went for it, lock, stock and barrel." "Oh, hal, how wonderful!" "That's just the half of it." "Greg moved upstairs, and well, you're now looking at Pratt and noble's new copy director." "Oh, no!" "But I've saved the best to last." "Five thousand a year raise!" "Oh, I just can't believe it!" "Oh, darling, you've earned it." "You've worked so terribly hard." "It wasn't easy for you either." "But now there's a way out from all the things that have been pushing in on us." "We don't have any problems that a few extra bucks won't solve." "That means a real specialist for Davy, you know, the one Dr. chambers told us about from Europe?" "Honey, I've given a lot of thought to this religion business." "I know you went for it as sort of a defense mechanism, but, well, now, with the raise and all, we'll be able to get out from under the load." "Hal..." "Oh, hal, please don't believe that I turned to God just because we were struggling." "I know it may look like that, but a day-by-day faith is the one element that was always lacking in our lives." "I missed you so much." "These past weeks have been a nightmare for me." "[Phone rings]" "I'm sorry..." "Hello, Joan foster speaking." "What is it?" "What's wrong, Gladys?" "Davy, he's..." "Gladys can't wake him!" "Gladys, this is Mr. foster." "Did you call an ambulance?" "Which hospital?" "Joan and I'll meet you there." "♪" "♪" "What's happening, doc?" "Why are you keeping us in the dark?" "I'm sorry." "Can't we see him for just a minute?" "Davy's being prepared for surgery." "Dr. houser's in charge." "There's none better." "Everything that's humanly possible is being done for the boy." "With God's help, perhaps we..." "Skip the stock answers, doc!" "My son's life is in your hands, and don't you forget it!" "Hal!" "Sorry." "Hal is so..." "Of course, he is." "I'll let you know the minute there's any change." "Thank you, doctor." "♪" "[Singing a cappella] ♪ sometimes I feel like a motherless child ♪" "[Music begins]" "♪ Sometimes I feel ♪" "♪ like a motherless child ♪" "♪" "♪ sometimes I feel ♪" "♪ like a motherless child ♪" "♪" "♪ a long way from home ♪" "♪" "♪ such a long ♪" "♪ way ♪" "♪ from home ♪" "♪" "♪" "[Heart beating]" "[Heart beat slows and stops]" "No..." "No." "Oh, God, God, God don't let him die." "Don't let him die." "[Sobbing]" "Not for me..." "For him!" "Please, God..." "Please, please..." "[Sobbing]" "[Sobbing]" "Davy's in fine shape!" "[Sobbing]" "He sailed through the operation like a veteran." "Thank you, heavenly father, thank you!" "Dr. hauser did some work on a faulty heart valve which may, in time, allow Davy to lead a normal life." "Oh, when can we see him?" "He won't be fully awake until late this afternoon." "Why don't you get some rest and come back then?" "Doc?" "There's no words for what we really feel." "Just get some rest." "You know, the two of you look terrible." "I'll see you later on." "Miss Joan, don't you think we oughta give thanks to the lord for how grateful we feel?" "Oh, hal, could we?" "For just a minute?" "We really ought to give thanks to God..." "Look, uh, you two, uh, go right ahead," "I've got to get home and get cleaned up before I check in at the office." "Office?" "You were always honest, hal." "I took pride in that." "It was my one hope, that your honest doubting would someday bring you to God." "A few minutes ago, when it looked as if we might be losing Davy, you prayed!" "But now everything's going to be all right, so you'll take over from here." "Look, Joan," "I'm being as honest as I know how." "I just don't feel anything." "The great hal foster, still playing games with God." "Let him go, honey, that boy's got to make his way alone." "[Sobbing]" "Can I send out for a sandwich or something, Mr. foster?" "What's the matter, Tony?" "You worried about me?" "No, I just thought maybe you'd like something solid, since you're going to your office." "Today is "liquid refreshment," Tony." "This is just to make sure that I'm socked in tight." "Everything's gonna be a little hazy." "Ya know what I mean?" "I could get you a cup of coffee." "It'd just take a second." "You're a worrier, Tony." "You'll be old before your time." "Mr. foster!" "As head of this department, can I please request top billing on that new sign out there?" "Hi, bill." "Man, don't you ever relax?" "Aw, I thought I'd clean out my desk before Monday." "What's your story?" "As a matter of fact, I was looking for you." "Joan called and told us about Davy." "Alice and I were sure glad to hear about it." "Appreciate it, bill." "Yeah, Joan seemed to feel that God picked up the tab on this one." "Now what is that supposed to mean?" "You're still balancing that chip on your shoulder, aren't you?" "Look, bill, thanks for the kind words, but I'm snowed right now." "You know, you're a real puzzlement to me." "What do you want, anyway, hal?" "The old man's kicking up his heels over the way you shaped up the pioneer campaign." "Everyone around here's pegged you for a "comer."" "Married to a beautiful woman, son just pulled through a crisis, yet you're playing it like you're going down for the third time." "I heard long-playing records were here to stay!" "You're a real scream." "But you're gonna get the whole spiel anyway, pal!" "'Cause it just about boils down to this, doesn't it?" "You just can't buy the idea that maybe Joan's latched on to something." "Maybe she's latched on to something really important, so she upset a lot of your pet theories about religion and old hal just can't stand to have his theories upset." "So what am I?" "Some kind of a monster because I can't swallow it?" "Are you going to stand there and tell me that you've never questioned any of it?" "Plenty of times." "Well, all right, then!" "I'm also willing to admit" "I've never really looked into it, either." "Say, you didn't go with Joan the other night, did you?" "You're getting funnier by the minute, hal." "But since we're on the subject, who decided we have to muddle through life without any help from something, or someone besides ourselves?" "You?" "Me?" "Look, hal, I guess the only thing I'm trying to say is that maybe it'd be different if we could just come to the place where we could close our mouths and open our minds." "Hal, come on, let's get outta here." "After that sermon, I'll have to buy you a drink." "[Laughter]" "This place really gets noisy on Saturday night, huh, Tony?" "Yeah, well, I'll turn on the television, that usually quiets them down." "Oh, this has gotta be quick." "I'm due at the hospital." "(Billy Graham on television)" "I believe we need a spiritual revolution in America." "We need a revolt against materialism." "A revolt against crime!" "A revolt against the emphasis on sex." "A revolt against the sins and the wickedness in high places." "You know, there's a showman." "You sharpies from Madison Avenue could learn a few things from him!" "What's the matter, isn't como on?" "Oh, yeah, sure." "No, wait a minute, leave it on." "We've not come to put on a show or an entertainment." "We believe that there are many people here tonight that have hungry hearts." "All your life you've been searching for peace, joy, happiness, forgiveness." "That's the reason that a lot of people that have reached the top find no peace at the top." "They find no joy at the top." "They take their tranquillizing pills and their sleeping pills and their dexedrine tablets and their aspirins thrown in between, because money and fame and fortune have not brought them peace of soul!" "Why is that?" "Because you were made in the image of God and without God you can find no peace in this life." "Have you ever wondered why we cannot solve the problems of the world?" "Our greatest intellectuals are always gathering in conferences trying to solve the problems of the world, and they've been wrestling with them for hundreds and even thousands of years." "In the last three thousand years we've only had 277 years of peace." "There is always war, there's always fighting." "There's always tension and stress in the world." "There's tension and stress in your own life." "I want to tell you before you leave Madison square garden this night, you can find everything that you've been searching for in Christ." "He can bring that inward deepest peace to your soul." "There's a little voice speaking to you now and even while I'm talking that little voice is saying, that's what I need, i need Christ," "I need God." "Your pride begins to speak up and argue and debate, and a thousand other voices speak but there's still the undertone of that little voice that says this is right." "That's true, I need God." "I'm going to ask you to surrender to that little voice because that little voice is the voice of the spirit of God, and I'm going to ask you to do something that I've seen people do all over the world." "I'm sorry, Mr. foster, but that preaching makes the customers uncomfortable." "It's no good for business." "Okay, Tony, give 'em what they want." "No, you don't, this one's on me." "Thanks, bill." "Well, I gotta head for the hospital, and uh, thanks for coming by the office." "I really mean that." "Everything all right, hal?" "Sure..." "See ya, bill." "♪" "♪" "[Joan voiceover] You were always honest, hal." "I took pride in that." "It was my one hope, that your honest doubting would someday bring you to God." "Glady's right here, honey." "Takes more than an old operation to keep me away, and I'm going to be here with you every day, just like always." "That's good." "[Door opens]" "Hi, son." "Hi, dad." "You took an awful long time gettin' here." "Sorry, Davy." "I've been an awful long time doin' a lot of things, but I'm gonna change that..." "With God's help." "Hal." "I'll need so much help." "I don't even know how to take the first step." "You've already taken it, darling." "God only asks that we reach out to him." "You've done that!" "He'll do the rest." "♪ Then God's love will make his heart new. ♪" "♪ Then God's love will make his heart new. ♪"