The Bible Speaks to You May 16, 1964 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the week of May 8-14 in the radio series, " The Bible Speaks to You," heard internationally over more than 850 stations. This is one of the weekly programs prepared and produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 110 - Building a Happy Marriage

HOST: Few words are more cherished than the word "home." And yet the number of broken and unhappy homes shows that building and maintaining a happy marriage is to many people one of the great challenges of our time.

INTERVIEWER: In his book "The Importance of Being Imperfect" John Robert Clarke says: "Our 800,000 divorces annually, to say nothing of the divorces in spirit of those who go on living together from weariness, propriety, or for the sake of the children, suggest the enormous gulf that exists today between the dream of togetherness and the actual state of disillusioned aloneness." (Copyright, 1961, by John Robert Clarke. David McKay Company, Inc., New York, N. Y.)

Is there something a couple can do to prevent this "state of disillusioned aloneness"? Is there something they can do to keep their marriage happy? SPEAKER: I would say that there is a great deal they can do and that the answer to your question is to be found in the teaching of the Bible. Perhaps we can take just one phase of this subject, the need for giving.

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