Portal Page Text Object

I'm not assigning my text object with a starting value. I have a script within the Portal Page that parses text out of an array and then am using that to try to update my text object but the text isn't displaying on the page.

var txtObj=page.objects["text1"]
txtObj.text="My new text"

If I alert (txtObj.text) is comes back with "My new text" but won't display on my page.

I'm stuck on what to do (and Lawson was no help).