The Bible Speaks to You May 26, 1962 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the weekend of May 18-20 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You," heard internationally over more than 700 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 7 - Don't "Label" Yourself or Others

HOST: How often we tend to label the other fellow according to his national or economic background or his personal characteristics! Such attitudes are like barbed-wire barriers of misunderstanding, dividing people—and even nations— from one another!

Sometimes we even label ourselves. We've all heard people say: "I never can remember a thing," or, "My disposition is always bad in the morning." By accepting such thoughts about ourselves, we build up limitations that fence us in.

I came across an article in the magazine Think, which described such labels as "stereotypes." It spoke of the labels people sometimes attach to mothers-in-law or teen-agers or women drivers, and then it said: "Stereotypes, in other words, are a kind of gossip about the world, a gossip that makes us prejudge people before we ever lay eyes on them. Hence it is not surprising that stereotypes have something to do with the dark world of prejudice. Explore most prejudices (note that the word means prejudgment) and you will find a cruel stereotype at its core."

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