Afro American Courier

What People Say.

By
MISS CLEOPATRA CAMPBELL.

DR. L. T. MILLER,
President and Medical Director.

It is human nature for us to be concerned about what people say of us whether it is good or bad. Often this desire to know what opinion people have of us is so great that we even ask, "What do they say about me." To my belief, it is not too much curiosity to want to know what is being said of oneself. It does not matter how independent one is or how much influence one may have, public opinion has its weight. Even Christ, the only perfect man that ever lived, wanted to know what the people said of Him and we remember His words to His disciples: "Whom do men say I am?"

It may be well also, to keep in mind that people are saying something about us and since it is characteristic of people to talk about people, it is all the more necessary that we so live that what they say is what they would want to hear of themselves.

I am sure Dr. L. T. Miller has heard some of the things people say of him, but I doubt whether he knows that practically everybody is saying something about him. It is a common occurrence to hear people on the street corners discussing him. As a physician, they say there is none better, that if he cannot cure, it is needless to seek medical aid elsewhere. But, he is not only discussed because of his medical skill but as a man. At the bottom of his attainments and his success as a physician, they say, he is unselfish, kind, considerate, tolerant, approachable: strangers say, "Show me Dr. Miller. I have heard so much talk of him."

Dr. Miller is one of the few persons whose name hangs on the highways and gateposts as a symbol of wholesomeness, inspiration and earthly salvation. He is one of the few persons who is being talked about by all classes of people in one language—words of praise. He is one of the few persons who is being talked about as good without hearing that characteristic "But." There seems to be no exceptions where his merits are discussed.

He is one of the few persons who is being talked about both behind doors and publicly without hearing that same advice, "Don't tell anybody I told you." People who talk about Dr. Miller seem to want the world to know it. He has no need to worry about what people are saying about him and when we learn to live a life of worth and service, we won't mind what people say.