The Hundred per center! - page 47

The Rotary Balita no. 796 (May 10, 1956)

Everyone in the club knew him as a hundred-per-cent attender. For twenty-seven years he had attended without missing a meeting. Every club member knew this and he was pointed out to visitors as the man. who had attended consecutively and without missing - fourteen hundred meetings. But what most members of that club didn't know was... That it was he who had first suggested sending Jimmie Brown to the specialist to have a serious eye defect corrected, and that he had made the principal financial contribution. And that the family up on the hill who had been dispossessed had been helped by him until they were back on their feet. And when the boys' soft-ball team lost their playing field, he "found" a vacant lot for them. And then that winter when tragedy descended upon the Jones woman and her two small girls, it was he who with a few quiet words spoken here and there amongst a few kindred spirits started something that opened up an entirely new world of faith for these stricken ones. It would be easy to write more about this member. For instance, he was never found at the head of the parade. sidelines. He was always somewhere on the And when the trumpets were sounding and the cymbals clanging, he slipped down a side street and helped someone. The club records list him as a hundred-per-center for twenty-seven years, that's all, but... It was of him that a Great Teacher once spoke when He said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto Me."