About twenty years ago the church where I was pastoring outgrew its premises. We decided that we would abandon the traditional type building and purchase a truck terminal that happened to be for sale.
The owner of the building eventually sold us the place on a handshake and five months later we moved in.
I got to know this man very well. He was a christian and a multi-millionaire.
By hard-work, honest dealing and true business sense he founded the Harkema Trucking company which, in it's day, was the largest in Canada.
One day Sid told me a story of how he transacted a sale with the owner of the leading trucking company in America, another multi-millionaire.
This man told Sid that he drove to the meeting in Ohio in his Ford half ton truck. Then he asked Sid a question:
"When do whales get harpooned? He supplied his own answer.
"When they get to the surface and start spouting off."
Sid never forgot that comment from one of the world's richest men.
To be around Sid was to be around a humble, unassuming individual who, for all his wealth, never spouted off, gave generously to God's work and who drove A HALF TON TRUCK!
Jubilate.
Ian
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