The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-01-16
GRENADA BANKS ANNUAL GATHERING.
One Hundred and Fifty People Come from the Twelve
Branch Banks to Plan for the Year.
Banks Assets Over Three Million DS Deposits Over Two Million Dollars
Bishop Gao Makes Able Address, Reception and Banquet for
Visitors at Grenada College.

The gathering hosts who place their
earnings and surplus in the Grenada
Bank and its branches serve as a re-
minder that Father Time is ever on
duty. He keeps the cycle of the ages
rolling along. Others may take vaca-
tions, they may slumber and sleep, but
he takes no rest. The creed, the mot
to of the Grenada Bank is not unlike
the lesson that Time teaches. .
What is true today of Time is not
different from what it has been for all
the ages. When the King Of the Uni
verse said "Let there be light" and
when the words from His Holy lips
spoke the planets and every living crea-
ture into existence, it was then that
Father Time was placed on duty and
he has been actively engaged, never
relieved from duty, ever since.
The record of the Grenada Bank tells
the same truthful story Of it. Father
Time is moving creature. There is
no inertia, no inactivity about him. HUI
manity, for it's own convenience and
because it could not test or measure
what is passing in any other way. has
placed seconds, minutes, hours, days
and weeks, months and years as mark
ing points-these serve to tell what is
being done and how many times the
same point has been passed. There is
no reckoning point more important in
north Mississippi than the January
gathering Of the stockholders, deposi-
tors, directors and officers of the Gren.
ada Bank.
Standing upon the Mount of OBJ
servation and with the eye of reason
and information viewing the expert.
ences of the dim past, one will see that
the Scriptures teach the first banking
lessons. Acting upon the advice OF Jo
seph, who was but repeating the voice
of Him who speaks from the clouds, th'
Egyptians, in the days of Pharoah
gathered up from every corner of thei
dominions and laid aside for the cominl
days-for the days when the storms o.
adversity should sweep about them
These people hearkened unto wise ad
monitions, and what they did save
them from wreck, from starvation an
! famine in the seven years that fol
lowed. This is one of the beautiful les
sons of the Bible. This same idea
7 very beautifully and practically typ
! fed in what the Grenada Bank ha
J done, in the confidence reposed in thi
e institution and in what the people 9
r, all this section have committed to tn
2 care and custody of this Organization
one whose distinction and worth.
d known not IN this county alone. bu
n thruout the state and in the gres
e money centers of the nation. The s'
e cred book is the authority for thos
d bound together by one tie. animated
n one purpose, battling for the same goa
: assembling themselves for conferent
l. for, counsel and for exchange of idea
h No great military leader ever unde
;, took campaign that was crowned vii
II success without calling a counc
of those upon whom he must depeI
n for the execution of his purposes ar
J. the achievement of results; so it
IS not only in keeping with the wisdo,
m CLEANED from the ages past that Il