WHERE unlimited banking is permitted geographically, many major banking institutions in the United States are growing by virtue of the establishment of branches in outlying districts. These new branches, which make the banks' services more accessible to their customers, are recognized as being definitely a part of the parent banks. No one would think of these smaller banks as weaker or less effective because of their smallness.
This illustration points up the relationship between The Mother Church and its branches. Sometimes a member may think of his branch church as being in too remote a location or even as having too few members to function with the vitality of some larger branch. But this is no more true than is the belief that the small branch bank is relatively weaker by reason of its size. As a matter of fact, each has the full strength of the parent bank.
Some years ago, when the edifice of the branch church of which I am a member was completed, a visitor remarked to me, "What a beautiful church this is!"
