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KELIGIOUS AND MORAL SOCIETIES.
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GLASGOW PROTESTANT LAYMEN'S
ASSOCIATION— Instituted 1852.
J. Blackie, jun., ex-Lord Provost ; Sir M. R. S.
Stewart, Bart., of Ardgowan ; J. Hannan, J. P. ; J.
Paterson, M.D. ; A. Dunn, Sir P. Coats, Paisley;
J. Stevenson, J. Mitchell, W. Kidstou, J. P.; J.
Campbell, Tillichewan Castle ; Bailie W. Miller, T.
Murray, A, Arrol, and Councillor Hutchison, honrj'.
presidents; Bailie Salmon, president; Capt. Jas.
Stewart and W. Kirkland, vice-presidents; A. M.
Black, 260 Stobcross Street, treasurer ; A. M. Ste-
wart, honorary secretarj- ; J. Mitchell, assistant
secretary (to whom all communications are to be
addressed at the Religious Institution Rooms, 75 St.
George's Place). General committee — R. J. Niven,
T. Paul, J. S. Wvlie, Capt. J. Stewart, W. Stewart,
W. Wills, G. Ross, J. Mitchell, E. Bell, A. Stewart,
P. Brown, W. Campbell, W. Kirkland, A. M. Black,
D. Falconer, A. M. Stewart, D. Clow, W. Dron,
and W, M'Arthur; collector and officer, A. Nichol,
112 Duke Street.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
Bailie Wilson, Messrs. G. W. Clark, W. Hunter,
W. Primrose, W. Gilchrist, and R. Westlands,
honorary directors; A. Aird, president; J. Cuth-
bert, vice-president; G. Graj', 73 South Portland
Street, treasurer; L. Gordoi;, 9 Kinning Street, and
J. Shannon, 23 Devon Street, secretaries.
The committee meets, for the transaction of
business, on the second Mondays of January, March,
May, July, September, and November, in Buchanan's
Temperance Hotel, 20 Carlton Place, at 8.15 p.m.
NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT SABBATH
SCHOOL UNION.
W. F. Salmon, president ; J. Howatt, vice-presi-
dent; VV. Smellie, treasurer; J. Andrew, secretary,
387 Duke Street ; G. Walker, J. B. Galbraith, K.
M'Arthur, J. M'Gill, G. Simpson, R. Lieper, C. S.
Alston, J. Smith, J. M'Dougall, J. Black, D. Camp-
bell, J. Henderson, M. Wotherspoon, H. Sliman,
directors.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL UNION.
Committee Rooms, 75 St. George's Place.
John Robertson of Blairbeth, president ; James
MacGill and George Hunter, vice-presidents; John
Henderson, 192 Sauchiehall Street, treasurer ;
James Richmond, 107 King's Park Place, and
William Thomson, 165 Shamrock Street, secretaries ;
with twelve directors, along with representatives
from the District Unions of the city. Directors meet
for business on third Monday of each month.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
R. R. Grant, president ; J. Pirrie and J. Neilson
Cuthbertson, vice-presidents; H. Taylor, 15 Hope
Street, treasurer ; Wm. Kerr, 42 Hope Street, con-
vener of mission committee ; A. Sloan, C. A., 106 St.
Vincent Street, secretary.
The committee consists of a representative from
each Parochial Sabbath School Society in Glasgow
and vicinitv.
SCOTTISH PERMISSIVE BILL AND TEM-
PERANCE ASSOCIATION.
This association, formed in 1858, co-operates with
the United Kingdom Alliance, and seeks through the
united efforts of moral and social reformers, the sup-
pression of the liquor traffic by the votes of the
ratepayers.
Bailie Hamilton, president ; vice-presidents. Sir
Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P., the provosts of
Inverness, and Nairn, Sir J. Murray, Bart, Philip-
haugh ; Bailie Lewis, Edinburgh ; J. D. Bryce, J. P.,
A. Trevelyan, J.P., R. Little, J.P., G. Turner, J.P.,
J. Roberton, J. P., Professor Calderwood, Professor
Kirk, &c., with 120 hon. vice-presidents and direc-
tors ; Councillor Torrens, chairman of executive ;
BailieDick, vice-chairman of executive; J. L.Selkirk,
treasurer ; R. C. Murray, hon. secretary ; R. Mackay,
secretary, 30 Hope Street, Glasgow. Official organ,
"Social Reformer," published monthly, one penny.
The income last year was £1414. There are five
agents; and nearly 1000 lectures are delivered
throughout the countrj' in the course of a year.
During the last session 24 members of Parliament
for Scotland voted in favour of the Permissive Bill,
while only 10 voted against it ; showing a clear
majority of 10 iu its favour. A stronger proof of
the progress of the association could not in the
opinion of the executive be given.
SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR THE CONVERSION
OF ISRAEL.
Mr. J. W. Gatheral, 28 Miller Street, treasurer
Rev. J. L. Aikman, D.D., secretary. Office, 75 St
George's Place.
GLASGOW WORKING MEN'S EVANGELISTIC
ASSOCIATION.
MISSION HALL, 36 SALTMAKKET.
Thomas Wetherall, President.
H. A. Long, Missionary.
The objects of the society are to preach the Gospel,
give Biblical instruction, hold educational classes on
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings in the hall.
Public lectures on Monday and Saturday evenings,
and sermon on Lord's Daj', afternoon and evening,
and the usual open air meetings during summer on
Glasgow Green.
SOCIETY FOR ERECTING ADDITIONAL
PAROCHIAL CHURCHES IN GLASGOW
AND SUBURBS.
President, Sir J. Campbell, of Stracathro ; vice-
presidents, Rev. Dr. Leishman, J. King of Levern-
holm, A. Galbraith, Sir J. Lumsden, J. A. Wright,
W. Aitken ; treasurer, J. King ; secretary, J. Ritchie,
175 Hope Street.
LADIES' AUXILIARY TO THE GLASGOW
CITY MISSION.
Mrs. George Burns, 1 P;irk Gardens, president ;
Mrs. J. S. Blyth, 73 Kew Terrace, treasurer; 112
lady collectors. Meets in Religious Institution
Rooms on the first Tuesday of February and March,
at 1 p.m., when one of the missionaries attends and
gives an account of the work done in his distiict.