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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
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SCOTTISH PERMISSIVE BILL AND TEM-
PERANCE ASSOCIATION.
Object. — The promotion of total abstinence as a
rule of life, the creation of an enlightened public
opinion in favour of the Suppression of all Traffic in
Intoxicating Liquors as beverages, and to secure,
through the united efforts of moral and social re-
formers, the passage into law of a measure framed to
eflfectnally suppress that traffic by the direct votes
of the ratepayers.
John Wilson, Esq., J P., Glasgow, president; vice-
presidents, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P.; James
Stewart, Esq., ex-M.P.; Peter M'Lagan, Esq., JI.P.;
ex-Provost Moncnr, Dundee; ex-Bailie Jamieson,
Perth; J. D. Bryce, Esq., J.P. ; Provost M'Lean,
Partick; J. Roberton, Esq., J.P. ; T. Livingstone
Learmonth, Esq , J.P.; ex-Treasurer Hamilton, J.P.;
Professor W. G. Blaikie, D.D., Edinburgh; with up-
wards of 120 hon. vice-presidents and directors;
ex-Bailie Selkirk, J.P., chairman of executive; ex-
Provost Dick, treasurer; Mr. R. A. Bird, hon. secre-
tary, R. Mackay, secretary, 112 Bath Street. Official
organ, " The Reformer," published weekly, one penny.
The income last year amounted to £3751 13s. Id.
The number of meetings addressed by representa-
tives of the Association in the course of a year ranges
from 1200 to 1500. The Association fully employs
six agents and secretary, besides agents in various
parts of the country, who are meantime partially
engaged. Scotland is divided into districts, with head-
quarters in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dum-
fries, and Peebles. The Association has increased
its Parliamentary position materially. Through its
exertions increasingly shared by kindred Associations
the result of the late general election has been to
largely increase the supporters of temperance and
prohibitory legislation in the House of Commons.
Thirty-nine Scotch members are pledged to sup-
port the Bill which Mr. M'Lagan, M.P. for Lin-
lithgowshire, has introduced into Parliament, a bill
giving the ratepayers of Scotland power to abolish
all traffic in intoxicating liquors in their respec-
tive burghs, wards of burgbs, parishes, and districts
when so minded, and the Executive have resolved to
give his measure a vigorous and sustained support. To
enable them to bring the influence of the Scottish
electorate to bear successfully upon the government
of the day, and in favour of this Bill of Mr. M'Lagan,
liberal subscriptions to the funds are urgently required,
and will be gratefully received at the offices or by the
agents. Subscribers to the Association of 10s. and
upwards yearly receive a copy of The Reformer weekly,
free. Please note the address —112 Bath Street,
Glasgow.
ST. ANDREW ORDER OF REFORMED
TEMPLARS.
Established 28th August, 1872.
Objects : — To maintain and promote the principles
of temperance in the locality in which a lodge is
placed, and to co-operate with all other temperance
organizations for the overthrow of the drinking cus-
toms of our country.
; President, David Porteous, Esq., 58 Bath Street;
treasurer, John Graham, 85 Doncaster St., Glasgow;
corresponding secretary, D. Stewart, 31 Sauchiehall
Street, Glasgow.
GLASGOW WORKING MEN'S AND WEST OF
SCOTLAND SABBATH PROTECTION
ASSOCIATION.
Office-bearers for 1887 :— Patron— The Right Hon.
the Earl of Glasgow; late Patron — The Right Hon. the
Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. Hon. Presidents— The Right
Hon. Lord Selborne, ex-Lord Chancellor ; Right Hon.
Lord Kinnaird ; The Right Hon. Earl of Aberdeen ;
The Right Rev. Dr. Ryle, Bishop of Liverpool ; Sir
Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart. , Ardgowan House ; Col.
Sir A. Campbell, Bart., of Blythswood, M.P.; Sir Wm.
Collins, Glasgow ; Sir Peter Coats, of Aucliendrane ;
John Burns, Castle Wemyss ; Sir A. Orr Ewing, Bart.,
of Ballikinrain, M.P. ; A. C. Corbett, M.P.; Lt.-Col.
Wm. MacDonald-MacDonald, F.R.S.E., Perthshire;
James Campbell, Tullichewan ; Jas. Hannan ; James
A. Campbell, LL.D., of Stracathro, M.P. ; the Hon.
John Ure, ex- Lord Provost; John Geddes, Cath-
cart ; the Hon. James King, Lord Provost. General
Committee— Jas. Hamilton, W. J. Davidson, James
Salmon, Rev. Dr. Marshall Lang, David Ross, D.
M. Carrick, Jas. Miller, Bailie W. Wilson, J. Adams,
Bailie Laing, Rev. John Adam, D.D., Rev. R. Drum-
mond, D.D., Rev. J. Elder Gumming, D.D., Rev.
R. Gault, Rev. John Douglas, H. Mair, Rev. Wm.
Boyd, D.D., W. M'Lellan, Sir M. Connal, Wm. Mit-
chell, Geo. M'Callum, D. Macpherson; Chainnan, W.
Kidston.Ferniegair. Executive Committee— Deputy-
Chairman, D. M. Carrick ; General Secretary, Robert
Mackintosh, 94 Hill St., Garnethill; Assist. -Secretary,
George M'Leod ; Hon. Treasurer, John M. Cunning-
ham, Clydesdale Bank ; Treasurer, -D. Clow. The
Hon. James King, Lord Provost, H. Brown, A. H.
M'Lean, W. Galbraith, A. Allan, Rev. George Reith,
Rev. Chas. A. Salmond, Walter Mackenzie, Coun-
cillor Fairley, Bailie Scott, Daniel Frazer, J. S.
Napier, Wm. Shaw, Andrew Husband, Henry Sten-
house, James Morton, D. M'Callam, Colin Brown,
ex-Bailie James Brown, James M'Call, James
M'JIichael, J. N. Cuthbertson, R. H. Leadbetter,
George Simpson, Alex. G. Graham, Hugh Steven,
Principal Douglas, Rev. George Jeffi-ey, D.D., Rev.
Jas. M'Naught, D.D., Rev. D. R. Kilpatrick, Rev. Evan
Gordon, Rev. Dr. Anderson, Rev. Robert K. Mon-
teath, Rev. Robert Bremner, Rev. James Bryce, Rev.
Alexander C. Fullarton, Rev. Andrew Leiper, Rev.
David Farquhar, Thomas Thomas, John Donald,
John Geddes, Andrew Stewart, W. B. Hutchison,
David Lawson, Alex. Jloffat, John Robertson, T. Rae,
Wm. Kirkland,A.M.Black. Correspondingmembers —
Rev. Robt. Elder, D.D., Rothesay ; ex- Provost Camp-
bell, Greenock ; Rev. Dr. Robert Williamson, Ascog,
Bute. Offices of the Association — Religious Institu-
tion Rooms, 177 Buchanan St., Glasgow, where all
communications are to be addressed to Mr. Robert
Mackintosh, General Secretary.
COWCADDENS MEDICAL MISSION.
This mission was instituted in October, 1884, in
connection with the Northern Evangelistic work in
a most populous and destitute district of the city. Dis-
pensary Mission Hall, Cowcaddens Free Church, open
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 2 p.m. Free
advice and medicine given to the deserving poor : visits
made where necessary.
President, Rev. Wilham Ross, 163 Hill street,
Garnethill ; secretary, Mr. P. M'B. Stewart, 7 Cathe-
dral street ; treasurer, James Cairns, 124 Sauchie-
hall St.; Medical officer, Alexander Muir Smith, M.D.