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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SOCIETIES.
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5. The doing all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the ahove
objects.
Office-bearers for the year 1870. — Jas. Salmon, president; A. Thomson, vice-president; Jas. Boucher,
treasurer; W. M'Lean, writer, 157 St. Vincent Street, secretary.
Councillors. — J. Salmon, A. Thomson, J. Burnet, G. Bell, J. Baird, J. Boucher, C. Douglas, J. Honey-
man, jun., H. K. Bromhead, D. Thomson.
Baird, J., 112 West Regent st.
Baldie, R., 29 Bath street
Bell, G., 37 West Nile street
Boucher, J., 177 St. Vincent st.
Bromhead, H. K., 159 West
George street
Bryden, R. A., 37 West Nile st.
Burnet, J., 150 St. Vincent street
Carrick, J., 4 South Albion street
Clarke, W., 37 West Nile street
Douglas, C, 266 St. Vincent st.
MEMBERS.
Gordon, J., 175 Hope street
Halkott, T., jun., 50 Renfield st.
Hamilton, J., Ill W. Regent st.
Iloneyman, J., jn., 61 W. Regent st
Kennedy, A., 99 Bath street
Leiper, W., 97 West Regent st.
M'Guffie, T., 101 West Nile st.
Maclure, H. H., 65 Sauchiehall st.
Murdoch, J., 48 New Market
street, Ayr
Ritchie, J., 141 West George st.
Salmon, J., 141 West George st.
Salmon, W. F., 141 W. George st.
Spence, W., 52 Renfield street
Stevenson, J. J., 266 St.Viiicent st.
Tait, W. N., 152 West George st.
Thomson, A., 183 West George st.
Thomson, A. G., 194 W. George st.
Thomson, D., 29 St. Vincent pi.
Thomson, G., 183 W. George st.
Thomson, J., 201 W. George st.
Thomson, J., 61 West Regent st.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR THE CONVERSION
OF ISRAEL.
Rev. J. Robson, D.D., president; Mr J. W. Ga-
theral, 93 Virginia Street, treasurer; Rev. J. L.
Aikman, D.D., secretary. Office, 75 St. George's
Place.
WEST OF SCOTLAND BIBLE SOCIETY.
J. King, president; Sir J. Campbell, W. Aitken,
A. Paterson, J. M. M'Kenzie, of Wishaw, and J.
Hunter, of Glenapp, vice-presidents ; Rev. Dr. Paton,
and Rev. T. B. W. Niven, secretaries ; J. E. Watson,
33 Renfield Street, treasurer.
Committee meets first Monday of every month at
3 p.m., in the Religious Institution Rooms, 75 St.
George's Place.
RELIGIOUS TRACT AND BOOK SOCIETY
OF SCOTLAND.
Glasgow Committee — G. Martin, president ; J.
A. Campbell, vice-president; Bailie W. Miller, 157
West George Street, treasurer; W. Crawford, 3
West Nile Street, secretary.
This committee has been formed in connection
with the Religious Tract and Book Society of Scot-
land, for the purpose of planting colporteurs and
distributing tracts in and around Glasgow.
WESTERN DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
T. M'Millan, president ; J. Balgarnie,vice-president;
A. Mitchell, jun., 104 Hutcheson Street, treasurer ;
T. Henderson, J. Alexander, J. H. Lindsay, A.
Drysdale, R. Whitehead, J. Connell, M. Johnston,
J. S. M'Gill, A. Craig, J. White, directors ; W.
Ronald, 17 Minerva Street, secretary.
NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT SABBATH
UNION.
R. M'Arthur, president; G. Walker, vice-presid-
ent ; J. M'Dougall, J. B. Galbraith, treasurers ; D.
Campbell, 86 Hospital Street, and J. Black, 95
George Street, secretaries; J. M'Gill, G. Simpson,
J. Henderson, C. S. Alston, M. Wotherspoon, H.
Slimmon, R. Leiper, W. Smellie, J. Broadfoot, A.
Stewart, W. Smith, J. Howatt, W. Yuill, A. Gill-
espie, directors.
MIDDLE DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
COMMITTEE ROOMS — RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
ROOMS, ST. GEORGE'S PLACE.
A. K. Murray, president ; N. Boyd, vice-president ;
P. M'Omish, 167 Castle St., treasurer; W. Thomson,
165 Shamrock Street, and H. Taylor, 15 Hope Street,
secretaries ; R. W. Sinclair, T. Hamilton, J. J. King,
J. Steel, W. M 'Naught, J. Tennant, J. Callum, and
R. J. Anderson, directors.
This union holds its meetings in the rooms on the
second Tuesday of April, June, August, October,
December, and February.
GLASGOW PROTESTANT LAYMEN'S
ASSOCIATION— Instituted 1852.
J. Blackie, jun., ex-Lord Provost; Sir M. R. S.
Stewart, Bart., of Ardgowan ; J. Plannan, J.P. ; J.
Paterson, M.D. ; A. Dunn, Sir P. Coats, Paisley;
J. Stevenson, J. Mitchell, W. Kidston, J.P. ; J.
Campbell, Tillichewan Castle ; Bailie W. Miller, A.
Dron, Thomas Murray, A. Arrol, and Councillor
Hutchison, honorary presidents ; Bailie Salmon,
president ; D. Clow and E. Bell, vice-presidents ; A.
M. Black, 260 Stobcross Street, treasurer; A. M.
Stewart, honorary secretary ; W. Kirkland, secretary
(to whom all communications are to be addressed at
the Religious Institution Rooms, 75 St. George's
Place). General committee — H. Kennedy, J. Somer-
ville, E. Bell, J. Rae, A. Stewart, P. Brown, W.
Campbell, J. Brown, J. M'Intyre, W. Kirkland, A.
M. Black, D. Falconer, A. M. Stewart, D. Clow, R.
W. Sinclair, W. Dron, W. M'Arthur, and J. Cherry ;
agent and lecturer, Rev. A. Jamieson ; collector and
officer, A. Nichol, 112 Duke Street.
Object— To combat and expose, by every legitimate
means, the pretensions and claims of the Papacy, as
opposed to God's truth and the civil and religious
liberty of mankind ; to disseminate a knowledge of,
and give directions to, the all-important principles
and interests involved in the Protestant Reformation ;
to expose and counteract the insidious propagation
of infidelity and other prevalent forms of unscriptural
error ; to foster among the members a vital Chris-
tianity, and to engage in any work of Christian truth
and usefulness that may fall within the scope of the
general principles and objects of the association.