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RELIGIOUS AND MOEAL INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW YOUNG HEN'S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
Office-bearers — Honorary directors, the Hon. the
Lord Provost, Alexander Whitelaw, Esq., M.P., Dr.
Cameron, M.P., Arch. Orr Ewing, Esq., M.P., J. A.
Campbell, Esq., LL.D., W. Wilson, Esq., J. C. White,
Esq., A. Allan, Esq., Rer. R. Jaraieson, D.D., Rev. J.
Marshall Lang, D.D., Rev. J. Riddell, B.A , Rev. J.
Black, D.D , Rev. D. M'Ewan, D.D., Rev. F. Fergu-
son, M.A., Rev. Prof. Douglas; W. E. Robertson,
Esq., president; J. A. Thomson, Esq., P.E.LS., 415
St. Yincent Street, vice-president ; F. Y. Henderson,
Esq., 28 Renfield Street, treasurer; D. Munro, Esq,
F.C.S., Glasgow University, hon. secretary ; Rev. A.
T. M'Clenaghen, general secretary.
The object of this Association is to promote the
intellectual, moral, and religious improvement of
young men; audit offers facilities for social inter-
course, vfhere every effort is made to exclude evil
influences. To carry out this object there are — The
annual course of City Hall lectures, Bible classes in
various districts of the cit}', devotional and other
meetings, reading room supplied with the leading
newspapers and magazines, circulating and reference
libraries, educational and other classes. Rooms, 280
George Street.
THE SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.
Office, 108 Hope Street.
Object — Tlie entire abolition of the di'inking system.
— William Collins, president ; Rev. J. Brown, D.D.,
Rev. J. Longmuir, LL.D., Rev. A. Wallace, D.D.,
Rev. P. M'Dowall, M.A., Rev. W. Reid, Rev. T. C.
Wilson, Rev. D. Russell, Rev. F. Ferguson, M.A.,
Eev. J. Stewart, M.A, J. M'Gavin, R. Lockhart,
W. Govan, jun., G. Rough, J. Gilchrist, IM.D., W.
Menzies, M.D., D. J. Macfie, A. Allan, G. M'Callum,
T. Lawrie, A. Thomson, J. Johnston, W. Aitken,
Rev. J. Douglas, A. Fullarton, J. Burt, J. Fulton, A.
Buchanan, directors ; N. M'Neill, chairman ; L.
Mackay, vice-chairman ; J. H. Watt, 6 Dixon St.,
treasurer; W. Johnston, 108 Hope St., secretary.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
AVm. Wilson, 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., 155
West George Street, and A. B. Inglis, 243 Parlia-
mentary Road, secretaries.
The committee consists of a representative from
each Parochial Sabbath School Society in Glasgow.
WESTERN DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
Directors meet in Hall of Free St. Matthew's Church.
President, William Fife ; vice-president, James
Kerr ; treasurer, James Connell ; secretaries, Wm. J.
Mitchell, 119 Buchanan Street, and P. MacKichan,
235 Bath Street; directors, D. M. Lang, James
White, Archibald Craig, Robert Dunlop, George Wyse,
Walter M'Lean, John Pickering, Peter Gardner,
William Kirkland, W. R. Strong.
GLASGOW MAGDALENE INSTITUTION FOR
THE REPRESSION OF VICE AND THE
REFORMATION OF PENITENT FEMALES.
Office and receiving House, 17 Stirling Road,
J. Hannan, president; J. D. Bryce, G. Burns,
J. A. Campbell, G. Martin, and J. Mitchell, vice
presidents; J. Gray, M.D., physician; James C.
Wyper, 107 Unionr Street, hon. treasurer; R. W. Sin
clair, secretary; and a committee of 42 directors;
Subscriptions and donations in aid of the institutio:
will be received by the treasurer, secretary, or b_
any of the directors. Information as to the object
and operations of the society may be obtained fro
the secretary, to whom all communications relating
to the business of the society should be addressed, al
the office.
Applicants for admission are received at the PrO'
bationary Home, 17 Stirling Road, at any hour. Thii
Home accommodates 60 inmates. The Society's re-
formatory and industrial work is prosecuted at th
Home, Lochburn, Maryhill.
GLASGOW AUXILIARY TO THE LONDON
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
George Thomson, D. Anderson, vice-presidents
Rev. Dr. Eadie, Eev. Dr. Jeffiey, Rev. Dr. Adam,
Rev. Dr. W. C. Smith, Rev. Dr. Black, J. A. Camp
bell, J. Mitchell, honor, directors; J. M'llwraith, 135
Hope Street, treasurer ; Rev. George Stewart, 10
Napiersbali Street, Great Western Road, secretary
GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
President, eleven vice-presidents, thirty-four di-
rectors, and forty-one missionaries; Donald Fisher
Esq., 183 St. Vincent Street, treasurer; Rev. Johi
Renfrew, 172 Buchanan Street, secretary.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE.
Glasgow District Branch.
Subscription, 10s. 6d. per annum. President, thi
Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway; secretary, Rev. J
W. W. Penney, D.C L. Depot, Messrs. David Sryci
& Son, 129 Buchanan Street.
MIDDLE DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
COMMITTEE ROOMS — RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION.
John Steel, president ; A. M'Fadyen, vice-presi-
dent; Wm. Simpson, 21 West Nile St., treasurer;
Wm. M. Oatts, 4 Newton Street, and J. R. M'Intyre,
33 Warwick Street, secretaries ; G. Anderson, E.
Agnew, John Collie, W. W. May, J. R. Paton, J. A.
Robertson, Noah Smith, and T. H. Watson, directors.
PARTICK AND HILLHEAD SABBATH
SCHOOL UNION.
Alexander Morrison, pre.«ident ; Peter Bertram, vric-i
president ; H. Stewart, 49 West Nile Street, treasureei
M. Liddell, W. JIackie, Thos. Henderson, Wm. Davidj
son, J. Gourlay, R. Young, and A. M. Muir, directors;
J. Eiddoch, 3 Dowanvale Ten, Partick, and R. Cowan
M'Intyre, 2 Sandbank Place, Partick, secretaries.