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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.
Office, 108 Hope Street.
Object — The entire abolition of the drinking system.
Sir William Collins, J.P., D.L., president ; Rev. J.
Brown, D.D., Rev. Ales. Wallace, D.D., Rev. W. Reid,
D.D., Rev. David Russell, Rev. F. Ferguson, M.A.,
D.D., Rev. James Stewart, M.A , Eev. Principal
Cairns, D.D., LL.D., Rev. William Ritchie, D.D.,
Rev. J. C. Burns, D.D., Rev. J. C. EusscU, D.D.,
Messrs. A. Allan, J.F., E. Lockhart, G. Rough, W.
Menzies, M.D., D. J. Macfie, J.P., G. M'Callum, J.P.,
John Wilson, J.P., Geo. Smith, A. H. Maclean, Jas.
Guthrie, J.P., James Johnston, A. Cameron Corbett,
M.P., Hugh Lambertou, J.P., ex- Provost Jas. Clark,
Alex. S. Cook, ex-Provost Campbell, J.P., ex-Provost
Moncur, vice-presidents ; Messrs. A. Thomson, W.
Aitken, Jas. Downie, Ales. Buchanan, es-Bailie Ure,
Ales. Macdougall, Jas. Shaw, J.P., David Anderson,
T. Dunnachie, Francis Spite, J. Mowat, David For-
tune, Rev. James A. Johnston, Rev. Geo. Gladstone,
Rev. Wm. Ross, Robert Whitson, Bailie Campbell,
and Richard Cameron, directors ; Eev. James A.
Johnston, chairman ; Alex. Thomson, vice-chairman;
James Shaw, treasurer; W. Johnston, secretary.
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
INSTITUTE AND BOARDING HOUSE,
95 Renfield Street.
Mrs. J. B. Min-lees, Redlands, president ; Mrs. J"
W. Robertson, vice-president ; Miss N. G. West Wat-
son, treasurer ; Mrs. W. M. Oatts, secretary. J.
Campbell White, Esq. ; J. H. N. Graham, Esq. ; Ales.
Sloan, Esq., and W. M. Oatts, Esq., gentlemen's
committee.
The object of the Association is to promote the
religions, moral, and temporal welfare of young women.
Refreshment and reading rooms are open daily.
Educational classes and religious meetings are held.
There is also a Registry for female servants, and a
Temporary Home for servants at 95 Renfield Street.
Similar meetings, classes, &c., are provided at the
Bridgeton Rooms of the Association, Landi-essy St.,
Bridgeton.
M'ALL MISSION IN FRANCE.
Glasgow and West of Scotland Auxiliary.
In connection -with the Glasgow Continental Society.
Hon. treasurer, Robert Puie, Esq., 207 W. George
"Street; hon. secretary, Wm. M. Wisely, Esq., 27
St. Vincent Place.
MISSION TO THE ITALIANS IN GLASGOW.
In connection -with the Continental Society.
Hon. treasurer, T. Bost, Esq., 83 Renfield Street.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL UNION.
Rooms — Christian Institute, Bothwell St.
Sir Wm. Collins, president ; Andrew Crawford, 70
Bothwell St., secretary. Directors meet for business
on second Monday of each month.
The objects of the Union are to encourage, unite
and increase Sabbath Schools in the City and Neigh-
bourhood ; and to improve the methods of conducting
them, by circulating information, and giving currency
10 'jseful suggestions.
SCOTTISH MISSION OF THE SEAMEN AND!
BOATMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
Port-Dundas and St. Rollox Station.
To promote the social, moral, and religious welfare
of seamen and canal boatmen. The means employed
are — preaching the gospel in their Bethels and in the
open air ; the promotion of day, evening, and Sab-
bath schools ; the establishment of mothers' meetings,
penny banks, and temperance societies ; the circula-
tion of books, tracts, copies of the scriptures, and
general visitation. This society employs thirteen
missionaries, three day school teachers, and occupies
eight stations, and in connection therewith Sabbath
schools. Place of worship — Seaman's Hall, over col-i
lector's office, North Speirs Wharf, Port-Dundas.:
Honorary president, Leonard Gow, Esq.; honorary
vice-presidents, John Neilson Cuthbertson, Esq',
John Lawson, Esq., James S. Napier, Esq., David
King, Esq., John Moffat; chaii-man, Wm. Paris, Esq.;
vice-chairmen, Eev. John Hay, M.A., and J. H,
Waterston, Esq.; directors, Geo. Craig, Richard Gunn.
Esq., Alex. M'lver, Esq., Jas. Dewar, Thos. Calder!
Jas. M'Dougall, Adam M. MacAi-thur, R. M'Innes;
treasm'er and secretary, John King, Esq., Keppocl
Ironworks, Possilpark; missionaries, Wm. H. Gil-
bert, 239 Saracen st., Possilpark, and W. A. Logan
(superannuated). Bankers, the Commercial Bank oi
Scotland, Gordon street.
GLASGOW SEAMEN'S EVANGELISTIC
MISSION.
Bethel — 59 Morrison Street, s.s.
Object — The spiritual and social well-being of sea-
men and their families. The work is carried on by a
chaplain, assisted by fifty voluntary workers. Five
in-door and four open-air services are held weekly.
Bags well stocked with books and a New Testament
in each are put on board foreign-going vessels. Tract;
in English and in foreign languages are distributee
freely among the men. The ships and sailors' fami-
lies are visited regularly, and the men of the sea arc
influenced in every way for good. Other ports have
more than one such society, and the needs of Glasgow,
along with the great success which has followed the
efforts of this Mission, will abundantly justify its
esistence. The Seamen's Mission is dependent upor
voluntary contributions, which may be sent to th«
secretary, Mr. J. Bain, 59 Morrison St., s.s., Glasgovr
GLASGOW WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO THE
ZENANA MISSION OF THE LONDON MIS-
SIONARY SOCIETY.
Treas. , Mrs. Robt. Gow, Caimdowan, Dowanhill.
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-opei'ate with all other temperancf
organizations for the overthrow of the drinking cus-
toms of our country.
President, Charles Mair, Esq.; treasurer, James
Graham, 85 Doncaster Street, Glasgow ; corresponding
secretary, D. Stewart, 62 Crossbura Street, or 31
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
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