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EELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW AUXILIARY TO THE LONDON
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Chairman, W. S. Workman, Esq. ; treasurer, Alex.
Lamberton, Esq. (Messrs. J. Gray & Co.), Adelphi
Terrace, s. s., or c/o James Brown, 76 St. Vincent
Street ; secretaries, R. W. Henry, 62 Kelvingrove St.,
George A. Turner, M.D., 1 Clifton Place, Rev. W.
Amott, 27 Eoslea Drive.
The London Missionary Society was founded in
1795 to spread the knowledge of Christ among
heathea and other unenlightened nations. It is en-
tirely unsectarian; its fundamental principle being
" not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Epis-
copacy, or any other form of church order and
government, but the glorious Gospel of the blessed
God to the heathen, leaving it to the minds of the
persons whom God may call into the fellowship of
His Son from among them, to assume for themselves
such form of church government as to them shall
appear most agi-eeable to the Word of God." A large
staff of male and female missionaries, drawn from the
various evangelical denominations at home, and a
much larger staff of trained native ministers and
teachers, carry on its work in Africa, India, China,
Polynesia, &c. The annual meetings of the Glasgow
Auxiliary take place in the third week of November,
each year.
GROVE STREET (HOME MISSION)
INSTITUTE.
Instituted 1859. Halls erected 1865 ; extension 1895.
Trustees, Jas. A. Campbell, Esq., LL.D., M.P.,
Stracathro ; Wm. Holmes, Esq., Edinburgh ; J. W.
M'Gill, Esq., Manchester; Robt. Boyd, Esq., A. A.
Fergusson, Esq., Hugh Steven, Esq., The Lord Provost
Sir .James Bell, Bart., W. A. Campbell, Esq., Sir
James King, Bart., George Smith, Esq., John A.
Roxburgh, Esq.; hon. president, Robert Boyd, Esq.,
53 Cochrane St. ; general superintendent, T. A. Boyd,
Esq., Shettleston Iron Works; superintendent and
secretary, Mr. E. J. Mitchell, Grove Street Institute;
hon. treasurer, John S. Galbraith, Esq., writer, 69 St.
Vincent Street.
Grove Street Institute is an unsectarian home
mission organization, having halls built by public sub-
scription at a cost of over £10,000, and situated on the
margin of one of the most densely populated districts
of the city. It is entirely dependent on voluntary
contributions, and requires £1000 per annum to main-
tain its work. In addition to the Evangelistic,
Medical Mission, Benevolent, and Temperance work,
it has departments for fathers, mothers, working-
lads, young women, and children — its agencies thus
reaching whole families. It has been in operation for
thirty-six years as an auxiliary to the churches of all
denominations, with results which prove the soundness
of its principles of mission work, and the gi-eat value
of organization.
M'ALL MISSION IN FRANCE.
Glasgow and West of Scotland Auxiliaet.
In connection with the Glasgow Continental Society.
Hon. treasurer, Robert Pirrie, Esq., 207 W. George
Street; hon. secretary, Wm. M. Wisely, Esq., The
Scottish Provident Institution, 29 St. Vincent Place,
GLASGOW WORKING MEN'S MISSION-
MISSION TO THE FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN
AND WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION.
Halls and Office, 8 Watson Street, City.
Hon. Pres., ex-Provost M 'Lean, Central Chambers;
hon. vice-president, George Stewai-t, Esq., Carlton
Lodge ; president. Rev. Professor Macklin, 22 Moray
Place ; treasurer, Thomas Martin, Esq., 4 Emily
Place; solicitor, John Hope, Esq., 173 St Vincent
Street; lady superintendent, Mrs. Henry Smith, 5
Tower Street, Parkgrove; auditors. Love & Paterson,
C.A., 19G St Vincent Street.
The Mission, which is pre-eminently a slum one,
is evangelical in its doctrines, unsectarian in its opera-
tions, and is supported by voluntary contributions.
The affairs of the society are managed by a committee
of fourteen. Free breakfasts and teas are given weekly
during the cold weather, and in connection with the
work there is a holiday home for respectable poor at
Kirn. The industrial branch of the mission sends
out strong reliable women to wash and clean by the
day or hour. All communications should be addressed,
and cheques and postal orders made payable to, JIrs,
Henry Smith, 8 Watson Street, Glasgow.
GLASGOW SEAjMEN'S EVANGELISTIC
MISSION.
Bethel — The Ferry, 10 Springfield Terrace, 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 about sixty voluntary workers.
Seven in-door and 3 open-air services are held weekly.
Bags well stocked with books and a New Testament
in each are put on board out-going vessels. Tracts
in English and in foreign languages are distributed
freely among the men. The ships and sailors' fami-
lies are visited regularly, and the men of the sea are
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
existence. The Seamen's Mission is dependent upon
voluntary contributions, which may be sent to the
secretary, Mr. James Neilson, The Fen-y, 10 Spring-
field Terrace, s.s., Glasgow.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAim
CONTINENTAL SOCIETY.
J. A. Campbell, M.P., LL.D., president; the Eight
Hon. Lord Overtoun, Sir John Bums, Bart, Sir J.
N. Cuthbertson, and Jas. Stevenson, Esq., vice-
presidents; T. Bost, 33 Renfield St., and Mrs. Wm.
Wright, 14 Belhaven Terrace, hon. treasurers ; Rev.
W. Boyd, LL.D., 6 Park Circus Place, and Michael
Honeyman, 59 Hamilton Drive, hon. secretaries.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL UNION.
Rooms — Christian Institute, Bothwell St.
Thomas Binnie, Esq., 3 Park Gate, pres. ; And
Crawford, 70 Bothwell St., secretary. Directors meet
for business on second Monday of each month.
The objects of the Union are to encourage, finite,
and increase Sabbath Schools in the City and Neigh-
bourhood ; and to improve the methods of conducting
them, by circulating information, and giving currency
to useful suggestions.