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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW WORKING MEN'S MISSION-
MISSION TO THE FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN
AND WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME.
Headquarters, 8 Watson Street, City.
Hon. Pres., ex- Provost M 'Lean, Central Chambers;
hon. vice-president, Robert Brown, MD, Belhaven
House, Polloksbields ; president, Thomas Steven-
son, Esq., 19 Reidvale Street ; treasurer, Thomas
Martin, Esq., 4 Emiiy Place ; solicitor, John Hope,
Esq., 173 St Vincent Street; lady superintendent,
Mrs. Henry Smith ; auditors, Love & Paterson, C.A ,
196 St Vincent St.
The Mission, vphich is pre-eminently a slum one,
is evangelical in its doctrines, unsectarian in its opera-
tions, and is supported by voluntary contributions.
The aflFairs 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, Mrs.
Henry Smith, 8 Watson Street, Glasgow.
MISSION TO MEDITERRANEAN GARRISONS
AND SCOTTISH DEPOT HOMES.
(Founded in 1883 by Mrs. Todd Osborne.)
The object of the mission is to minister to the
spiritual needs of British soldiers and sailors at
home and abroad. Care of 60Oo soldiers at Gib-
raltar; 130,UU0 sailors in the bay; 8f)0O Spanish
navvies at Gibraltar; 6000 soldiers, their wives and
children, at Cairo; Itineration in South Spain;
British stations ai Gibraltar and Cairo; Spanish
mission homes and schools in Algeciras and La
Linea Also soldiers' home at Inverness, and eleven
Scripture readers with the troops in South Africa.
Office, 45 Hope Street, Glasgow.
GERMAN SEAMEN'S MISSION.
Reading Room, Seamen's histitute, 200 Broomielaw.
Services, Christian Institute, 70 Bothwell Street.
President of the Committee German Consul, J. N.
Kiep.
Missionary, Rev. R. Miinchmeyer, pastor of the Ger-
man Ev. Congregation ; ho., 11 Wilton Mansions.
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY
FOR CHINA.
Hon. president. Lord Polwarth; president, Prof.
A. Crnm Brown, F.R.S. ; vice-presidents, Hugh
Brown, E^-q., and Rev. James Blacfe, D.D. ; hon.
treasurer in G'asgow, James Drummond, Esq., C.A.,
58 Bath Street ; hun. secretary in Glasgow, Robert A.
Moody, LL B., 163 West George Street.
Object: — To promote Christianity among the
Chinese by aiding in the preparation and circulatinn,
in their own language, of (1) suitable publications
of a distinctly religious ch>.racter ; (2) general
literature written from a Christian standpoint ;
scientific and other works stiited for the more
cultured classes, and school and other text books ;
and (3) literature, chiefly religious, illustrated and
otherwise, specially suited for Chinese women and
children.
GLASGOW SEAMEN'S EVANGELISTIC
MISSION.
Bethel — The Ferry, 1 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. Tract8
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 Neilsou, The Ferry, 10 Spring-
field Terrace, s.s., Glasgow.
THE EAST-END GOSPEL MISSION
(Church— Suflidk Street. Hall— Risk Street)
And Chiudrbn's Sea-Side Home and Retreat,
Mount Pleasant, Ddnoox.
This Mission has for its object the elevation, re-
ligiously and socially, of the masses of the city slums,
principally aiming at those who know no church or
other place of worship. In addition to preaching the
Gospel, whereby outcasts and fallen are brought to a
knowledge of the truth, their temporal wants are
cared for. Daring periods of distress, the Mission
has been the means of saving many poor families
from utter want and ruin, and to-day numbers are
hard-working respectable members of society, who,
if solely left to themselves, would be on the downward
path of sin and misery. Ttie accounts of the Mission
are made up and vouched for periodically.
The Children's Bome and Retreat at Dunoon bag
proved a great boon to the little ones. The greatest
care are taktn of them Moral instruction, medical
attendance during illness, &c.
The Mission is supported by voluntary subscrip-
tions and donations, and a copy of the Report
with certified abstracts of accounts is sent to each
subscriber. T. G. A. Scott, superintendent; P. E.
Fitzpatrick, secretary.
SCOTTISH BAND OF HOPE UNION.
President, A. Cameron Corbett, Esq., M.P. ; sec,
Wm. Aikman; office, 94 W. Regent Street, corner
of Hope Street.
The Union aims at training the youth of Scotland
to abstain from alcoholic drinks as beverages through
the formation of Bands of Hope in connection with
the Churches or Sabbath Schools. There are now
lib Bands of Hope connected with the Union scat-
tered over all the counties in Scotland. Through its
various agencies, it is becoming very widely instru-
mental in training the young to hate and fear strong
drink. There has also been temperance teaching in
country day-schools. Lectures with experiments
have been delivered in 5i0 schools, connected with
166 Boards, attended by about 60,000 young people
and teachers, and about 6000 miles travelled to
accomplish the work of the season.