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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW FOUNDRY BOYS' RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY.
Instituted 1865.
The Society has for its object the religious, educa-
tional, and social elevation of the boys and girls of
Glasgow. Membership — 20,738 lads and girls, and
2656 voluntary workers. It has 82 branches in the
city and suburbs.
Honorary President — His Grace The Duke of
Argyll, K.T., K.G.
Honorary vice- Presidents — Rev. Joseph Brown,
D.D., Rev. D. Macleod, D.D., Rev. James M'Ewen,
M.A., Rev. Thns. Adamson, B.D.,Rev. James Brown,
M.A., Rev. John Orr, Rev. T. Eynon Davies, Rev. John
Tainsh, Rt. Hon. Lord Overtoun, Hon. Jas. Bell,
Lord Provost, Sir Jas. King, Bart., LL.D., Sir John
Muir, Bart., Sir J. Neilson Cuthbertson, Sir John
Burns, Bart., Jas. Campbell, and J- S. Napier.
Directors — Samuel Chisholm, president; John Col-
tart, vice-president; Jas. L.Selkirk, C. A., treasurer, 64
West Regent St.; Jas. Williamson, secy., 203 Hope
Street; George Hunter, J. R. Sandilands, Thomas
Macnair, James Dick, Alexander MacKeith, James
Wilson, John Stuart, R. Fotheringham, H. K. Brom-
head, 'J'. S. Brown, Peter Macfarlane, A. Sinclair, jun.,
Thomas For.-iyth, Thomas Kay, Thos. M'Murtrie, David
Rodger, Thos. Wilson, John S. Craig, Charles Keay,
and Robert Oliphant, directors. Committee Rooms,
The Christian Institute, 70 Bothwell street.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT SABBATH-SCHOOL
UNION.
A. Cameron Corbett, M.P., John Wilson, M.P.,
Councillor Steele, Councillor Paton, Councillor
Fife Bailie Primrose, Councillor Richmond, Messrs.
T. Jackson, R. Westlands, R. B. Smith, J. Lyle,
.1. Bilsland, W. R. Calder, James Patterson, J.
Shannon, William Hood, hon. directors; Andrew
Aird, Esq., hon. president; George Tait, Niven,
president; James M'GiU, vice-president; S. Lorimer,
29 Bedford Ssreet, treasurer; Robert Sutter, 20
Maxwell road, Glasgowi and Hector Dove, B.Sc,
107 St. Andrew's hd., PoUokshields, secretaries.
The directors meet, for the transaction of business,
on the third Monday of January, March, May, July,
Sept., and November, in the Session House of Elgin
Street U.P. Chiu'ch, Elgin Street, S.S.
WEST COAST IMISSION; OR, THE SOCIETY
FOR THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION IN
THE WEST HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF
SCOTLAND.
This mission was instituted in 1855. Its object
is the spread of the Gospel amongst the scattered
population of the western islands and sea-boards of
Scotland. There are twenty-seven agents engaged
in this work. Its fundamental principles are evan-
, gelical and unsectarian.
OfiBce-bearer.s for 1895 — President, His Grace the
Duke of Argyll; vice-presidents, Duncan Darroch,
Esq., of Torriden, Rev. Jas. Black, D.D.; directors.
Revs. Dr. Marshall Lang, Dr. Black, Rev. C. M'Ewing,
Rev. Wm- Ross Rev. Thomas Adamson, Rev. O. M.
Connell, Rev. J. D. M'Culloch, Dr. Hugh Thomson ;
Treasurer, Mr. D. Campbell, 315 St. Vincent street;
c,ccretary and superintendent, Miss A. K. Rintoul,
gOO Buchanan street.
WORKING MEN'S EVANGELISTIC
ASSOCIATION.
X Secular Hall, 122 Ingram Street.
This Society was instituted in 1870 by pious
operatives anxious to stem the tide of Popery in
Glasgow, and offer efiective opposition to the infidel's
propaganda coming to this city at set intervals from
London. They selected as the director of their mis-
sions Mr. Harry Alfred Long, author of '' Family and
Personal Names." Under his direction above a
million of books, tracts, and pamphlets have been
issued. Their hall is also utili7,ed to obtain employ-
ment for persons out of work, and in feeding and
clothing the destitute. Divine service is conducted
every Sabbath at 2 and 6.30 p.m. A prayer meeting is
held on Tuesday evenings, and lectures are delivered
in the course of the week. The association consists of an
bon. president. Sir J. N. Cuthbertson ; president,
Mr. John Rae, and twenty-six members of com-
mittee. Subscriptions may be sent to collector, Mr.
George Rae, 122 Ingram Street, or to secretary,
Mr. D. Burnside, 13 Davidson Street, Dalmarnock
Road, or to Mr. T. Craig, 39 St. Mungo Street.
"CHILDREN OF ZION" CHURCH,
70 Great Wellington St. (Paisley Rd. Toll).
Elder Robert Ewing, pastor; W. B. M'Farlane,
secretary.
Their mottoes are truth, temperance, charity, pure
religion, and practical Christianity. Their hope — the
promises made unto the fathers, combined with the
restitution of all things at the coming of the Messiah.
GLASGOW WORKING MEN'S MISSION-
MISSION TO THE FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN
AND WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION.
Halls and Office, 8 Watson Street, City.
Hon. Pros., ex-Provost M 'Lean, Central Chambers;
hon. vice-president, George Stewart, Esq., Carlton
Lodge; president. Rev. Professor Macklin, 22 Moray
Place ; treasurer, Thomas Martin, Esq., 7 Aunfield
Street; solicitor and auditor, John Hope, Esq., 173
St Vincent Street; lady superintendent, Mrs. Henry
Smith, 5 Tower Street, Parkgrove.
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, Mrs.
Henry Smith, 8 Watson Street, Glasgow.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
CONTINENTAL SOCIETY.
J. A. Campbell, M.P., LL.D., president; the Right
Hon. Lord Overtoun, Sir John Burns, Bart, Sir J.
N. Cuthbertson, and Jas. Stevenson, Esq., vice-
presidents; T. Bost, 33 Renfield St., and Mrs. Wra.
Wright, 14 Belhaven Terrace, hon. treasurers ; Rev.
W. Boyd, LL.D.. 6 Park Circus Place, and Michael
Honeyman, 59 Hamilton Drive, hon. secretaries.