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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS,
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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 ivith
the Churches or Sabbath Schools. There are now
703 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.
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, 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
to useful suggestions.
'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 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
1 voluntary contributions, which may be sent to the
treasurer, Mr. John Carmichael, 59 Morrison St., s.s.,
Glasgow.
GLASGOW HOME MISSION UNION.
Objects — Visiting and reclaiming the non-church-
going of the city.
Organization — All the evarigelical churches of the
city willing to associate and work on recognized lines.
Method — City divided into eight sections, each
section subdivided for congregational endeavours.
General Council:— (80 members) Rev. Dr. W. Boss
Taylor, president; Rev. James Kerr, D.D., and Alex.
Lambeiton, Esq., Kirkton House, PoUokshields,
vice-presidents; B. D. M'Ewan, Esq., 22 Montrose
Street, treasurer ; P. B. Bryce, 46 Hutcheson Street,
secretary.
GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
Four honorary directors, president, four vice-presi-
dents, thirty directors, and thirty -four mission-
aries; Donald Fisher, Esq., 24 St. Vincent Street,
treasurer; Rev. John Renfrew, 200 Buchanan Street,
secretary.
THE CANAL BOATMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY
OF SCOTLAND
Institute, 162 Port-Dundas Road.
To promote the social, moral, and religious welfare
of canal boatmen and their families. The means
employed are — preaching the gospel in the Institute
and in the open air ; the promotion of Sabbath
schools; the establishment of mothers' meetings,
penny banks, temperance societies, and bands of
hope ; the circulation of books, tracts, copies of the
scriptures, and general visitation. President, Leonard
Gow, Esq. ; vice-presidents. Major F. W. Allan and
Bailie William Bilsland; directors. Rev. George G.
Green, M.A., Richard Gunn, Rev. J. Hay, M.A.,
Councillor John King, Wra. Cameron, Tbos. Jenkins,
James Rankine, John N. Macleod, Leonard Gow, jr.,
Thomson M'Lintock, William Sprnat, George Stout,
JaiDes Wilson, George Sutherland, Alexander W.
Miller; treasurer, T. M. M'Crindell, 24 George Sq.;
secretary, John Turnbull, jun., writer. 133 St. Vin-
cent Street ; superintendent, William H. Gilbert, 21
Windsor Street. Bankers, the Commercial Bank of
Scotland, Gordon Street.
GOVAN DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
The General Committee meets in the hall of Govan
U.P. Church, Copeland Road, on the last Tuesday
of January, and of every alternate month.
Hon. President, John Stephen, Esq.; president, John
Locbore, Esq.; vice-presidents, Tho.». Adams and John
M'Leod; treasurer, J. C. Black, 7 South Avenue;
joint secretaries, Malcolm Macleod, 139 Govan Road,
G. D. Liddell, 284 Scotland Street; directors, Messrs
G. Robertson, J. Grahame, W. D. Bryden, D. A.
Sandilands, R. Bone.
GLASGOW YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
Institute, 80 Bath Street,
Mrs. J. B, Mirrlees, Redlands, president ; Mrs. J.
W. Robertson, and Mn-". Gumprecht, vice-presidents;
Miss N. G. West Vv'atson, treasurer; Mrs. W. M.
Oatts, secretary. Lord Overtoun, J. H. N. Graham,
Esq., Alex. Sloan, Esq., and W. M. Oatts, Esq.,
gentlemen's committee.
The object of the Association is to promote the
religious, moral, and temporal welfare of young women.
Refreshment and reading rooms are open daily.
Educational classes and religious meetings are held.
There is a large Boarding House for youog women
engaged in business, a Registry for female servants, and
a Temporary Home for servants at the Institute, 80
Bath Street. Similar meetings, classes, &c., are pro-
vided at the Bridgeton Institute of the Association,
32 Muslin St., Bridgeton.
MISSION TO THE ITALIANS IN GLASGOW,
In connection 'with the Continental Society.
Hon. treasurer, Wm. M. Wisely, Esq,, The Scot-
tish Provident Institution, 29 St. Vincent Place.
GLASGOW WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO THE
ZENANA MISSION OF THE LONDON MIS-
SIONARY SOCIETY,
Treas. , Mrs. Robt, Gow, Caimdowan, Dowanhill.