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EELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
SCOTTISH PERMISSIVE BILL AND TEM-
PEKANCE ASSOCIATION.
O'oject, — The promotion of total abstinence as a
rale of life, the creation of an enlightened public
opinion in favour of the Suppression of all Traffic in
Intoxicating Liquors as beverages, and to secure,
through the united efforts of moral and social re-
formers, the passage into law of a measure framed to
effectually suppress that traffic by the direct votes
of the ratepayers.
John Wilson, Esq., M.P., Glasgow, president ; vice-
presidents, Lord Overtoun, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart.,
M.P. ; Peter M'Lagan, Esq., ex-M. P. ; A. C. Corbett,
Esq., M.P. ; ex-Bailie Jamieson, Perth; Sir Andrew
M'Lean, Partick; Sir John Cowan, Bart., Beeslack ;
Professor W. G. Blaikie, D.D., Edinburgh; with up-
wards of 120 hon. vice-presidents and directors;
ex-Bailie Selkirk, J.P., chairman of executive; ex-
Provost Dick, J.P., treasurer; Mr. R. A. Bird, hon.
secretary; K. Mackay, secretary, 112 Bath Street.
Official organ, The Scottish Reformer, published
weekly, one penny. The income last year amounted
to £4256 13s. 6^d.
The number ot meetings addressed by representa-
tives of the Association in the course of a year ranges
from 1300 to 1600. The Association fully employs
nine agents and secretary, besides agents in various
parts of the country, who are meantime partially
engaged. Scotland is divided into districts, with
headquarters in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen,
Dundee and Dumfries. The Association has increased
its Parliamentary position materially. Forty members,
being a majority of the Scottish parliamentary
represt-ntaiiun, are pledged to support the Liquor
Traffic Local Veto (Scotland) Bill, which gives
the ratepayers of Scotland power to abolish all
traffic in intoxicating hquors in their respective burghs,
■wards of hurgbs, parishes, and districts when so minded,
and the Executive have resolved to give this measure
a vigorous and sustained support. To enable them to
bring the influence of the Scottish electorate to bear
successfully upon the government of the day, and in
favour of this Bill now under the charge of Mr.
Wilson M.P., liberal subscriptions to the funds
are urgently required, and will be gratefully re-
ceived at the offices or by the district agents.
Subscribers to the Association of 10s and upwards
yearly receive a copy ot The Scottish Reformer
weekly, free, and of 5s. yearly, a copy, post free,
monthly. Please note the address —112 Bath Street,
Glasgow.
GLASGOW ABSTAINERS' UNION.
Schemes of operation. — Sabbath Evening Sermons,
St. Andrew's Hall; City Hall Saturday Evening
Concerts; Band of Hope; Penny Savings Banks;
Temperance Library; Tract Distribution; Female
Missionaries on the "Missing Link" system; Sea
Side Convalescent Home for the Poor, &c., &c.
James Airlie, secretary, 184 Wellington Street (corner
of Bath Street).
GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
Four honorary directors, president, six vice-presi-
dents, thirty directors, and thirty -five mission-
aries; Donald Fisher, Esq., 24 St. Vincent Street,
treasurer; Rev. John Renfrew, 200 Buchanan Street,
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 Scopand
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
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. There has also been temperance teaching m
country day-schools. Lectures with experiments
have been delivered in 432 schools, attended by
about 42,000 young people and teachers, and about
6000 miles travelled to accomplish the work of th«
season.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD
TEMPLARS— GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND.'
Total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors as a t
beverage, and the absolute prohibition of the manU'
factnre, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquorai
to be used as a beverage.
No person can be admitted to membership in thij
Order unless he believes in the existence of Almighty
God as the Ruler and Governor of all things, and ia
willing to take the pledge for life. Under this rule aE
classes are welcomed.
There are 700 adult lodges in Scotland, with s
membership of nearly 40,000, and 400 juvenile lodges,
with over 30,000 members. Each lodge meets weeklj
for the transaction of business and the initiation ol
new members. The Order is sustained by the weeklj
contributions of its members. A regular and ar
occasional staff of agents is employed, who addres;
meetings throuehout the country, and a monthlj
magazine is published — The Good Templar.
Tom Honeyman, 72 Great Clyde St., Glasgow,
grand secretary.
GLASGOW WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO TEI
ZENANA MISSION OF THE LONDON MIS-
SIONARY SOCIETY.
Treas. , Mrs. Robt. Gow, Caimdowan, DowanhilL
LADIES' AUXILIARY TO THE GLASGOW
CITY MISSION.
Lady Bums, Castle Wemyss, president; Mrs.
D. G. Frame, 11 Gt. Western Ter.. Kelvinside, vice-
president; Mrs. Robert Blyth, 1 Montgomerie Quad-
rant, Kelvinside, treasurer; Mrs. Robt. S. Allan, 15
Woodside Terrace, secretary; 100 collectors. Meet!
in Religious Institution Rooms on the last Tuesdaj
of January and first Tuesday of March, at 1 p.m.
All communications to Rev. John Renfrew, 200
Buchanan Street.
MISSION TO THE ITALIANS IN GLASGOW.
Hon. treasurer, Wm. M. Wisely, Esq., The Scot-
tish Provident Institution, 29 St. Vincent Place.