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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUIIONS.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL UNION.
Rooms — Christian Institute, Bothweli St.
John Ingram, Esq., Cambusknowe, Bm-nside,
Eutherglen, pres. ; And. Crawford, 70 Bothweli St.,
secretary. Directors meet for business on second
Monday of each month.
The objects of the Union are to encourage, nnite,
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.
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, J. J.
Thomson, Esq. ; vice-presidents, Thos. Adams and John
M'Leod ; treasurer, J. C. Black, 7 South Avenue ;
joint secretaries, Malcolm Macleod, 139 Govan Road,
G. D. Liddell, 256 Scotland Street; directors, Messrs
J. Grahame, W. D. Biyden, D. A. Sandilands, D.
Bone, W. Begg, Peter Tait.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT SABBATH-SCHOOL
UNION.
A. Cameron Corbett, M.P., John Wilson, M.P.,
Lord Provost Richmond, Councillor Steele, Coun-
cillor Fife, ex-Bailie Primrose, Messrs. T. Jackson,
E. Westlands, R. B. Smith, J. Lyle, J. Bilsland,
W. R. Calder, James Patterson, J. Shannon, Wm.
Hood, Joseph Crosbie, hon. directors; Andrew
Aird, Esq., hon. president; George Tait Niven,
president ; James M'Gill, vice-president ; S. Lorimer,
29 Bedford Street, treasurer; Robert Sutter, 20
Maxwell road, Glasgow, and Hector Dove, B.Sc,
33 Afton Street, Langside, secretaries.
The directors meet, for the transaction of business,
on the third Monday of January, March, May, July,
Sept., and November, in the Hall of Victoria Free
Church, Pollokshaws Road.
WEST COAST MISSION ; OR, THE SOCIETY
FOR THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION IN
THE WEST HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OP
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.
Office-bearers for 1897 — 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. John
Brown, Rev. J. D. M'CuUoch, Rev. J. M'Leod, Rev.
W. A. Macfarlane, Rev. Charles Robson, and Rev.
James Macmillan ; Treasurer, Mr. D. Campbell, 315
St. Vincent street; secretary and superintendent,
Miss A. K. Rintoul, 200 Buchanan street.
GLASGOW YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
Institute, 80 Bath Street.
Mrs. J. B. Min-lees, Redlands, president; Mrs.
Gumprecht, vice-president ; Miss N. G. West Watson,
treasurer; Mrs. W. M. Oatts, secretary. Lord
Overtoun, J. H. N. Graham, Esq., Ales. Sloan, Esq.,
and W. BI. 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 young 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.
CHABITABLE AND FEIENDLT INSTITUTIONS.
ST. ANDREW'S AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.
Objects — (I) Instruction in ambulance duties by
the establishment of classes, to enable the members
thereof to render intelligent first aid to persons acci-
dentally injured, pending the arrival of a medical man ;
(2) instruction in home nursing and hygiene to ladies
as an auxiliary to ambulance instruction ; and (3)
the placing of stretchers, ambulance waggons, and
other appliances necessary for the relief of the injured,
in such situations as may be considered advisable, to
enable assistance to be given with the least possible
delay.
The waggons are sent to any accident within the
Glasgow parliamentary boundaries free of charge.
Accidents occurring outside the Glasgow parliament-
ary boundaries, and within a radius of ten miles from
Glasgow, are also attended to ; and, in the case of
non-subscribers, there is a uniform charge not exceed-
ing 2s. per mile to cover expenses. The waggons are
available by day or night, and messages should be
sent either by telegraph or telephone, when they will
be immediately attended to. Secretary, Andrew
Henderson, writer, 103 West Regent Street.
KINTYRE CLUB.
Instituted 1825.
OiSce-bearers for year 1897 — Patron, His Grace the
Duke of Argyll ; president, D. Macdonald; secretary,
R. Harvey' Piiie, LL.B., 173 St. Vincent Street;
treasurer, Wm. Ferguson, C.A.. 150 Hope Street;
directors, Archibald Christie, Wm. Wallace, Daniel
M'Millan, David Andrew, Neil M'Neill, and G. A.
MacLaverty,
Lady Associate Branch, instituted 1883 ; Patron-
ess, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Marchioness ol
Lome.
The objects of the Club are — (1) The social and
rational enjoyment of thq members; (2) the relief
of poor natives or descendants of natives of Kintyie
resident in Glasgow and neighbourhood ; (3) the pro-
motion of education by granting medals and prize
books to the schools in Kintyre, and bursaries to
Kintyre students in the University of Glasgow.
Gentlemen are admitted free members by the pay-
ment of three guineas, either in one sum or by three
annual payments. Honorary members' fee — tw»
guineas; lady associates' fee, 10s. 6d.