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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
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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 — 20,405 lads and girls, and
2731 voluntary workers. It has 83 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. Thos. Adamson, B.D.,Rev. James Brown,
M.A., Rev. John Orr, Rev. T. Eynon Davies, Rev. John
Tainsb, Rt. Hon. Lord Overtoun, Hon. Jas. Bell,
Lord Provost, Sir Jas. King, Bart., LL. D., Sir Wm.
Collins, 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, William
.1. H. Adam, R. Fotheringham, H. K. Bromhead,
T. S. Brown, Jas. Lockie, A. Sinclair, jun., Thomas
Forsyth, Thomas Kay, Thomas M'Murtrie, David
Rodger, David Moses, George Connell, Charles Keay,
and Robert Oliphaut, directors. Committee Rooms,
The Christian Institute, 70 Bothwell street.
THE GOSPEL ARMY MISSION AND EAST-
END CHARITABLE RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
Head-quartprs, Globe Halls, Tobago Street, Glas-
gow. Hon. president, Councillor Robert Starke, 43
W. Regent Street and Burcside, Rutherglen; general
superintendent, Mr. Samuel Evans (residence, 126
Onslow Drive, Dennistoun).
The above Organization was instituted in August,
1889, with the sole object of elevating the sadly-
neglected and submerged masses in Scotland's slums.
Daring the past two winters the association has dis-
tributed nearly 200,000 free meals to the starving
poor of the East-eod. Numerous evicted and home-
less families have heen restored to the comforts of a
home by having iheir rents paid; hundreds of men,
women, and children have been clothed ; and almost
nightly poor prodigals are found weeping their way to
the Cross; and one by one they are brought to their
Heavenly Father's Home of love and usefulness. The
Scottish Weeklij says :— " In the East-end of Gla'*gow
there is a missionary agency at work which bds fair
to accomplish what the School Board and the churches
have failed to do — to dissipate the moral and re-
ligious darkness which has brooded, for close on a
century, over this benighti^d district. The deep moriil
gloom and ihe religious indifference which prevail are
giving way before the steady, unrelenting work of the
Gospel Army Mis-,ion, founded only some four years
ago, by Mr. Simuel Evans — as brave and heroic a
soldier of ihe Cross as he was when he fought his
country's hattles, under the British flag, in far-off
Zululand. This army mission has done splendid work
since its formation, work within the scope of every re
ligious denomination in the city, but work thnrouilily
and completely neglected. Mr. Evans and bis men
bave assailed as was nnver done before, the citadels of
crime and immorality, and have given new meaning to
the conventional phrase of raising the masses and
alleviating the condition of the poor. Mr. Evans
does not believe that his fmictions as an ambassador
of the Good Tidings begin and erd with mere empty
talk; he goes further, and carries his emancipatory
theories into practice. No man, either lay or cleric,
has done more in the city, towards carrying out the-
injunctions of the Founder of Christianity than he —
of helping the poor and the needy, and visiting the
sick and the afflicted, and we ventur?, to predict, that
in the long roll of pioneers and martyrs that will pass
before the historian of Scottish philanthropy for the
nineteenth century, no name will ^hine with greater
lustre than that of Mr. Samuel Evans. Last winter,
when Glasgow was parsing through one of her periodic
seasons of distress, when f.he gauut skeleton of famine
stalked noitelesJy, as if silken shod, through the
dark regions of 'slumdom,' tae first man to realise
the magnitude of the crisis was Mr. Evans, who, un-
aided, supplied 100,(100 meals." Legacies and do-
nations of money, food, and cloihiufj are urgently
needed. P. 0. orders and cheques to be crossed — -
Clydesdale Bank, Limited.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD
TEMPLARS— GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND.
OBJECTS.
Total ahstinence from all intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, and the absolute prohibition of the manu-
facture, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors
to be used as a beverage.
No person can be admitted to membership in this
Order unless he believes in the existence of Almighty
God as the Ruler and Governor of all things, and is
willing to take the pledge for life. Under this rule all
classes are welcomed.
There are 700 adult lodges in Scotland, with a
membershipof nearly 40,000, and 400 juvenile Iodides,
with over 30,000 members. Each lodge meets weekly
for the transaction of business and the initiation of
new members. The Order is sustained by the weekly
contribations of its members. A regular staff of
agents is employed, who address meetings through-
out the country.
Tom Honeyman, 72 Great Clyde St., Glasgow,
grand secretary.
THE M^ORKTNG MEN'S MISSION TO THE
FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN, AND AGED
POORS' HOLIDAY HOME, MOUNT PLEA-
SANT COTTAGE, KIRN.
8 Watson Street, Glasgow.
President, Rev. Professor Manklin, F.S.S, ; secre-
tary, Henry Smith ; treasurer, Thomas Martin.
The Society is evangelical in its doctrines. Tin-
sectarian in its operations, and pioneering in its
character : reliant on the Word and Spirit of the
living God for its success. Meetings are held every
S 'bba'h and Wednesday evening. Free teas are
given to the aged poor, and once a month a free
breakfast to friendless and fallen females. All com-
munications to the lady superintendent.
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