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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
chairman of directors; Jas. M'Micbael, Esq., vice-
chairman; W. Rounsfell Brown, B.L., 227 West
George St., hon. secy. (Tel. 348 Argjle) ; Jas. Wilson,
C.A., 135 Wellington street, hon. treas. (Tel. 720,
Douglas); organising secy, and collector, Thos. M.
Walton; office, Christian Institute, 70 Bothwell st.
GLASGOW HOME MISSION UNION.
Objects — Visiting and reclaiming the non-church-
going of the city.
Organization — All the evangelical churches of the
city willing to associate and work on recognized lines.
Method — City divided into sections, each section
subdivided for congregational endeavours.
General Council: — (80 members') Rev. Dr. John
Steel, convener; James M'Michael and Alexander
Lamberton, Kirkton House, Pollokshields, vice-
conveners; Godfrey Pattison, 53 Bothwell St., treas.;
Messrs. John Stuart and P. B. Brjce, 46 Buchanan
Street, secrelaries.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD
TEMPLARS— GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND.
OBJECTS.
Total abstinence 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 720 adult lodges in Scotland, with a
membership of 50,000, and 460 juvenile lodges,
with over 47,000 members. Each lodge meets weekly
for the transaction of business and the initiation of
new members. The Order is sustained by the weekly
contributions of its members. A regular and an
occasional staff of agents is employed, who address
meetings throughout the country, and a monthly
magazine is published — The Good Templar.
Tom Honeyman, 40 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow,
grand secretary.
GLASGOW & WEST OF SCOTLAND MISSION
TO THE FRIENDLESS, AND INDUSTRIAL
HOME FOR WOMEN.
Headquarters, 8 Watson Street, City.
Hon. Pres., ex-Provost M 'Lean, Central Chambers;
hon. vice-president, Robert Brown, M.D., Belliaven
House, Pollokshields ; president, Walter Dow, Esq.,
G Dalziel Drive, Pollokshields ; treasurer, Thomas
Martin, Esq., 4 Emily Place ; solicitor, John Hope,
Esq., 173 St Vincent Street; lady superintendent,
Mrs. Henry Smith ; auditors, Paterson & Steel,
C.A., 156 St Vincent St.
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 teasare given weekly
during the cold weather. 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 St.,
THE SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.
Publithing Offices, 108 Hope Street.
Object — The entire abolition of the drinking system.
President, Alex. P. Forrester Paton, J.P., Alloa;
vice-presidents, Rev. Principal George C. Hutton,
D.D., Rev. James Stewart, D.D., Rev. J. C. Russell,
D.D., Rev. Fergus Ferguson, D.D., Messrs.
D. J. Macfie, J.P., John Wilson, ex-M.P., J.P.,
W. Cairney, J.P., R. Hunter Craig, M.P., James
Guthrie, J. P., Robert Reid, A. Cameron Corbett,
M.P., Sir Samuel Chisholm, LL.D., J.P., ex-Provost
Jas. Clark, J. P., Neil Carmichael, M.D., A. S. Cook,
and ex- Provost Moncur, J. P.
Directors, Messrs. Alexander Lamberton, J.P.,
T. Dunnachie, George Wolfe, J.P., John Muir, Wm.
Davidson, Archibald Stewart, Rev. William Ross,
Rev. George Gladstone, Rev. John T. Burton, M.A.,
Robt. Whitson, J. P., A. K. Rodger, J.P., WilHam
J. Wood, John Smith, Thomas Davidson, Andrew
Forbes, P.O., Rev. W. S. Swanson, M.A., Principal
Wright, R. Cameron, Thos. 0. Niven, John Lusk,
ex- Provost Grieve, J.P., Provost Alex. Findlay, J.P.,
and Rev. J. Bell Henderson, B.D.
Chairman, Rev. George Gladstone ; vice-chairmen,
Robert Whitson and Rev. John T. Burton, M.A. ;
treasurer, Alex. Lamberton ; secretary and manager,
C. R. Irving.
THE EAST-END GOSPEL MISSION
(Church and hall — Suffolk Street and South St.
Mungo Street, Calton.)
And Children's Sea-Side Home and Retkeat,
Mount Pleasant, Dunoon.
This Mission has for its object the elevation, re-
ligiously and socially, of the masses of the city slums,
principally aiming at those who know no church or
other place of worship. In addition to preaching the
Gospel, whereby outcasts and fallen are brought t^o a
knowledge of the truth, their temporal wants are
cared for. Daring periods of distress, the Mission
has been the means of saving many poor families
from utter want and ruin, and to-day numbers are
hard-working respectable members of society, who,
if solely left to themselves, would be on the downward
path of sin aud misery. The accounts of the Mission
are made up and vouched for periodically.
The Children's Home and Retreat at Dunoon has
proved a great boon to the little ones. The greatest
care is taken of them. Moral instruction, medical
attendance during illness, &c.
The Mission is supported by volnntary subscrip-
tions and donations, and a copy of the Report
with certified abstracts of accounts is sent to each
subscriber. T. G. A. Scott, general superintendent
and founder.