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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE EAST-END GOSPEL MISSION
(Church and hall^ — Suffolk Street and South St.
Mungo Street, Calton.)
And Children's Sea-Side Home and Retreat,
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
otlier place of worship. In addition to preaching the
Gospel, whereby outcasts and fallen are brought to a
knowledge of tlie 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 and 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 taktn of them Moral instiuction, medical
attendance during illness, &c.
The Mission is supported by voluntary 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.
NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.
Glasgow: 224 West George Street.
Edinburgh : 5 St. Andrew Square.
President, The Right Hon. Lord Overtonn.
Treasurers— James Drummond, C.A., 58 Bath
Street, Glasgow; A. Scott, C.A., 2 York Buildings,
Edinburgh. Auditors — Moores, Carson, & Watson,
C.A.. Glasgow; T. Bennet Clark, C.A., Edinburgh.
Secretaries — W. J. Slowan, 224 W. George Street,
Glasgow, and Rev. J. S. Nisbet, 5 St. Andrew
Square, Edinburgh
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, .5.3 Bothwell St., treas.;
Messrs. John Stuart and P. B. Bryce, 46 Buchanan
Street, secretaries.
GLASGOW ABSTAINERS' UNION.
Schemes of operation. — Sabbath Evening Sermons;
City Hall Saturday Evening Concerts; Band of
Hope; Domestic Missions; Sea-Side Convalescent
Home, &c. &c. ; James Airlie, secy., 134 VVellington
treet.
GLASGOW MAGDALENE INSTITUTION FOR
THE REPRESSION OF VICE AND THE
REFORMATION OF PENITENT FEMALES.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
Office and Receiving House, 16 and 17 Stirling Road.
Sir J. N. Cuthbertson, President ; Right Hon. Lord
Inverclyde, The Right Hon. J. A. Campbell, M.P.,
Rev. Principal Douglas, D.D., James S. Napier, Esq.,
and John Wdson, Esq., Vice-presidents; J. Gray, M.D.,
Physician ; A. Sloan, C.A., 190 W. George St., Hon.
Treasurer; R. W. Sinclair, Secy., 15 Stirling Road;
and a Board of 40 directors. Subscriptions, Dona-
tions, and Legacies in aid of the Institution will be
thankfully received by the Hon. Treasurer, the Secre-
tary, or by the British Linen Co.'s Bank, Queen St.
Information as to the objects and operations of the
Society may be obtained from Mr. R. W. Sinclair,
Secretary, to whom all communications relating to
the objects and business of the Institution should be
addressed. The original Glasgow Magdalene Asylum
was merged in this institution in 1867.
Applicants for admission are received at the Pro-
bationary Home, 17 Stirling Road. This Home ac-
commodates 50 inmates, and Lochburn Home, Mary-
hill, gives accommodation for 120 inmates. At
both Homes laundry work is carried on. £800 of
subscriptions are required annually.
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.
There are 740 adult lodges in Scotland, with a
membership of 52,000, 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 and donations from
friends of the cause. 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.
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THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY
FOR CHINA.
Hon. president, Lord Polwarth; president. Prof.
A. Crum Brown, F.R.S. ; vice-presidents, Hugh
Brown, Esq., and Rev. James Black, D.D. ; hon.
treasurer in Glasgow, James Drummond, Esq., C.A.,
58 Bath Street ; hon. secretary in Glasgow, Robert A.
Moody, LL B., 163 West George Street.
Object: — To promote Christianity among the
Chinese by aiding in the preparation and circulation,
in their own language, of (1) suitable publications
of a distinctly religious character; (2) general
literature written from a Christian standpoint ;
scientific and other works suited for the more
cultured classes ; .ind school and other text-books ;
and (3) literature, chiefly religious, illustrated and
otherwise, specially suited for Chinese women and
children.