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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
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THE SCOTTISH PROTESTANT ALLIANCE.
Objects — The promotion and defence of our com-
on Christianity, the exposure of Romanism and In-
ielity, the instruction of Roman Catholics in Bible
Tith, and the maintenance of the principles of the
cottish Reformation. President, Sir Jas. Colquhoun,
art, of Colquhoun and Luss ; W. C. Maughan, J.P.,
lairman of directors; Jas. M'Michael, Esq., vice-
lairman; W. Rounsfell Brown, B.L., 227 West
eoreje st., hon. secy. (Tel. 348Argyle; Corp. Tel.
320^); James Wilson, C.A., 135 Wellington
reet, hon. treas. (Tel. 720, Douglas) ; organising
cy. and collector, Thos. M. Walton ; office, Christian
|, istitute, 70 Bothwell street.
WEST OF SCOTLAND PEACE AND
ARBITRATION SOCIETY.
President, James Clark, J.P., Chapel House,
aisley; secretary and treasurer, William James
,egg, writer, 150 Hope Street.
The object of this Society is to promote peace
id goodwill among men by the recognition and
'"^actice of the principles of peace and arbitration in
e settlement of international and industrial dis-
ites. The Society is supported by voluntary con-
ibutions, and all persons ■willing to join it are
vited to send in their names to the secretary.
The secretary will also be glad to arrange for
""ctures on the subject of peace and arbitration.
oif SCOTTISH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.
Objects — To uphold the principles of the Reforma-
m. To procure government inspection of convents.
To oppose popery, ritualism, and infidelity,
ectures arranged. Protestant and anti-infidel
terature circulated. Funds needed. Donations to
ev. G. Thomson Diver, superintendent, 65 Oswald
reet, Glasgow.
GERMAN SEAMEN'S MISSION.
eading Room, " Deutsches Vereinshaus," 208 Ren-
frew Street.
imServices, Christian Institute, 70 Bothwell Street.
f'resideut of the Committee, J. N. Kiep, Esq.,
'" I German Imperial Consul.
^ issionary, Rev. R. Miinchmeyer, pastor of the Ger-
man Ev. Congregation; ho., 208 Renfrew Street.
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WEST OF SCOTLAND BIBLE SOCIETY,
149 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Sir James King, Bart, president; Rev. T. B. W.
^ iven, D.D., of Pollokshields, and Rev. Robert Blair,
[I I.D., of St. John's, Edinburgh, secretaries ; T. W.
T Watson, C.A., 149 St. Vincent Street, treasurer.
Applications for grants may be made to the secre-
iries or treasurer.
GLASGOW CABMEN'S MISSION.
Mr. Robt. Wilson and Mr. R. Nelson, missionaries,
iilnder the superintendence of the Glasgow City Mission.
GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
The object of this Society shall be to promote the
spiritual welfare of the poor of this city and its
neighbourhood, by employing persons of approved
piety, and otherwise properly qualified, to visit the
poor in their own houses for the purpose of religious
discourse, and to use other means of diffusing and
increasing among them a knowledge of evangelical
truth.
There are twenty-six missionaries employed.
President, Hon. J. C. Burns ; secretary, Rev. John
Renfrew, 200 Buchanan Street ; treasurer, Donald
Fisher, Esq., 24 St. Vincent Place.
LADIES' AUXILIARY TO THE GLASGOW
CITY MISSION.
Lady Blythawood, president; Mrs. D. G. Frame,
11 Gt. Western Terrace, Kelvinside, and Mrs. R. S.
Allan, 15 Woodside Terrace, vice-presidents; Mrs.
Robert Blyth, 1 Montgomerie Quadrant, Kelvinside,
treasurer; Mr. Robert Gladstone, 200 Buchanan
Street, secretary; 141 collectors.
MIDDLE DISTRICT SABBATH SCHOOL
UNION.
This Union is affiliated to the Scottish National
Sabbath School Union, and meets bi-monthly — second
Tuesday of February, April, June, August, October,
and December. Secretaries, W. Goldup Wood, 25
Thornwood Drive, Partick, W., and David Murchie,
181 Parliamentary Road.
WESTERN DISTRICT SABBATH-SCHOOL
UNION.
(Instituted 1845.)
Office-bearers for 1904-1905.— President, Wm.
Smith, Esq. ; vice-president, Robert Paterson, Esq, ;
treasurer, Archibald Carswell, 104 Dumbarton Road;
secretaries, Charles Fairley, 114 Berkeley Street,
and Gordon Strathern, 7 Granville Street, West.
The Directors and Representatives meet in the
Deacons' Court room of St. Matthew's U.F. Church,
Bath Street, on the last Tuesday of January, March,
May, September, and November.
GLASGOW NORTH-WESTERN DISTRICT
SABBATH SCHOOL UNION.
(Instituted 1872.)
The ordinary business meetings of the Board are
held in a hall of U.F. St. Stephen's Church, Steven
Street, on the third Tuesday in the months of
January, March, May, September, and November,
at 8 p m.
MISSION TO THE ITALIANS IN GLASGOW.
Hon. treasurer, Wm. M. Wisely, Esq., The Scot-
tish Provident Institution, 19 St. Vincent Place.