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INSTITUTIONS
GLASGOW ABSTAINERS' UNION.
Instituted, 1854.
For the promotion of temperance by the combined
agencies of education, recreation, aud restoration.
Agencies: — Domestic missions, medical lectures,
Saturday eveniog concerts, Sabbath evening lectures,
and Kilmun convalescent sea- side home.
Domestic missions are canied on in Gorbals and
Garscube road districts. The female missionaries, by
house to house visitation, and through mother/
meetings cookery and sewing classes, bands of hope,
and Gospel temperance meetings, seek to instruct the
ignorant, reclaim the fallen, and promote the tem-
poral and spiritual well-being of those living in the
poor, neglected, drunken districts of our city.
The Saturday evening concerts were started in 1854
ai a counter-attraction to the pernicious influence of
the public-house, and for fifiy-six years ihey have
continued to exercise a wholesome and elevating
influence in the community, and have contiibuted in
no small degree to the cultivation of a higher taste
for, and appreciation of, good music.
Medical lectures are arranged at which the facts
and experience in reference to the effects of alcohol in
health and disease are dealt with by some of the
leading medical men in the city.
Sabbath evening lectures for advocating the claims
of temperance and urging the Christian duty in
regard to the drinking customs of society.
Jas. G. MacKerracher, Secretary, 134 Wellington
street.
THE CANAL BOATMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY
OF SCOTLAND.
Institute, 162 Port-Dundas Road.
To promote the social, moral, and religious welfare
of canal boatmen and their families. The means
employed are — preaching the gospel in the Institute
and in the open air ; the promotion of Sabbath
schools ; the establishment of mothers' meetings,
penny banks, temperance societies, and bands of
hope ; the circulation of books, tracts, copies of the
scriptures, and general visitation. President, Leonard
Gow, Esq., LL.D. ; vice-presidents, Major F. W.
Allan and Leonard Gow, jun. ; directors, Rev.
George G. Green, M.A., Richard Gunn, Bailie
John King, A. A. Dick, Major George Stout, John
Drummocd Young, D. Dewar Brough, H. J. Stewart,
George Sutherland, Thos. Macgill, Dr. J. 0. Chisholm,
Rev. Peter Smith; treasurer, T. M. M'Crindell, 24
George Square; secretary, John Turnbull, 155 St.
Vincent Street ; superintendent, Win. H. Gilbert,
80 Grant Street. Bankers, the Commercial Bank of
Scotland, Gordon Street.
SCOTTISH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.
Objects — To uphold the principles of the Reforma-
tion. To procure government inspection of convents,
&c. To oppose popery, ritualism, and infidelity.
Lectures arranged. Protestant and anti-infidel
literature circulated. Fundj needed. Donations to
Rev. G. Thompson Diver, superintendent, 5 West
Regent Street, Gla-gow.
GLASGOW CABMEN'S MISSION.
Mr. Robt. Wilson and Mr. R. Nelson, missionaries,
tander the stiperintendenes of the Glasgow City Missioa.
GLASGOW AUXILIARY TO THE LONDON
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Chairman, W. S. Workman, Esq. ; treasurer, John
Orr, Esq., 103 Wellington Street; secretary, R. W.
Henry, 129 St. Vincent Street.
The London Missionary Society was founded in
1795 to spread the knowledge of Christ among
heathen and other unenlightened nations. It is en-
tirely unsectarian ; its fundamental principle being
" not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Epis-
copacy, or any other form of church order and
government, but the glorious Gospel of the blessed
God to the heathen, leaving it to the minds of the
persons whom God may call into the fellowship of
His Son from among them, to assume for themselves
such form of church government as to them shall
appear most agreeable to the Word of God." A large
staff of male and female missionaries, drawn from the
various evangelical denominations at home, and a
much larger staff of trained native ministers and
teachers, carry on its work in Africa, India, China,
Polynesia, &c. The annual meetings of the Glasgow
Auxiliary take place in the third week of November
each year.
WEST COAST MISSION (or, The Society for
the Promotion of Religion) IN THE WEST
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
SECOND HALF CENTURY'S WORK.
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 in remote and isolated districts beyond the
working scope of the churches. There are' twenty-
five agents engaged in this work. Its fundamental
principles are evangelical and unsectarian.
Office-bearers for 1910 — President, His Grace the
Duke of Argyll ; Vice-Presidents, Duncan Darroch,
Esq., of Torriden, Rev. Jas. Black, D. D ; Directors,
Rev. Jas. Black, D.D. (Chairman), Rev. Thos.
Adamson, D.D., Rev. H. MacKinnon, M A., Rev.
Principal M'Culloch. Rev. J. M'Leod, Rev. James
Macmillan, M.A., Rev. Evan Grant, Rev. W. M
Mackay, B.D., Rev. T. S. Macpherson, and Duncan
Campbell, Esq. Tieasurer, D. Campbell, Esq., 49
Jamaica Street; Secretary, John Duff, 200 Buchanan
street.
THE WEST OF SCOTLAND BRANCH OF
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' FAMILIES
ASSOCIATION.
President, The Duchess of Montrose, Buchanan
Castle, Drymen ; vice-president, The Countess of
Eglinton and Winton, Eglinton Castle, Iivine; hon.
treasurer, Mr. Robt. Gourlay, LL.D., 5 Marlborough
Terrace, Kelvinside ; hon. secretary, Commander G.
H. Miller Stirling, R.N., Craigbarnet, Campsie Glen ;
hon. auditor, Mr. J. W. Gourlay, C.A., 124 St.
Vincent Street, Glasgow.
GLASGOW WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO THE
ZENANA MISSION OF THE LONDON MIS-
SIONARY SOCIETY.
Treaa,, Mrs. Robt. Gott, Caimdowan, Dc»ranhill'