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INSTITUTIONS
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 properly qualified
missioners 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 thirty- three missioners employed, including
a lady missioner. Right Hon. Lord Inverclyde, presi-
dent ; Rev. J. Dykes Lang, superintendent and joint-
secretary ; Mr. Robert Gladstone, joint- secretary, 200
Buchanan Street; John Watson, Esq., treasurer,
24 St Vincent Place.
CEYLON AND INDIA GENERAL MISSION.
Head-quarters — 46 Beresford Road, Highbury,
London.
Secretary and Treasurer, David Gardiner.
The mission is Evangelistic and Unsectarian in
character, and its special object is the evangelisation
of the unreached towns and villages of Ceylon and
South India. It is supported by the free-will
offerings of the Lord's people. There are 26 Euro-
pean and 44 native workers.
Glasgow Centre — Hon. Secretary, Jas. A. Logan,
Lesteric, Riddrie.
" GUILD OF AID. "
71 Coburg Street, Glasgow.
Object — To help the needy poor, especially those
belonging to the south side of Glasgow, by such
means and in such ways as shall encourage them
in habit3 of industry, thrift, temperance, self-help-
fulness and self-respect.
President, Bailie Arch. Campbell ; vice-president,
Mr. William Hislop, M.A., LL.B. ; hon. treasurer,
Mr. And. Innes, Bank of Scotland ; hon. auditors,
Messrs. Paterson & Benzie, C.A. ; hon. secretary,
Mr. George P. Strathern, writer, 207 West George
Street; committee, Bailie Montgomery, Dr. John
Barlow, Dr. J. T. Kilpatrick-Thomson, Messrs.
W. H. Raeburn,'C. R. Mackintosh, and J. Gordon
Webster.
Manager, Mrs. Balvaird-Hewett, 71 Coburg St.
CHILDREN OF ZION CHURCH.
Harvey Street, Paisley Road, W.
Pastors — Charles Northup and Robert Ewing.
Amongst the points of our faith and practice
which we emphasise are the following: — The supre-
macy of God the Eternal Father ; the virgin birth of
His only begotten Son ; the power of the Cross ;
the operation of the spirit in the church ; brotherly
love ; charity towards all men ; practical godliness ;
and the glorious hope of the near coming of Christ to
translate His saints, to destroy satan, to abolish
death, to renew the earth, and to reign for ever on
David's throne.
Services, to which all are cordially invited — Lord's
days at 2 and 7 p.m. ; Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Secretary, W. B. Macfarlane, 32 Clifford Street.
PEACE SOCIETY,
For the promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace.
Established in London 1816.
Scottish Agency — 271 Langside Road, Glasgow.
George Aitken, Agent and Lecturer.
Objects : — To circulate literature and to diffuse
information tending to show that war is inconsistent
with the spirit of Christianity and the true interests
of mankind ; and to point out the means best calcu-
lated to maintain permauent and universal Peace
upon the basis of Christian principles.
Monthly Organs; The Herald of Peace. The
Olive Leaf.
Section for Juniors: The Band of Peace.
Peace literature upon application ; Peace lectures
and addresses by arrangement.
CHRISTIAN WORKERS' ANTI-INFIDEL
ASSOCIATION.
Inaugurated November, 1907.
Objects — To declare and defend Christianity.
To oppose infidelity and immorality. Annual fee, Is.
All communications to William Cowan Cochrane,
165 Calder Street, Govanhill, Glasgow.
CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
INCORPORATION OF BAKERS OF
GLASGOW.
Office-bearers for the year from September, 1909,
to September, 1910 : — Deacon, Wm. Bannerman,
79 Virginia Street, Glasgow ; collector, John Currie,
Kelvinside Bakery, 19 Arden Street, Maryhill ; late
deacon, Alexander Munro, 12 Seton Terrace, Dennis-
toun ; late collector, Thomas W. Morrison, 29
Waterloo Street, Glasgow ; master court, Peter M.
Hamilton, Robert A. Peacock, Alexander Bilsland,
Andrew Buchanan, William Pollock, John Watson,
and Ebenezer B. Primrose ; hon. members, ex-deacon
convener James T. Tullis and ex-deacon convener
James Macfarlane ; clerk, James Ness, LL.B., 100
West Regent Street; officer, Andrew Granger, 34
Blythswood Drive.
THE SOCIETY OF DEACONS AND FREE
PRESESES.
This society was instituted in 1780. Its object is
to afford pecuniary aid to such of its members or their
widows as may be in destitute circumstances.
John Hurll, writer, 142 St. Vincent Street, clerk.
MISSION COAST HOME, SALTCOATS.
The object of this Home is to afford a gratuitous
care and treatment hydropathically to the suffering of
any country or clime, and it is wholly supported by
voluntary contributions unsolicited. All communi-
cations to be addressed to Mr. Robert Boyd, Oak-
field, Saltcoats.