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May Meetings
A title applied to the annual gatherings, in May and June, of
the religious and charitable societies, to hear the annual reports and
appeals for continued or increased support. The chief meetings are the
British Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females, British and Foreign Bible
Society, British and Foreign Schools, Children's Refuge, Church Home
Mission, Church Missionary Society, Church Pastoral Aid Society, Clergy
Orphan Society. Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, Destitute
Sailors' Asylum, Field Lane Refuge, Governesses' Benevolent
Institution, Home and Colonial School Society, Irish Church Missionary
Society, London City Mission, Mendicity Society, National Temperance
League, Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews, Ragged School Union,
Religious Tract Society, Royal Asylum of St. Anne's, Sailors' Home,
Sunday School Union, Thames Church Missionary Society, United Kingdom
Band of Hope, Wesleyan Missionary Society, with many others of similar
character.
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