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47 R.W. Cooper, Tract Distribution: Something You Can Do, and How To Do
It, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, c. 1935, p. 10.
48 Good News, May 1923.
49 J. Springhall, Youth, Empire and Society: British Youth Movements 1883–1940
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50 C.G. Brown, ‘The Sunday-school movement in Scotland, 1780–1914’, Records
of the Scottish Church History Society, 1981, vol. 21.
51 Vance, Sinews of the Spirit, p. 2.
52 The timing of this change in the curriculum is evident in Glasgow United
Y.M.C.A. Annual Reports, 1877, pp. 14–20, and 1883, p. 15; see also Vance,
Sinews of the Spirit, p. 168.
53 Races, Games, and Balls, Drummond Tract Enterprise, tract no. 339, original
series, 1853.
54 A. Nicolson, ‘Moody and Sankey in Scotland 1873–1874: “And it’s from the
old we travel to the new”’, unpublished BA Hons. dissertation, Department
of History, University of Strathclyde, 1998.
55 North British Daily Mail, quoted in R K. Curtis, They Called Him Mr. Moody,
New York, 1962, p. 188.
56 British Messenger, September 1922, p. 105.
57 P. Bilsborough, ‘The development of sport in Glasgow, 1850–1914’, unpublished
M.Litt. thesis, University of Stirling, 1983, p. 147.
58 J. Clifford, The Dawn of Manhood, London, Christian Commonwealth, 1886;
J.T. Davidson, The City Youth, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1886; British
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59 C.G. Brown, ‘Sport and the Scottish Office in the twentieth century: the control
of a social problem’, European Sports History Review, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 164–82.
60 British Weekly, 8 July 1887, p. 152; 3 February 1888, p. 257.
61 W. Hanna (ed.), Memoirs of Thomas Chalmers, vol. 1, Edinburgh, Constable,
1854, p. 433.
62 British Weekly, 24 December 1886, p. 5.
63 For instance, see ibid., 12 December 1901.
64 The Primitive Methodist Magazine, vol. 2, November 1821, pp. 252–4.
65 C. Harvie, ‘The Covenanting tradition’, in G. Walker and T. Gallagher (eds),
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Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990; C.G. Brown, Religion and
Society in Scotland since 1707, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1997,
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66 Stirling General Associate [Antiburgher] Presbytery minutes, 11 February 1783,
Stirling Archive Services CH3/286/2.
67 J. Peddie, A Defence of the Associate Synod against the Charge of Sedition,
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68 J. Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. 8, Edinburgh, William
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69 J. Galt, Annals of the Parish, orig. 1821, reprint Edinburgh, James Thin, 1978,
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70 W. Adamson, The Life of the Rev. Fergus Ferguson, London, Simpkin, 1900, p. 76.
71 J. Brown, The Life of a Scottish Probationer: Being a Memoir of Thomas
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