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Henry Alline
Henry Alline (pronounced Allen) (June 14, 1748 – February 2, 1784) was a minister, evangelist, and writer who became known as "the Apostle of Nova Scotia."
Born at Newport, Rhode Island, he became a New England Planter and served as an itinerant preacher throughout Maritime Canada and Northeastern New England from 1776 to 1784. His ministry coincided with the Second Great Awakening, and he became the leader of the New Light movement in the Maritimes.
Later in life, Alline caught the attention of renowned theologian John Wesley, but it was not for good reason. Wesley in one letter said that Alline was "far from being a man of sound understanding" and his work was not something Wesley wanted to "waste his time answering."
He died at 35 and is buried at North Hampton, New Hampshire.
The early 1740s to 1784 was a period of struggle for hegemony in North America by Britain, significant religious upheaval in northeastern North America, and ultimately revolution in the Thirteen Colonies.
Just before Alline's birth, the War of the Austrian Succession came to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). Northeastern North America had been pulled into the conflict by King George's War and achieved a significant victory with the capture of the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1745, only to have it returned to France during treaty negotiations. An uneasy peace remained between Britain and France. By the mid-1750s, conflict broke out again resulting in the Seven Years' War. Nova Scotia's population was decimated by the expulsion of the Acadians.
With the removal of the common enemy, France, a North American paradigm shift occurred in the political relationship between the British metropole and its New World colonies. The deteriorating relationship, in due course, resulted in the American Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War.
The Second Great Awakening began in the last quarter of the 18th century. This period of evangelicalism heavily influenced the middle and lower levels of society. The movement generally advocated that the individual must have a direct relationship with God and that all people can be saved. For people living in New England, that was counter to their Calvinism whose idea is that only a preordained elected few would be saved. The Awakening's new ideas caused the new born faithful (New Lights) to shun vices and evil pastimes to live more personally in the Christian ethic.
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Henry Alline
Henry Alline (pronounced Allen) (June 14, 1748 – February 2, 1784) was a minister, evangelist, and writer who became known as "the Apostle of Nova Scotia."
Born at Newport, Rhode Island, he became a New England Planter and served as an itinerant preacher throughout Maritime Canada and Northeastern New England from 1776 to 1784. His ministry coincided with the Second Great Awakening, and he became the leader of the New Light movement in the Maritimes.
Later in life, Alline caught the attention of renowned theologian John Wesley, but it was not for good reason. Wesley in one letter said that Alline was "far from being a man of sound understanding" and his work was not something Wesley wanted to "waste his time answering."
He died at 35 and is buried at North Hampton, New Hampshire.
The early 1740s to 1784 was a period of struggle for hegemony in North America by Britain, significant religious upheaval in northeastern North America, and ultimately revolution in the Thirteen Colonies.
Just before Alline's birth, the War of the Austrian Succession came to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). Northeastern North America had been pulled into the conflict by King George's War and achieved a significant victory with the capture of the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1745, only to have it returned to France during treaty negotiations. An uneasy peace remained between Britain and France. By the mid-1750s, conflict broke out again resulting in the Seven Years' War. Nova Scotia's population was decimated by the expulsion of the Acadians.
With the removal of the common enemy, France, a North American paradigm shift occurred in the political relationship between the British metropole and its New World colonies. The deteriorating relationship, in due course, resulted in the American Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War.
The Second Great Awakening began in the last quarter of the 18th century. This period of evangelicalism heavily influenced the middle and lower levels of society. The movement generally advocated that the individual must have a direct relationship with God and that all people can be saved. For people living in New England, that was counter to their Calvinism whose idea is that only a preordained elected few would be saved. The Awakening's new ideas caused the new born faithful (New Lights) to shun vices and evil pastimes to live more personally in the Christian ethic.