Henry Alline

Who was Henry Alline?

Henry Alline minister, evangelist, and writer, who became known as "The Apostle of Nova Scotia". Born at Newport, Rhode Island. He served as an itinerant preacher throughout Maritime Canada and Northeastern New England from 1776 to 1784. His ministry coincided with the second Great Awakening period and he became the leader of the New Light movement in the Maritimes. Later in life he caught the attention of renowned theologian John Wesley. Alline is Canada’s most prolific Eighteenth-century writer. His Journal is considered a classic of North American spiritualism and he is Canada’s first great Protestant and one of its most important theological writers. He died at age 35 and is buried at North Hampton, New Hampshire.