lifetime of preaching, traveling throughout much of Nova Scotia and what later became New Brunswick, bringing his message of the necessity for a “new birth” to the pre-Loyalist Yankees of the region. Though he organized only a small number of separate, but short-lived, congregations, his itinerant ministry and his writings exerted a profound affect on the religious life of the Maritimes and parts of northern New England. Alline sat lightly to formal ecclesiastical structures, holding together whatever