ich I desire to spend my life. This I recommend to my
father. But I stop, perhaps I offend. I did not think of saying half
so much. But this is my darling topic, and therefore I must beg you to
bear with me." He was charitable towards others, though he differed
with them in religious belief, and with commendable liberality, he
held both ministers and people of the Anglican faith in the highest
esteem, and associated with the Baptists often preaching in their
churches, even going so far, though believing in the validity of
sprinkling as a mode of baptism, as to baptize by immersion, those who
desired that mode of having the ordinance administered. Whilst holding
tenaciously the doctrines and institutions of Methodism, he loved
those who were united to him by a common faith.

During the first years of William Black's evangelistic labors, when
several hundreds were converted and had joined the church, he was
confronted with Antinomian teaching, through several visits from Henry
Alline, who resided at Falmouth, Nova Scotia. Being called of God to
preach in 1776, Alline itinerated through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
and Prince Edward Island, preaching a strange mixture of doctrines,
which unsettled the people in the churches, and many withdrew and
formed the denomination of New Lights or Allinites, a body which had
some influence until his death at Northampton in New Hampshire, United
States, on February 2nd, 1784, when it gradually declined and was
absorbed by other denominations, especially the Baptists. Alline
published his peculiar views in a volume, entitled "Two mites on some
of the most important and most disputed points of divinity cast into
the treasury for the poor and needy, and committed to the perusal of
the unprejudiced and impartial reader, by Henry Alline, servant of the
Lord to His churches." A reply to this book was published in a volume
by the Rev. Jonathan Scott, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, which contains
copious extracts from it. Alline misrepresented all the leading
doctrines of Christianity, assailing predestination and election,
maintaining the freedom of man's will and upholding the final
perseverance of the saints, emphasizing strongly conversion, and that
the soul is at the same moment completely sanctified, while sin
remains in the body; denying the resurrection of the body, and though
sometimes practising water baptism, he denied its utility. He was a
man of good address, eloquent of speech and of