lists, whose methods and doctrines he cordially
disliked.

[134] The two preachers were in all probability Rev. Theodore S.
Harding and Rev. Joseph Crandall. See Dr. Bill's History of
the Baptists, page 698. The people referred to as "Brooksites"
by Sheriff Bates were the founders of the Baptist denomination
in Waterborough and Canning, Queens county, N. B., over whom
Rev. Elijah Estabrooks presided as teaching elder, with Joseph
E. Brooks (or Estabrooks) as deacon, and Zebulon Estey as
clerk. An interesting account of the origin of this church is
to be found in Dr. Bill's Hist. of the Baptists pp. 594-602.
Another reference to the "Hammonites" and "Brooksites" will be
found in the Winslow Papers, page 392.

Henry Alline, the Whitefield of Nova Scotia, was born at Newport,
Rhode Island, June 14, 1748. He settled with his parents at Talmouth,
N. S., in 1760. He was a preacher of fervid eloquence, which, as in
the case of Whitefield, few who came under its influence were able to
resist. He was brought up a Congregationalist, and from that
denomination he never really separated, although he plunged into
speculations on theological points in which, to quote the late Dr. T.
Watson Smith, "the import of the words of inspiration is often lost
amidst the reveries of mysticism." One of the errors of New-Light
enthusiasm consisted in regarding mere animal impulses as leadings of
the Holy Spirit, which must be followed at all hazards. Henry Alline
was one of the best exponents of the New-Light idea. He was a good
singer as well as a fervid preacher, and in his sermons appealed to
the feelings of his hearers. "The early New-Light preachers," says Dr.
Smith, "resembled their leader. Such men, passing from settlement to
settlement, as if impelled by a species of religious knight-errantry,
could not fail to make an impression. Viewed in themselves, the
results of their visits were in certain cases painful. Families were
divided; neighbors became opposed to each other; pastors preached and
published in vain endeavor to stem the tide, and failing submitted to
the inevitable; old church organizations were broken down and new
organizations set up in their places. * * To disturb the slumbers of
the churches and arouse them to active effort seemed to be his
vocation." His doctrines were distasteful to the Presbyterians of his
day, and were termed by one of t