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The Sermons of Henry Alline ed. by George A. Rawlyk (review)

times. Certainly his religious ideas were conditioned by his responses to both New England Calvinism and to the emotional upheaval of the Great Awakening, but growing up in the pre-Loyalist settlement of Falmouth, NS, where there was no school, church, or seldom any preaching, this self-taught, fervent evangelist was hardly a representative figure. He was in fact an extraordinary individual consumed by a mystical vision of Christ's love and compelled by this vision to save humankind from everlasting damnation. At the age of twenty-seven, tubercular and unmarried, he left his father's farm with the conviction to lead the New Light revival in the Maritime colonies. At thirty-five he died, as he was about to embark on a mission to New England. Alline was in fact a remarkable man in spite of his place and times. Although Alline's charismatic impact is only a matter of historical record now, something of his religious vision is preserved in his writings. His journal and some of his hymns have appeared as volumes in the Baptist Heritage in Atlantic Canada series, and now his three extant sermons have been added to that series. In form the sermons are conventional: they begin with a biblical text and move on to a central message of revival. What distinguishes them is their visionary fervour. Alline believed that reborn men and women would return to their original spiritual form before there was separation from God or division into male and female. Alline exhorts his listeners to leave behind the carnal