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New Lights†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1Hist.

a fundamentalist evangelical sect first established in Cornwallis, N.S., during the 1780's by Henry Alline.

Quotations

1832

Let us leave abstract points of Christian doctrine to theological disputants, and the raving of new lights. . . .

1933

Congregationalists, Presbyterians, New Lights, Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, all held their meetings in by-gone days in the old Meeting house [in Shelburne, N.S.]. . . .

1949

Professor Clark has brought together the variations on these Protestant themes in all of what is now Canada from 1760 to 1900, from the New Lights to the Salvation Army.

2 — Attributive uses.

Quotations

1816

. . . many thought I was too legal, and certainly they had cause to think so, if the following doctrines industriously propagated in the settlements by some new-light preachers were genuine. . . .

1933

It was here in Cornwallis that Henry Alline established the first of his "new light churches.--It was built in 1786 on what was known by the euphonious name of "Jaw-bone Corner."

1949

Meanwhile Henry Alline, the New Light evangelist, was shattering the less sedate Dissenting congregations of the Nova Scotian out-ports and back country.