Until 1783, Alline travelled extensively throughout the Planter-settled areas of Nova Scotia, the Saint John River Valley, and the Chignecto area. His effort to reach the people was Herculean by travelling mostly by foot and at times on horseback to reach every possible hamlet. His ministry was hugely successful and drew the attention and grudging admiration of even those who opposed him like Simeon Perkins of Liverpool, who stated, "Never did I behold Such an Appearance of the Spirit of God moving upon the people... Since the time of the Great Religious Stir in New England many years ago." By 1783, even Alline's opponents acknowledged that the whole colony outside of Halifax had come under his revivalist influence. Despite his success, he was not accepted by all those he encountered. Opposition rose against him from those who thought he was a destabilizing factor to the day's social order: primarily government representatives in Halifax and the Anglican clergy that was fully integrated into the governmental power structure. Ministers of various other Protestant sects also opposed him on theological grounds, the New Light's jettisoning of an educated and "properly"-ordained ministry, and assuredly the loss of parishioners that eroded both tithing flows and the clergy's status in their community's hierarchy. A significant result of the revival was that it stimulated much more frequent contact among settlements, as Alline travelled to places that none had gone before.