In his journal, he reported participating in the favourite pastime of the youths of the day of frolicking, which included dancing, partying, and drinking. Alline admitted to being one of the ringleaders of the raucous activities. Despite his leadership in the frolicks, he wrestled with his participation and felt it was perhaps a debauched life and contrary to finding a path to a more godly life: "I felt guilty as ever, and sometimes could not close my eyes for hours after I had got home to my bed, on account of the guilt I had contracted the evening before. O what snares were these frolicks and young company to my soul, and had God not been more merciful to me than I was to myself, they would have proved my fatal and irrevocable ruin."