| 单词 | on the anxious seat |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the anxious seat anxious seat n. U.S. Christian Church (now chiefly historical) (at an evangelical revival meeting) a seat, located near the front of the congregation, on which those with a troubled conscience or otherwise in need of spiritual guidance are encouraged to sit; frequently figurative in on the anxious seat: in a state of anxiety.Particularly associated with the revivalist preacher Charles G. Finney (1792–1875). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > of repentance penitent form1563 repenting stool1567 stool of repentance1581 place of repentance1582 repentance stool1591 repentance seat1771 cutty-stoola1774 Mercy seat1818 anxious seat1827 anxious bench1832 mourner's bench1834 mourner's seat1845 moaner's bench1929 1827 I. Anderson in Calvinistic Mag. Oct. 312 On Monday six took a decided public stand on the Lord's side, and about twenty-five or thirty took the anxious seats. 1837 Herald (N.Y.) 22 Mar. 1/1 Many of your readers are on the ‘anxious seat’ with respect to the account you said you should give of the Rev. Jedediah Burchard. 1876 C. G. Finney Mem. xxi. 288 I had never..until I went to Rochester, used as a means of promoting revivals, what has since been called ‘the anxious seat’. 1954 Z. N. Hurston Let. 6 Sept. in Life in Lett. (2002) 718 I am indeed on the anxious seat, but not because of me, but for your sake. 2005 T. Nettles Ready for Reformation v. 59 The anxious seat gave way to the invitation formula. Evangelists began to call people to come immediately to the front of the congregation. < as lemmas |
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