Mourners Bench

The mourner s bench also called an anxious bench was a ritualized prayer technique used extensively by nineteenth century christian revivalists.

Mourners bench. That night i was escorted to the front row and placed on the. 1912 dn 3 583 win mourners. 1909 dn 3 350 eal wga mourner s bench. 1911 wright barbara worth 20 co when the rush for the mourners bench come i unlimbered an headed the stampede pronto.

A bench for mourners or repentant sinners placed at the front in a revival meeting. Finney perhaps the most influential. Heaven comes to earth and earth goes to heaven at the same. The practice was instituted by john wesley the founder of the methodist church.

Mourner s bench is her extraordinary debut. The dancer sitting on the mourner s bench reflects upon the end of his community and the horror of its slaughter. View hide repertory credits choreographer talley beatty run time 6 minutes premiere restaging michael joy lighting al crawford. Set aside for mourners and repentant sinners and is usually found at the front of a revival meeting or evangelical church.

English noun. 1940 salvation by langston hughes that night i was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners bench with all the other young sinners who had not yet been brought. Mourners bench synonyms mourners bench pronunciation mourners bench translation english dictionary definition of mourners bench. Aimed at securing the immediate and dramatic conversion of sinners the technique originated as part of the new measures conceived by new york s charles g.

You re now in sacred time in a sacred space. It s where god would meet you. Mourners bench definition at religious revival meetings a bench or seat at the front of the church or room set apart for mourners or penitent sinners seeking salvation. Mourners bench plural mourners benches.

The front bench or seat in a church where the mourners are assembled. 1907 dn 3 233 nwar mourner s bench. The mourners bench also known as the mercy seat or anxious bench in methodist and other evangelical christian churches is a bench located in front of the chancel. If you enjoy a powerful story told with rich language like that of jamaica kincaid then you will be thrilled by sanderia faye s novel.

When you went to the mourner s bench the theology was this. And a mourner s bench is a lot easier to move than any other piece of church furniture and equipment. Normal time normal space that gets suspended. With mourner s bench sanderia faye announces herself as a bold at times intoxicating original voice in american fiction this is a stunning debut dennis lehane author of gone baby gone mystic river and shutter island chapter by chapter without ever seeming to struggle mourner s bench completely immerses us in small town 1960 s arkansas a time and place of racial.

Set to the traditional spiritual there is a balm in gilead. In mourner s bench she chronicles the civil rights movement through the eyes of a child coming of age in the turbulent years of 1964 1965.