Anxious bench
150Doing the Right Thing
26 Dec 2022
14:06¶ 42
“He was the first one to institutionalize the anxious bench. The Methodist circuit riders had kind of come up with this. He took it…”
14:41¶ 44
“You’re right under the preacher’s glare and so the emotional tension is higher. It’s another way of manipulating the emotion of the thing.”
14:50¶ 45
“Practically, you know who your audience is and you can target them.”
81Choice and Children
30 Aug 2021
9:19¶ 23
“The Methodists began to use it, not in the modern form. They invented something called the anxious seat or the anxious bench, and it…”
30:09¶ 85
“So we can’t lay it all at the doorstep of Finney, but he did not help. He systematized, he popularized, and it looked good.…”