Mourners Bench
Mourners bench plural mourners benches a bench seat rail pew etc.
Mourners bench. A bench for mourners or repentant sinners placed at the front in a revival meeting. Sarah is 8 years old and her single goal is to be baptized in the summer of 1964. The practice was instituted by john wesley the founder of the methodist church.
Set aside for mourners and repentant sinners and is usually found at the front of a revival meeting or evangelical church. The mourner s bench also called an anxious bench was a ritualized prayer technique used extensively by nineteenth century christian revivalists. That night i was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners bench with all the other young sinners langston hughes.
American heritage dictionary of the english language fifth edition. 4 generations are at the center of this story. Mourner s bench is a well researched and commendable debut effort that expands and complicates the body of literature written about the civil rights movement by asking readers to lend equal consideration and weight to the roles age gender and religion played.