seat a modification of the older concept. The Methodists and Baptists had, up until this time, only employed it as a way of identifying sinners for prayer. By their coming forth and kneeling at the front, the sympathies of all were drawn out and united prayer for their specific cases could be made to God. But Finney saw in the anxious seat a purpose more fundamental than identifying the lost for prayer. To him it was useful as a means of grace, a test of piety. In Finney’s Lectures on Revivals of