methods for promoting emotions in order to force people to make “decisions” when God was not necessarily moving on hearts. At the “anxious seat” Finney pressured, preached, and argued people into “deciding for salvation.” For example, he ended one sermon by pleading: Now I must know your minds; and I want that you who have made up your minds to become Christians, and will give your pledge to make your peace with God immediately, should rise up; but that, on the contrary, those of you who are resolved