One fronted the pulpit, curving widely and arranged with pews for the accommodation of the professors and their families.
You make your way through the aisles among the pews where the regiments sit at service, marching from their barracks close by, then through a door beneath the pulpit enter a vault lighted by tapers along the wall.
We have only of late understood that some of the pews are looked upon as private property.
This distinction would need to be done away, and we have every reason to fear that some might feel personally aggrieved by the pews being taken away and replaced with benches.
There really was not room for the men and boys at the same time on the backless forms they occupied between the pews in the chancel.
Then, on red tiles, one entered between two blocks of pews of old brown unpainted oak (their doors are panels to the roof of the boys' school).
Oh, do you remember the high pews with curtains round, and the old clerk, and the pulpit like a Queen Elizabeth bedstead.
It's all high pewsand high-up windows, you know, mamma.
They were very shrewd, but it had not occurred to them to give the best pews to the sitters able to pay the most money for them.
The five pews in each corner of the house, are twelve feet six inches long.
In order for this the house must have pews instead of slips, and in the pews let the seats be loose, that they may slip from one side of the pew to the other, so as to face either pulpit, as occasion may require.
The pews of the side blocks are fourteen and a half feet long, and three feet wide.
In this burning climate the church-hours are early, and we found ourselves comfortably seated in our pews as early as eight o'clock.
The whites and blacks occupied pews promiscuously, as at Paramaribo, though there was no social admixture of races visible.
Jabez Strong had preached many a time and oft to more empty pews than full ones, while now the church was crowded to its utmost capacity on Sundays and people came to hear Mr. Douglas who had not darkened a church door for years.
By Grace of Julius Caesar Melissa sent word on Monday evening that she thought we had better go round with the subscription list for cushioning the church pews on Tuesday.
Others came to the same church with the whites, occupying the gallery or pews allotted to them in the rear of the Church.
In many Churches--I have one now particularly in mind--the white people sat in the front pews in the morning and the negroes in the back.
They will have less empty pews if they have less empty heads in the pulpit.
His prayers are not answered; he gets no help from on high, and the pews are beginning to criticize the pulpit.
The pulpit does not do all the thinking; the pews do it; nearly all of it.
I open the door of a family pew, and shut myself in; if I could occupy twenty family pews at once I might have them.
All the occupants of the pews rose; all heads were turned towards the door.
The weary inmates of the front pews felt they were reaping their rewards.
Inside it had comfortable cushioned seats all round, making it look like one of the large, square, cushioned pews still to be found in some old churches, pews which all children who have ever sat in them dearly love.
When the pews disappeared, the need for the sounding-board ceased and it has disappeared likewise.
The trumpet mouths in connection with tubes that are carried into pews occupied by deaf persons have given rise to mistakes.
The forming of square and high pews no doubt did much to interfere with ease in preaching, as every such pew became a trap for catching the waves of sound.
Of thepews in the south transept one was the property of the Lord of the Manor, the Marquis of Kirkley.
Pews are essentially Protestant, but I have seen incipient erections of the sort even in Catholic churches.
All their pews or Carrels was all finely wainscotted and very close, all but the forepart, which had carved work that gave light in at the carrel doors of wain scot.
Mrs. Chump, and a great many pews were set in commotion.
As for Pericles," said Tracy, "you need not wonder that the fellow prays in other pews than yours.
In the days of high-backed church pews with tall doors to every pew, each pew door would swell in damp weather, of course, and in continued dampness the doors of a certain church fitted quite snugly.
I feel sure that I am not putting any boys up to improper mischief in telling this story, because pews are not so often made in that way now, and there is slight danger of their having any chance to try it.
The pulpit and desk, grey and old as the pews, stood on one side of the arch leading into the chancel, which also had its grey square pews for Mr. Donnithorne's family and servants.
The choir had two narrow pews to themselves in the middle of the right-hand row, so that it was a short process for Joshua Rann to take his place among them as principal bass, and return to his desk after the singing was over.
I cannot say that the interior of Hayslope Church was remarkable for anything except for the grey age of its oaken pews--great square pews mostly, ranged on each side of a narrow aisle.
The Purbeck marble columns were fallen into decay, and hideous high pews disfigured the view.
This will make a row or two more pews above the aisle than below it.
To right of centre begin the pews of the church on each side of a broad centre aisle.
The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.
As they streamed up the broad aisle, while the pews and pillars seemed to brighten on either side, their steps were as buoyant as if they mistook the church for a ball-room, and were ready to dance hand in hand to the altar.
III After the service was over the people lingered in the church, standing in the pews and aisles, as though loath to leave.
There is no better church music in this city, and we have a beautiful service in the evening at which, all pews are free.
But there is room in the back and sides of the church, and there is the early service and the Sunday night service, when the pews are free.
Could weekly contributions, on the envelope system, be relied upon, provided the people continued to come and fill the pews of absent and outraged parishioners?
Congratulations on the fact that his congregation was increasing brought him little comfort, since a cold analysis of the newcomers who were renting pews was in itself an indication of the lack of that thing he so vainly sought.
Are not the very pews in which they sit as closed to us as their houses?
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