anxious bench
noun
variants
or anxious seat
1
: a seat near the pulpit reserved at some revival meetings for persons especially concerned about their spiritual condition
called also mourners' bench
2
: a state of worry or anxiety caused by uncertainty
everybody was kept on the anxious seat by this system of perpetual probation—Alva Johnston
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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