I suspect that the famous man or woman in the pew would be hard-pressed to say what the difference in function is.
I speak simply as a man in the pew—a man who was in the pew yesterday.
The only effect is to empty the pews yet further.
I regard myself as a reasonably typical man in the pew.
This is the subsection that actually puts church fittings, pews, pulpits, organs, and everything else into the business scheme.
There is a question, for example, of the pulpit, and of the heating and lighting installations and so forth, and the pews.
The politics of the pew are known to fellow members of the congregation and in more exalted circles.
It is like denouncing those who have come to church for the empty pews.
