In that event I ask you, father, to send him to the house of my father, for I have five brothers, in order that he may give them a thorough witness, that they also should not get into this place of torment. —Luke 16:27, 28, NW.

The rich man admits Lazarus is a witness of Jehovah. He wants the Greater Abraham to send Lazarus away from his bosom to preach to his brothers in such a way and with such a message that it will not show them up to be dead toward God. It should not put them in mental torment. On the contrary, it should give them the false assurance that they are still in divine favor, reposing, like Lazarus, in the bosom of the Greater Abraham with all the promised new world blessings in view. The rich man class of today want God to make his witnesses change their unorthodox way of preaching and also the message. Soft-pedal this message of the 'day of vengeance of our God' and let up on 'overturning the strongly entrenched things' of error, false religion, worldly friendship. Spare the 'five brothers', the tormented clergy, suffer. W 3/1