He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.” Luke 16:31, RS.

We are commanded to use Christendom's own possession of the Scriptures, Moses and the Prophets and the inspired testimony about the risen Christ and his kingdom. Thus, equipped we are to preach fearlessly. Let the goats stop their ears and persecute us in their religious anguish and torment. We cannot compromise and predict any relief from God for them. But seeing we have been so greatly comforted by the Greater Abraham, Jehovah God, we are obliged to go and 'comfort all that mourn' with the comfort with which He has comforted us through Christ. Let those who have ears to listen, listen and be comforted. In that way many more straying sheep will hear the Right Shepherd's voice and turn from their beggarly, sin-diseased, downtrodden condition in this world and come into the favor of the Greater Abraham along with the remnant of the Lazarus class. W 3/1