  Prior mused in a letter, ‘Ought I not to be trying to do a bit of “witnessing” to these crowds of heathen?’ Several of his early publications were given over to propounding the Christian message: the Christian God, he wrote, is ‘the Lord God Omnipotent, the High and Holy One who inhabiteth ETERNITY, absolutely independent of all being other than himself, and Creator, Lord and Judge of all’ (Prior 1934).