"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my apostate friends say there is no Faithful and Discreet Slave.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE WATCHTOWER it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Faithful and Discreet Slave.?
"VIRGINIA KNORR.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your apostate friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of this ungodly internet age. They no longer believe what they read in the pages of our dear Watchtower. They think that nothing can exist which is not laden by facts and proof and evidence. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the bountiful and ever-changing light, which we call NEW – as in New Light.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Faithful and Discreet Slave. It exists as certainly as meetings and field service and conventions exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest potential for life everlasting. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Faithful and Discreet Slave. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in a Faithful and Discreet Slave! You might as well not believe in prohibiting blood transfusions, 1914, and the Overlapping Generations! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the Memorial celebrations in the entire world to catch more phoney partakers, but what would that prove? We know that they are mostly brain-damaged or mentally deranged. The most real things in the world are those that neither apostates or outsiders can see. Did you ever see demons whispering from your Smurf doll? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the dangers that are unseeable in this wicked system outside the protective walls of your local Kingdom Hall.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only blind faith and naïve determination can assure you that the FDS is as real as Jim Jones and Harold Camping. Are they real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Faithful and Discreet Slave? Thank Jehovah it exists and it lives forever within this glorious ivory tower at Watchtower Headquarters. A thousand Overlapping Generations from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand Overlapping Generations from now, our dear Faithful and Discreet Slave will continue to embed the fear of shunning in the hearts of its gullible flock.
Your brothers in faithful service,
Watchtower Bible And Tract Society
