Personally I think we need to take into a count is that very likely this utterance was never made by a miracle working self proclaimed son of god, and that it is an entire made up fiction, so that the spectrum of for speculating what someone original meaning can be quite broad and have attached to those words by literalist and fundimentalist which include their world views.
Seeing that CT Russel and associates were in the religious printing business would weigh heavy on their interpretation and meaning of those words to steer them towards finacial success and sainthood. Russel had control and he became the Faithful Servant of the lord according to his steering this illustration in that direction making printed material into spiritual "food at the proper time".