This weeks Service Meeting has a part dealing with preaching through intercoms. Under the heading "How To Do It" the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses advises publishers...
"Use good judgment. In large buildings, there may be may intercoms. Perhaps you could choose just three or so to ring, take note of where you left off, and then leave. Residents of the building may become alarmed if we linger in the foyer in order to ring every intercom."
Should work a charm in Broadmoor.
Of course the following will never happen, but not because no one is praying. Imagine if the above timely scripturally based advice (in bold) was not dispensed this very week...
Sutcliffe walks into the foyer of a large building carrying a Watchtower magazine in one hand and a Revised New World Bible in the other. He rings the first intercom. No reply. Linger. Sutcliffe rings the second intercom. No reply. Linger. Sutcliffe rings the third intercom. No reply. Sutcliffe rings the fourth intercom. No reply. More lingering in the foyer. Sutcliffe rings the fifth intercom. A woman answers.
"Good morning ma'am. My name is Peter Sutcliffe. I'm hear to talk to you about the judgment against the harlot that sits upon many waters. If you give me a moment of your time I can come up to your apartment and demonstrate to you the death-dealing judgment reserved for this harlot right here with my silver sword."
Meanwhile an observant resident notices a man lingering in the foyer and calls the police.
"Yorkshire Police. How can we help?"
"Yes, police. There suspicious man lingering in our foyer who calls himself Peter Sutcliffe. He is wanting to share some judgment reserved for harlots and is carrying what appears to be a silver sword."
Police arrive. All of them. Sutcliffe is arrested and locked up with all the other mentally diseased ones. The woman is apartment number 5 never gets to experience how skillfully Sutcliffe can wield his silver sword and reach the heart.
But with this new 'spiritual food at the proper time' Sutcliffe would never have rung the fifth intercom on that day. He would never have been spotted lingering in the foyer of a Yorkshire apartment building carrying his silver sword. He would never have been arrested. Why? The current advice of the "faithful and discreet slave" is to not let people see you lingering in the foyer of apartment buildings carrying your silver sword.
Evidently then, on the current advice of the chosen ones, two days later Sutcliffe would be back in the apartment foyer pushing the intercom for apartment number 5, his first intercom of the day, and introducing a young woman to the power of the silver sword.
