Likewise the “faithful and discreet slave” must receive his reward at the time of Christ’s return in an invisible presence in Kingdom power and before Christ acts to displace this present system of things from its domination over the earth. The apostle Peter stated the rule that ‘judgment must begin at the house of God’ and thereafter proceed to the world in general.​—1 Pet. 4:17.

Feeding Christ’s “domestics” spiritually was no easy matter for the “faithful and discreet slave,” particularly for a few years after Jesus came invisibly to inspect and reward them.

Then, in 1919, after a period of inspection, came the time for the Master to reward his faithful “slave.”