Organization

    When one joins a sect... the sect undertakes to
    decide for him what is truth and what is error;
    and he, to be a true, staunch, faithful member,
    must accept the decisions of his sect… ignoring
    his own individual thought, and avoiding
    personal investigation, lest he grow in
    knowledge, and be lost as a member of such sect.

    Charles Taze Russell, First President of Watchtower Society
    Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 3, 185


    Beware of ‘organization.’
    It is wholly unnecessary.

    The Bible rules will be
    the only rules you will
    need.

    The Watchtower (9/15/1895)