gsark, I do know that the first article listed in the WT Index is 1944 WT volume pages 151-155. Was that about when that happened with Moyle? He is listed I think in the index starting in 1939 up to 1944. I have to track down that volume as well as the 1904 The New Creation book.
*** w67 10/1 596 Following Faithful Shepherds with Life in View ***
MAINTAINING CHRISTIAN STANDARDS OF CONDUCT
18 This strengthening of theocratic structure has brought a closer supervision of the organization as to Scriptural requirements in conduct of those associated. Christian standards have always been recognized by the modern “faithful and discreet slave” and have always been held up before the congregation as requirements in Christian living. Even as early as 1904, the first president of the Watch Tower Society, in his book The New Creation, outlined a Scriptural procedure for dealing with violators, even to the point of withdrawing from them the congregation’s “fellowship and any and all signs or manifestations of brotherhood.”*** But this extreme measure of excommunication or disfellowshiping was not widely practiced among the congregations and was not made a requirement on congregations until 1952. No longer could Christian conduct be viewed simply as a matter affecting only the individual or individuals involved. Paul wrote the Corinthian congregation in connection with a disfellowshiping case in the first-century congregation: “Do you not know that a little leaven ferments the whole lump?” (1 Cor. 5:1-6) No longer could those following the practices of the nations be allowed admittance to the congregation nor could those falling away to such practices be allowed to remain.
***See study VI, “Order and Discipline in the New Creation,” pages 273 to 347.