punkofnice : Watchtower, September 15, 1895: "Beware of 'organization'. It is wholly unnecessary. The Bible rules will be the only rules you will need. Do not seek to bind others' consciences, and do not permit others to bind yours."
This has been quoted regularly but it's not quoted in context. It was in an article entitled Concerning Profitable Meetings which was written because several requests had been received as to how to conduct meetings. The advice is as follows :
(1) You would best first re-read some things already written which bear upon this subject - in our issues of
May 1, '93 page 131 [The Commission of the Apostles];
Sept. '93, page 259 [The Church of the Living God];
Oct. 15, '93, page 307 [Unequally Yoked];
Mar. 1, '94, page 73 [Applying Truth to Oneself];
April 1, '95, page 78 [Views from the Tower (Religious View)];
May 1, '95, page 109 [Priestcraft Opposed to Liberty].
(2) Beware of "organization." It is wholly unnecessary. The Bible rules will be the only rules you will need. Do not seek to bind others' consciences, and do not permit others to bind yours. Believe and obey so far as you can understand God's Word today, and so continue growing in grace and knowledge and love day by day.
It then goes on to discuss what happens at the meetings which includes the study of the Bible "in the light of the DAWN [Millenial Dawn, also known as Studies in the Scriptures]" which is a divinely provided help for the cutting of the food into eatable portions.
Two months later (November 15, 1895) there was an article Decently and in Order (1 Corinthians 14:40) where it concludes:
... the true church, 'whose names are written in heaven,' is undoubtedly an organization, even in the present time, while it is subject to many vicissitudes - its membership constantly changing, etc., but it is a heavenly organization, not an earthly one.
So, an earthly organization is bad, God's heavenly organization is good. Your quotation to beware of 'organization' was referring to earthly organization, not heavenly. That remains true today.