July 23, 1953:
Tuesday evening 120,509 oonventioners assembled at Yankee Stadium and Trailer City as E. C. Chitty, secretary and treasurer of the International Bible Students Association.
After Ewart Chitty, came T. J. Sullivan, one of the board of directors of the Watch Tower Society and for thirty years a member of the Brooklyn Bethel family. He dealt with service questions, all of which involved the matter of keeping the organization clean by cutting off, "disfellowshiping," those who have shown themselves unfit to be recognized as members of the New World society.
When gossiping is persisted in and causes friction and division it serves as basis for disfellowshiping. It is Scriptural
to notify the Society, the circuit
servant and congregations that
may need such information of a person's being disfellowshiped, as disfellowshiping from one congregation is a cutting off
from all congregations. Introducing this theme Ewart Chitty observed that this
was not a matter of self-tentered character development.