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.