Footnote

a The Watchtower, 1938, page 182. In this manner almost all of the congregations affiliated with the Watch Tower Society surrendered their democratic (or presbyter) style of church control exercised by them for the previous sixty years in exchange for a voluntary requested theocratic system of congregational operation. (See Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 6, pp. 273-347.) From this time forward the Society of the anointed ones came into its rightful Scriptural relationship with congregations of Jehovah’s witnesses.