«Harvest Gatherings and Siftings», Watch Tower (Reprints) (AGS Consulting), 15 de julio de 1906: 3822, archivado desde el original el 29 de mayo de 2018, consultado el 23 de agosto de 2009..
"This spuing out, or casting off, of the nominal church as an organization in 1878, we then understood, and still proclaim, to be the date of the commencement of Babylon's fall..."—"The Consummation of Our Hope"Archivado el 4 de octubre de 2006 en Wayback Machine. in Zion's Watch Tower, April 1883. Reprints pp. 474–5.
Online copies of the Watch Tower from 1879–1916 can be viewed by issue at Most holy faith or by article at AGS Consulting . These are taken from the 7 volume Watch Tower Reprints published by the Watch Tower Society in 1920 which reprinted all the issues from 1879–1919.
Herbert H. Stroup (1945). The Jehovah's Witnesses. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 14, 15. «Following his election the existence of the movement was threatened as never before. Many of those who remembered wistfully the halcyon days of Mr Russell's leadership found that the new incumbent did not fulfill their expectations of a saintly leader. Various elements split off from the parent body, and such fission continued throughout Rutherford's leadership.»
Reed, David (1993). «Whither the Watchtower?». Christian Research Journal: 27. Archivado desde el original el 9 de septiembre de 2011. «By gradually replacing locally elected elders with his own appointees, he managed to transform a loose collection of semi-autonomous, democratically run congregations into a tight-knit organizational machine controlled from his office. Some local congregations broke away, forming such groups as the Chicago Bible Students, the Dawn Bible Students, and the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement, all of which continue to this day.»
«Emphatic Diaglott», Watch Tower (reprint) (Jehovah’s Witness truth), archivado desde el original el 24 de julio de 2009..
mostholyfaith.com
[1]Archivado el 2 de octubre de 2011 en Wayback Machine. The Watch Tower, July 1881, "Future Work and Glory"
Watch Tower (reprint), Most holy faith, February 1984, archivado desde el original el 15 de marzo de 2014, consultado el 23 de agosto de 2009. and cited by Franz, 2007, chapter 4.
Online copies of the Watch Tower from 1879–1916 can be viewed by issue at Most holy faith or by article at AGS Consulting . These are taken from the 7 volume Watch Tower Reprints published by the Watch Tower Society in 1920 which reprinted all the issues from 1879–1919.
«Our Faith», The Midnight Cry and Herald of the Morning, March 1874, archivado desde el original el 14 de julio de 2009..
«Harvest Gatherings and Siftings», Watch Tower (Reprints) (AGS Consulting), 15 de julio de 1906: 3822, archivado desde el original el 29 de mayo de 2018, consultado el 23 de agosto de 2009..
«Emphatic Diaglott», Watch Tower (reprint) (Jehovah’s Witness truth), archivado desde el original el 24 de julio de 2009..
"This spuing out, or casting off, of the nominal church as an organization in 1878, we then understood, and still proclaim, to be the date of the commencement of Babylon's fall..."—"The Consummation of Our Hope"Archivado el 4 de octubre de 2006 en Wayback Machine. in Zion's Watch Tower, April 1883. Reprints pp. 474–5.
[1]Archivado el 2 de octubre de 2011 en Wayback Machine. The Watch Tower, July 1881, "Future Work and Glory"
Watch Tower (reprint), Most holy faith, February 1984, archivado desde el original el 15 de marzo de 2014, consultado el 23 de agosto de 2009. and cited by Franz, 2007, chapter 4.
Reed, David (1993). «Whither the Watchtower?». Christian Research Journal: 27. Archivado desde el original el 9 de septiembre de 2011. «By gradually replacing locally elected elders with his own appointees, he managed to transform a loose collection of semi-autonomous, democratically run congregations into a tight-knit organizational machine controlled from his office. Some local congregations broke away, forming such groups as the Chicago Bible Students, the Dawn Bible Students, and the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement, all of which continue to this day.»