Only two years later, in 1927, the organization would cease printing of Studies in the Scriptures. By 1931, the editorial committee had been dissolved entirely and the 1933 Year Book would proclaim this development as evidence that “the Lord himself is running his organization.” With the Judge having finally purged the last remnants of Russell’s influence, he set about slowly transforming Watchtower from a loose-knit “brethren” into a centralized “Theocracy.”
