What's in a name?

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.”—William Shakespeare

The meaning of the phrase is that what matters is what something is, not what it is called.

Tract 8 has a copyright of 1937. What is the subject?

Mount Sion
at the Eleventh Hour

When was the Constitution and by-laws written? (See: 13Tr44:45.4)

In SC Vol. 3 No. 2, February 1937, Read the following after paragraph 7. What is the title of the directory?

In SC Vol. 3 No. 3-4, Marh-April, 1937 someone wrote to the association:

     "I am very thankful for the SRod message that has helped me to draw closer to Jesus.  I am studying the message, and am happy to be a Shepherd's Rod Seventh-day Adventist.  I want to be at Mt. Carmel, but I love to read the letters that come from this center even if I do not have the privilege of being there just now."—3SC3,4:12.2  [1937]

(Signed)   Buster McTyre, age 8

In SC 4, Nos. 1, 2, 3 Jan-Feb-Mar 1938 it says:

   Furthermore, Mt. Carmel is paying salaries not only to all her regular workers, but also to all her students, thus enabling them to defray a part of their expenses, which privilege of self-help not only reduces their parents' burdens, but also, at the same time, teaches the students to bear responsibilities, and to become self-supporting, which both the parents and the schools have failed to do, with the deplorable result that after the youth have passed school age, they are unable not only to make a living for a home, but also to make even their own living, and are consequently a burden to themselves and a curse to the world; whereas, they should be a blessing to all. {4SC1-3:4.1} 

   This 1938 remuneration system applies to all the children from four years up, as set forth in the following supplementary by-laws to the constitutional rules and regulations of the General Association of The Shepherd's Rod Seventh-day Adventists:—4SC1-3:4.1, 2  [1938]

In SC Vol. 6, Nos. 7-12, July-December 1940 it says

SPECIAL NOTICE

For All SRod Members Of Military Conscription Age

THE SHEPHERD'S ROD SEVENTH-DAY

ADVENTISTS' DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES CONCERNING CONSCRIPTION

     (These principles underlie our conscientious objections to signing either Statement A or Statement B, unqualified, under "Claim for Exemption" in "Special Form for Conscientious Objectors.")—6SC7-12:11.1

In SC 7, Nos. 1-6, January-June, 1941 it says

     The only statement made to the government by the believers of The Shepherd's Rod, is found on page 11 of the January-June issue of the Symbolic Code, together with the government's reply, which, it will be noticed, is addressed to THE SHEPHERD'S ROD SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Headquarters, Waco, Texas, not to the Seventh-day Adventist Headquarters, Washington, D.C.  Our statement to the government was made in the name of The Shepherd's Rod Seventh-day Adventists, which certainly cannot be misrepresenting the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, if it is misrepresenting anything.—7SC1-6:14.2  [1941]  (Read the whole question)

     Having now, though, at the closing of its twelfth year, progressed to the publication of the "Leviticus," the Association receives from this governmental organ, the name, Davidian Seventh-day Adventists.  No longer, therefore, does it borrow its name from its publications.  The inception of this governmental set-up, along with the name, suggests that the long-predicted Davidian Kingdom is about to be ushered in.—8SC1-12:24.2  [1942]

What changed, and why? I believe it was the war.

The United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The attack prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to declare war on Japan the following day. A few days later, Nazi Germany declared war on the United States, and America entered World War II against the Axis powers.

These are all the references on the point.

NOTE: In 13Tr (2nd Ed.)

1937 Constitution and By-Laws of The Shepherd's  Rod Seventh-day Adventists written.

Tract No.  8, First Edition, 6,000 copies, published November 15.—13Tr44:45.4

Then compared that to

1943 Organization named "The General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists."

The Leviticus (Constitution and By-laws) of the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists 5,075 copies, published February 12.

First Children's Davidian Sabbath School Lessons mailed (Kindergarten & Primary and Intermediate Divisions).

Fundamental Beliefs and Directory of the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, 5,100 copies, published March 4.

Tract No. 14, First Edition, 35,095 copies published April 30.

First Fellowship Certificates issued, along with Ministerial Credentials, June.

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Bequeathment Certificates first provided,  September. 1944

The Answerer, Book One,  29,760 copies published in May.

The Answerer, Book Two, 29,564 copies published in June.

The Answerer, Book Three, 29,815 copies,  published in July.

The Answerer, Book Four, 30,000 copies, published in August.

The Answerer, Book Five, 30,000 copies, published in December.—13Tr44:46.3 (2nd Ed.)  [1944]

     Provisional in set-up as well as in name, the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association exists solely to accomplish a divinely appointed work within the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, wherein it therefore strictly confines its activities.  As its work therewithin draws to a close, and the "servants of our God" (Rev. 7:3) are sealed, its name will be changed (Isa. 56:5; 62:2; 65:15) and its purpose and its work will become all-embracing to the gospel (Matt. 17:11; Acts 3:21, Isa. 61:4-7).  Then its Constitution and By-Laws as herein codified will become fully operative.—LEV:2.1

     The name, Davidian, deriving from the name of the king of Ancient Israel, accrues to this Association by reason of its following aspects: First, it is dedicated to the work of announcing and bringing forth the restoration (as predicted in Hosea 1:11; 3:5) of David's kingdom in antitype, upon the throne of which Christ, "the son of David," is to sit.  Second, it purports itself to be the first of the first fruits of the living, the vanguard from among the present-day descendants of those Jews who composed the Early Christian Church.  With the emergence of this vanguard and its army, the first fruits, from which are elected the 12,000 out of each of the twelve tribes of Jacob, "the 144,000" (Rev. 14:1; 7:2-8) who stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb (Rev. 14:1; 7:2-8), the reign of antitypical David begins.—LEV:3.2

     The Davidians are the upshoot from decadent Seventh-day Adventism prophetically envisioned in Ezekiel, chapter nine.  Its members are in the main those who have been cast out and deprived of the fellowship of their Seventh-day Adventist churches.  Thus being separated from their church and denied its name because of their having given heed to the voice of the Rod, the voice of the Good Shepherd, they are called by the name imbedded in the work of the Rod, "Davidian Seventh-day Adventists," until the time when they shall be "called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name." Isa. 62:2.—LEV:12.1  [1943]

   As we could not turn our backs upon the God-sent "meat in due season" we were, of course

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compelled to add Davidian to the name Seventh-day Adventists, lest we be accused of misrepresentation. We have never, however, separated ourselves from the denomination.  As a people we still attend the denominational churches whenever we are not barred from entering.—2TG10:17.3  [1947]

   Plainly, then, her name must express the truths she advocates: that is, the keeping of

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the commandments, the second advent of Christ, and also the restoration of the Davidian Kingdom according to prophecy.  Hence the logical name that would represent her work from this time down to the time the Kingdom is set up, is to be Davidian Seventh-day Adventists,—a name that testifies of the Kingdom message, of keeping the commandments of which the seventh-day Sabbath is a part, and of the second advent of Christ.—2TG34:24.4  [1948]

   Now you can more fully appreciate the name

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Davidian Seventh-day Adventists.  And so if you were nothing yesterday, and a Divinely enlightened human being today, you would at last be a Davidian Seventh-day Adventist.—2TG34:27.2  [1948]

   We likewise have not pulled away from the Denomination, but have been cast out of our respective churches and forced to go by another name, Davidian Seventh-day Adventists,—and all this for no other reason than for

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embracing the additional Heaven-born Truth which gives power and force to the Advent message (Early Writings, pg. 277), and which makes us better Seventh-day Adventists than we have been or could otherwise be.—2TG43:3.3  [1949]