Schoolteacher brutally canes Neville over a Bible quotation

As a boy he was savagely caned by a schoolteacher for quoting a Bible verse as "take up your bed" instead of "take up your couch" and for not producing the family Bible, which his brother Cecil had; the teacher shot himself six months later.
Date (happened)
c. 1927
unresolved
  1. c. 1927 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Esau and Jacob ¶7"Six months later he shot himself.", told in Esau and Jacob (nid 1066)
  2. before 13 November 1959 bound
    Source Esau and Jacob ¶7Neville recounts the completed beating and the teacher's death six months afterward in the lecture delivered 1959-11-13.
    Reasoning Passage 529323 places both the beating and the teacher's suicide in Neville's past. The containing lecture node 1066 has an authoritative certain delivery date of 1959-11-13, so the beating certainly occurred before that day. The passage provides no year from which an exact or circa calendar date can be decided.
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Cecil Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 13 November 1959 stated
    Source Esau and JacobEsau and Jacob (nid 1066), telling 1066-3, told 1959-11-13
Sources

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  • Esau and Jacob ¶7 (I have had only one real beating in my life and that was by a man who blew out his brains six months later. He asked me about a Bible passage. “What does it say?” I said, “Take up your bed and walk.” He said, “Bring me the book!” I said, “My brother has …)