Neville tells of a long weekend spent at the Long Island home of his artist friend Tom, where the Filipino butler-cook, sent by Father Divine and renamed 'Real Gladness' — which he reversed to 'Gladness Real' — greeted him and answered the phone with 'Peace, it's wonderful'; Tom had hired him within twenty-four hours of the renaming.
Date (happened)
before 17 December 1965
unresolved
before 17 December 1965
bound
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 038)
Reasoning
Node 1120's only non-refuted delivery is certain 1965-12-17.
before 1968
bound · refuted
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 038): Computed from node 1120's since-refuted 1968 delivery attachment, the same error corrected on sibling event 15370.
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [530791] belong to telling lecture nids [1120]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Told / reported
17 December 1965
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1965-12-17 (node:1120).
17 December 1965
estimated · probable
Why
Conflicts with the standing 1968 told claim, which rests on an uncorroborated catalog stub; that claim is left untouched per append-only.
Reasoning
The existing 1968 told claim rests on a catalog-backfill stub (catalog #502) directly conflicting with an equally weak stub for 1963 (catalog #170) on the same node, neither internally corroborated. 1965-12-17 is directly attested by a chrome-harvested dateline in the document and independently supported by the lecture's own text ('a week from tomorrow' lands on Christmas Day only if delivered the 17th, not the rival 1965-12-16 catalog claim). This event's own closing passage (530792), announcing the next lecture for 'the 4th of January', is an 18-day gap consistent with a normal holiday pause and does not conflict with a 17 December delivery, so it is added as supporting rather than decisive detail. The told date is derived from the delivery claim at its probable ceiling.
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Sources
Source
- Christmas ¶51 (A friend of mine, a very fine artist, had his home in Long Island, I went off to spend a very long weekend with him. Well, this Philippine served table and he was the cook.)
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
| Date |
Lecture or book |
Telling |
Passage |
| 1965-12-17 [exact/certain/final] |
Christmas |
His first name was Saul and his transformation turned it from Saul to Paul. “Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou me?” He’s called Saul…as Jacob was the one wrestling with the Lord through the night and then he was transformed into Israel…so his name became Israel. You find these strange changing of names in scripture. A change of name is a change of identity. We had in New York City a man that died this past year, he was known as Father Divine, and I think really the man was completely misunderstood. I met him twice. Little fella, wasn’t any bigger than that. Hair, not a hair on his head, just… |
530791 |