In February 1941 his first book Your Faith is Your Fortune came out during a twelve-inch New York snowstorm that cut his usual audience to about 150; that night he slept in the assumption that he was in his mother's home in Barbados, and the following August, after a cable saying his mother was terminally ill, he and his wife sailed on the old Argentina and he slept in that very room - his mother died two weeks after they returned home three weeks later.
Date (happened)
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February 1941
stated
Reasoning
The passage directly dates the book appearance to February 1941 and says Neville performed the Barbados assumption that night. The day is not stated.
c. February 1941
stated · probable
February 1941
stated · probable
Reasoning
Neville directly states both the year and month; a specific stated date, but a decades-later, uncorroborated self-report, so probable rather than certain. The same passage also dates his family's cable and the resulting Barbados journey to 'that year' (1941), folded into the description rather than a second date claim since only the year is given for that part.
1941
stated · probable
Source
derived from the event's own title: "Neville and his wife sail to Barbados in 1941"
Reasoning
The event held NO date claim of any kind; its own title states 1941 (year precision, parsed as "year only"). ⚠ A title in this corpus is a DERIVED artefact — an earlier pass wrote it from the passage text — so this claim is title-derived and is marked as such rather than cited as a source document; the underlying text remains the real evidence and would supersede it. Confidence `probable`, never `certain`, for that reason. Precision is never inflated beyond the title's own wording. CALIBRATION (run v1.1/l1.4/titledate, against the 489 events that already hold an independent preferred date): day 96.1%, month 94.1% agreement. Titles naming a REFERENCE event rather than the event itself ("before", "after", "during the week of", "per ... lecture") are refused outright and never reach this write — reading an anchor as the date is the same laundering phase3b committed when it wrote telling dates onto events.
August 1941
stated · probable
Why
Ship named 'the Royal McCormick, The Argentina' per processing notes, likely conflating the Moore-McCormack line with the ship's own name, reported as transcribed.
Reasoning
Neville's own account of sailing to Barbados: a ship left 'in l941' (transcribed with a lowercase L) 'the end of August', prompted by a cable that his mother was dying — consistent with the corpus's own anchor for her death in 1941 (hist_event 5960). This gives month precision beyond the existing year-only, title-derived claim (d0), which it supersedes in precision without contradicting.
c. August 1941
stated
Reasoning
The passage explicitly gives 1941 and the end of August for departure. No day is stated, so the month is retained with circa qualification rather than inventing a calendar date.
between 1939 and 1945
stated · probable
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before 1942
bound · probable
Source
corpus anchor: Neville's mother dies, 1941 (hist_event 5960, certain)
Why
Existing d0 (between 1939-1945) is not altered; this is an additional bound narrowing the same event's plausible window using a certain corpus anchor.
Reasoning
The event is the cable reporting his mother was dying and the voyage taken to reach her before she died; since her death is established elsewhere in the corpus at 1941, this event cannot have happened later than 1941, so it must fall before 1942. This tightens the existing d0 claim's 1945 upper edge, which the anchor does not support. || v1.1 type repair: written as `estimated` by run v1.1/l4/c0y, retyped `bound` — a `before` claim is an outer limit, which the lane brief and 97% of the corpus type as `bound`.
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c. 1943
stated · probable
between 1939 and 1948
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The passage places the journey in deep winter amid wartime sinkings. The lecture's authoritative adjudication treats that as only a post-1939 lower bound, and the event was completed before the year-level 1948 lecture. Nothing in the packet selects 1943 specifically.
Told / reported
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3 February 1969
estimated · probable
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1100 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1100 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1969-2-3 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1963-4-23 refuted; 1969-2-3 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1963-04-23 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
22 January 1965
estimated
Reasoning
Single, uncontested certain claim inherited unchanged.
20 February 1964
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The passage recounting the 1941 voyage is delivered within lecture nid 1768, whose delivery date is 1964-02-20 at probable confidence (chrome dateline '2/20/64'); the telling cannot be more certain than that delivery claim.
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25 October 1971
estimated · probable
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1752 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1752 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1971-10-25 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1971-10-25 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1957-00-00 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 1: 1957-00-00 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/ceiling/c2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
c. 1948
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The account is carried by node 1818, whose authoritative L7 adjudication retains the source site's year-level 1948 delivery claim. A node-sourced told inference is typed estimated.
23 April 1963
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1100, 1963-4-23) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1969-2-3. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
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1957
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1752, 1957--) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1971-10-25. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- Works of Faith, Not Miracles ¶29 (Well, that night when I went to my home I assumed I was in Barbados, and I actually slept in the belief I am in Barbados. I could hear the sounds that you hear only were you in Barbados; the odors that come only were you in Barbados, the tropical odors. …)
- Wonder Working Power ¶16 (I remember one cold winter night in New York City. I was lecturing in a church off Times Square where the usual crowd was in excess of a thousand, but because of the cold and snow there were only about 200 in attendance.)
- Evil: Turning to Other Gods ¶20 (It was a cold, cold night in New York City, twelve inches of snow on the ground, and I slept in Barbados because I wanted something warm and comforting around me. I surrounded myself with my mother’s home.)
- The Potter's House ¶28 (I went to sleep in my bedroom, and I assumed that I was in Barbados, two thousand miles away across the water to the little island called Barbados. I dropped off to sleep feeling I was in my mother’s home.)
- Lesson 2: Assumptions Harden Into Fact ¶68 (I treated it lightly once because I just wanted to get away, based only upon the temperature of the day. It was in the deep of winter in New York, and I so desired to be in the warm climate of the Indies, that I slept that night as though I slept under p…)