Neville recalls Abdullah's meetings, where the seventeenth chapter of John had to be committed to memory by everyone, recited standing together at the close with no reading of books, and Abdullah always closing with a benediction on unity.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1937
unresolved
before 1966
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [534633] belong to telling lecture nids [1246]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1966 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1966 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1 November 1966
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1966 to before 1966-11-01.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1246 (certain delivery 1966-11-01); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1966`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1966-11-01 on nid 1246 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between 1929 and 1937
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 013)
Reasoning
Passage 534633 is about Abdullah's own meetings. Neville met Abdullah 1929 or 1931 (events 963, 962), studied with him for about five years (19859), lived near him on West 72nd/75th Street 1933-36 (766) and Abdullah was active in New York in 1935 (940, 793). The end date is not fixed.
Sources
Source
- The Congregation of God ¶21 (It’s the one chapter that old Ab, my friend Abdullah, insisted that we commit to memory. Everyone had to know it. No reading of books. You rise and together we would say…“the 17th chapter of John,” he would say.)