Neville's mother came to America when his son was two and a half, was shocked to learn the boy had not been baptised, and insisted; Neville took the boy to an Episcopal minister who wet his head, which he says did nothing spiritually.
Date (happened)
1926
conclusion
Reasoning
Passage 548251 (node 1900) directly states the year of the episode ('In 1926 when my mother came to see me...'), settling the date to the year level; other tellings describe the same episode without contradicting it.
1926
stated · preferred
Reasoning
A parallel witness of the same mother-and-baptism episode explicitly states 1926 and identifies the son as two years old. This supersedes weaker inferred 1938 and before-1963 bounds without deleting them.
before 1963
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [529834] belong to telling lecture nids [1089]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1963 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1963 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 15 March 1963
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1963 to before 1963-03-15.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1089 (certain delivery 1963-03-15); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1963`, 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 1963-03-15 on nid 1089 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between March 1905 and 1927
stated · probable
c. 1938
stated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 005): Conflicts with the direct year-statement in the parallel telling of the same mother's-visit/baptism episode (passage 548251, node 1900): 'In 1926 when my mother came to see me in New York City, my son was then two years old.'
Told / reported
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17 November 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Node 2036 contains the currently cited retelling and carries the corpus's probable exact delivery date 1969-11-17; under the b8 rule the node-derived telling is stated and inherits that confidence. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor402/18500-18999-b8, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 2036, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
25 October 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 551314 directly recounts Neville taking his two-year-old son to church for baptism in lecture node 2002. The node's adjudicated delivery is 1969-10-25 at probable from an exact-title catalog witness, without an independent chrome dateline. Because the telling date is inherited from that carrier, this told claim is estimated/exact and capped at probable.
Sources
Source
- Jeremiah's Discovery ¶9 (My mother came to this country when my little boy was two and a half years old, and one of the first questions she asked was if he had been baptised. When she learned he had not, she was shocked, and said: “Suppose he dies. Then he can’t go to heaven.”)
- Christ Unveiled ¶73 (She said to me, “Is he christened?” I said no. I said, “No, I see no reason for it.” She said, “Neville, if he dies tonight, he can’t go to heaven.” So to satisfy Mother and to satisfy her feelings, I took him the next week down to the church and had him…)
- Real Baptism ¶6 (In 1926 when my mother came to see me in New York City, my son was then two years old and had not been christened.)
- Paul's Prayer Interpreted ¶20 (I was baptized when I was simply three or four weeks old. My mother insisted that my son, when he was two, should be baptized or he wouldn’t go to heaven, and she took that literally on this level. I said, “Mother, if it pleases you, I’ll take him to chu…)