Neville stays in London with Matthew Bentley in 1925

At twenty years old, in London in 1925, Neville stayed with his friend Matthew Bentley, whose father -- a retired mining engineer then fifty-eight, the same age Neville was when giving this lecture -- lived quietly with his wife in a small home in Hammersmith and took a philosophical approach to life. When Neville urged Matt to take an interest in his father's outlook, Matt answered that he wanted to 'live first' and make his fortune before anything else. Neville uses the exchange as his example of the parable of the sower's seed choked by thorns -- the cares of the world and the desire for riches smothering what a person has heard.
Date (happened)
1925
unresolved
  1. 1925 stated · preferred
    Source Believe Him In ¶27passage 530018 (lecture nid 1093): 'In 1925... in London -- I was then twenty years old'
    Reasoning The stated year and the stated age of twenty independently corroborate each other against his certain 1905 birth year (hist_event 950): 1925 minus 1905 is exactly twenty.
Persons
Neville Goddard
Series / group
Amerique and Neville's trip to England, 1925–26
Told / reported
  1. 2 April 1963 estimated
    Source Believe Him Indelivery claim on lecture nid 1093 ('Believe Him In'), catalog #142, corroborated by chrome header '4/2/63'
    Reasoning Both the catalog claim and the removed chrome header agree exactly, with no conflicting claim on this lecture.