Neville says he can recall many things vividly at the age of three and four, yet he cannot recall his mother except as a mature lady -- even though she must have been only twenty-one or twenty-two when she bore him (he was the fourth of a large family) and no more than about thirty when he himself was seven. Told in the lecture 'Christmas: The Gospel Proclaims an Event' (nid 1869, delivered 1969-12-08).