29 December 1901
(probable)
A Goldsboro, North Carolina newspaper report ('Negro of Hebbew [Hebrew] Faith', special to the Messenger, dateline 'Goldsboro, N.C., December 29') describes a black man claiming the Jewish faith and A
1902
(possible)
The 1920 census naturalization column states Modeste Abdallah Guillaume was naturalized in 1902, though the naturalization record itself has not been located.
Person: Abdullah
c. 1903
(probable)
11 June 1903
(probable)
December 1903
In December 1903 a U.S. copyright record shows M. A. Guillaume (later Abdullah) registering the song 'Beneath many a smiling face there lies an aching heart' with G. H. Briggs.
17 December 1903
(probable)
19 February 1905
Neville Lancelot Goddard was born to Joseph Nathaniel Goddard and Wilhelmina Goddard, the fourth of ten children.
between 1905 and 1905
(possible)
Before becoming Neville's teacher, Abdullah (as Modeste Abdallah Guillaume) is traced between the Williams & Walker Glee Club and the Bel Canto Studio, 1905-1910.
1905
(probable)
c. July 1905
(probable)
George Walker organized the Williams & Walker Glee Club in summer 1905, with Modeste Guillaume (later Abdullah) as its premier baritone among fifteen members.
before 1905
Neville describes what he calls his pre-birth 'sifting' -- a spiritual separation, like wheat from chaff, that he says happened before he was born on Barbados in 1905.
1905
(probable)
Woman recalls her third-grade teacher's autograph from age ten
Description
A 72-year-old woman wrote to Neville describing a dream in which she became a ten-year-old girl again, asking her father to write a verse she had memorized into her autograph book and watching him record it. Although she could not recall the poem before the dream, she remembered it word for word upon waking, and a few days later, while visiting her daughter, recounted the experience.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1905
(possible)
Told
13 March 1967
between 1905 and 1922
(possible)
Neville recalls that as a boy in Barbados, he and three other boys would ride a large male donkey -- kept on the farm to sire mules -- every Sunday down to his grandmother's house, where she gave each
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
6 December 1959
Neville states that he himself is the father of David, though David lived a thousand years before Christ and Neville was born in the twentieth century.
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
c. 1905
(probable)
As a very curious child Neville would look into a mirror and see himself reduced to a tiny miniature in the pupil of his own eye.
c. 1905
(probable)
Neville refers to being taught as a child that Jesus sacrificed himself for us 2,000 years ago, a teaching he now calls belief in a lie.
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville describes his own appearance - brown or olive skinned, never blond, though his hair was white as a child - and contrasts it with the ghastly pale face he saw when he came out of himself.
between 1905 and 1911
Neville, born in 1905 with no social, intellectual or financial background, and a friend of his present at the lecture, born in 1911, both experienced being God the Father when David stood before them
between 1905 and 1920
(probable)
As a child in Barbados he ran school obstacle races - crawling under a tightly pegged tarpaulin, through barrels, over an obstruction, up a greased pole and finally chasing a greased pig - which he ta
between 1905 and 1922
He retells the childhood obstacle race: men tied the tarpaulin down so tightly that the little children crawled under it like cats and came out exhausted, then went through barrels, over a hurdle, up
between 1905 and 1922
Neville recounts that his revelation came upon him suddenly and unexpectedly, that as a boy he had never heard of it and was never taught it by any man, and that when it came Jesus Christ unveiled him
between 1905 and 4 February 1964
He recounts having met many people in this life who each claimed to have been Napoleon, though there was only one Napoleon in history.
1905
Neville says he was placed on the island of Barbados in 1905 with many brothers, in a limited environment with no social, intellectual or financial background, and grew restless there.
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados Neville paid a boy who worked for his father six cents — the price of a pit seat — to laugh at the wrong moments during the twice-weekly picture shows; the boy, Mashama, nicknamed
between 1905 and 1964
Neville says that in his fifty-nine years he has given the world the art of revision, which he discovered though it was not new.
1905
He mentions his own birth year while denying it in the eternal sense.
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville says his search and thirst for God, which nothing in the world could satisfy, began when he was a child and preceded the vision.
1905
Neville, taught Christianity as a child and born in 1905, describes his astonishment at discovering that the supernatural birth took place in him and that he is the father of David, who lived 1,000 B.
before 1905
Neville recounts the Barbados cholera epidemic that happened long before his birth — the burial ground that stood untouched for years and was eventually plowed up for a lumber factory, and how those w
1905
Neville tells how he got his name: when he was three weeks old his mother heard a voice say 'Call him Neville', and fifteen minutes later his uncle told her the same thing, though the name had never b
between 1905 and 1920
(probable)
Neville retells the boyhood obstacle race: crawling on his belly under a low canvas while other boys pulled it tighter, squeezing through a narrow barrel, climbing a greased pole for a flag, then runn
between 1905 and 1920
(probable)
As boys Neville and his brothers rowed far out to play around the sunken ships in the harbour, lost the boat and had to swim back, and dived from the masts of a foundered four-masted ship among fish a
1905
He gives his own birth year alongside Blake's, saying Blake departed a hundred years before he appeared, yet the two are woven together in the tapestry of thought.
between 1905 and 1921
(probable)
Neville remembers his mother's beautiful garden in his childhood: she was passionately fond of it, always carried a parasol because she was so fair the sun blistered her, and directed her gardeners an
between 1905 and 1922
Neville says anyone who knew him in his early days in Barbados would know his father Joseph, his mother Wilhelmina and his brothers, and that his birth certificate is on record there.
between 1905 and 1922
As a boy in the West Indies Neville kept a pile of rocks and threw rock after rock at the bats that came out at dusk, and never once hit one because of their sonar.
between 1905 and 1922
Neville tells of his lifelong childhood hunger to know the reality of God, and that the only physical beating he ever took from a schoolmaster was over the Bible — a sadist who tore his legs apart unt
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
Neville recalls that as a boy his family had little money but a little position, so they owned a church pew where his mother brought her brood every Sunday morning.
between 1905 and 1922
(probable)
He recalls that as a boy his family had little money but some position, so they had their own church pew marked "Mrs.
c. 1905
(probable)
As a child he was raised in a Christian environment and taught that Jesus was a man outside of himself, so the scriptural passages about being united with Christ meant nothing to him.
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Retelling his boyhood: while others heard only a disturbance when the ship blasted for its captain, he lay dreaming himself aboard, knowing his father and the captain were on the veranda below getting
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville recalls hearing the Gospel story as a child, taught by his mother and repeated at school, accepting it as his faith until it actually happened in him and he had to reinterpret Scripture from h
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
Neville describes being raised in the Christian faith with Bible reading and Bible study as part of his schooling and Sunday School, and says neither his teachers, his mother, his father nor anyone he
between 19 February 1905 and 1 December 1969
Neville states he has lived by the law of assumption all his life and knows from that practice that every desire will be fulfilled.
between 1905 and 1912
(probable)
Neville describes his Christian childhood: born and raised in a Christian home, baptized in the Episcopal Church (the Church of England where he was born), taught the story of Christ by his mother, gi