Article about, Los Angeles Times, 1951

LECTURER PRESENTS

BIBLE IN NEW LIGHT

Former Dancer Devotes Life to Religion

to Teach People a Better Way of Living

BY GEORGE L. BERONIUS, Times Religion Editor

The man in the brightly checked shirt isn’t sure that the

men of the Bible ever lived or that its events ever occurred.

Yet the Bible is the basis of his own religious teachings.

‘The man is Nevill

actually

Neville Goddard—of New York

“I firmly believe that an as-

uimption will harden into fact,

City, where his public lectures

in Town Hall have inspired thou-

if persisted upon,” he adds.

sands toward new living and

Neville was born on the island

spiritual guidance.

lof Barbados in the British West

|

Neville is the name by which Indies, He didn’t become an

he is known and his teachings |American citizen until World

can best be summed up by the|War II, during which for a time

title of his most popular book—jhe served in the Army.

“Your Faith Is Your Fortune.”

He has eight brothers and

lone sister, His only son, at 27, is

A Way of Life

As he puts it, “I teach a wa

y |@ college student in New York,

of life, a way of living. People

His wife and 9-year-old daughter

come to me without confidence |are with him here.

and leave with increased produc-

‘Teaches From Bible

tivity,

whether it be spiritual,

Neville teaches from the Bible

financial or profe:

ional.”

and has been termed by some as

Or in other word

“Experience |

in your imagination wh:

you

‘the outstanding metaphysical)

would w:

nt to be in real

Do

interpreter of the Bible in the

world

today.”

But he woula

this and you will achieve your

1

goal, whatever it ma

be,

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