He quotes a saying of his father's about money.

Just before leaving Los Angeles for this lecture trip, someone asked Neville why misfortune should befall their churchgoing parents, who did not deserve it.

Neville says he has the friend's written account with him at his hotel, given to him freely so he could share it.

The same friend told Neville that when his wife reported a fourteen-month-old girl had been diagnosed with cancer by five doctors, he refused to hear it and revised her words into a reversal of the verdict; a sixth doctor then found no malignancy and the doctors confessed they had been wrong.

Neville observes that his friend Dick, interested in the Law rather than the Promise, stays away on nights when Neville stresses the Promise.

Neville tells how his mother in Barbados appropriated a trip to New York - having dresses made and living in the trip imaginatively - until his father Joseph announced he had booked her passage, and she protested at the expense while knowing exactly what she had done.

He says he read in the paper of a man preaching eschatology as Christ's bodily return, and gathering fifty thousand people to confess to Christ.

He recounts hearing the Maharishi on television answer a charge of self-publicity by saying that was why Jesus took so long to get started.

A woman friend of Neville's, a mother of two expecting her third child, wrote to him describing a vision in which she saw the Bible opened and heard a voice say "You are Paul" and then "It's all about Paul," and asked him who Paul is; he answers her through the lecture that her revelation is true and she has been called and elected.

He contrasts his own parents: his mother, who never smoked or drank, died a painful death at 62, while his father drank heavily, ignored all health advice, and died at 85 of sheer exhaustion — which is why he ignores diet rules.

Neville mentions an earlier witness: one lady saw him clothed in power and wisdom, and now another has seen him clothed in the garment of love.

Someone, he thinks Huxley, once said to him that there are three kinds of writing — journalism, literature and scripture — and admitted he himself could not write scripture.

A woman named Sharon, present at the lecture, tells Neville a vision in which she woke to heavenly music from a ball of light containing a child's skeleton playing the piano, her father confirmed he heard and saw it, and on reaching Neville's home she found his living room to be a garden where he stood clothed in a body of love, watering flowers for his sleeping wife Bill.

Neville's brother Victor, who wanted wealth single-mindedly and believed money was power, befriended a man who left him a very large sum of money at the end of his life.

A friend Neville knows well told him he began a small restaurant in Oahu with $180 and many debtors a few years ago; having heard and applied Neville's teaching, his business is now valued at over $100,000 and he is considering expanding to San Francisco.