Rev. Harry Gaze

By his own report, Rev. Harry Gaze began lecturing on Practical Christianity in 1898, and through the years served in many Divine Science pulpits.  These included the Church of the Healing Christ in New York City after W. John Murray and before Emmet Fox, as well as the First Church of Divine Science in Denver in the mid-1940's before Irwin Gregg succeeded him.  Rev. Gaze wrote two well-known biographies of

Emmet Fox and Judge Troward.  He is fondly remembered. http://divinescienceministersassociation.com/memorials/101-rev-harry-gaze.html

Of Genevieve Behrend he wrote:

Mrs.  Behrend,  as  she  was  best  known  in  earlier  work,  when  what  is usually  termed  “well  along  in  years”  became  Mrs.  Smith.  Her  husband  was quite a young man. Mr. Smith, when I was once visiting Vancouver, Canada, told  me  that  he  married  her  not  only  because,  as  her  business  associate  and manager, he learned to love her, in spite of seeming disparity in age, but also because he could protect her financially from  many schemers who sought to separate her from the prosperity life had brought her, some of it as the result of  following  the  success  teachings  of  Thomas  Troward.  Visualizing  success was  one  of  her  special  methods.  The  marriage  proved  a  very  happy  one.  As Mrs.  Behrend-Smith’s  lecture  work  was  gradually  discontinued,  Mr.  Smith helped her to keep up the Troward work with correspondence courses. https://www.nevillegoddardbooks.com/uploads/4/0/9/5/4095367/harry_gaze_-_my_personal_recollections_of_thomas_troward.pdf

He also wrote:

There is a gentleman I should mention here who was closely associated with  the  early  development  of  interest  in  Thomas  Troward’s  teachings  in New  York  City.  This  very  genial  and  handsome  gentleman,  Walter  Goodyear,  was  a  very  unselfish  helper  in  the  cause  of metaphysical  Truth  when there was very little profit in the work, and often hardship, unless one had a separate income from teaching. When an interest had to be gradually created, with  small  financial  returns,  he  conducted  a  metaphysical  library  in  New York and made some efforts in the publishing business without adequate cap-ital.  In  a  small  way,  he  conducted  an  open  platform  for  visiting  speakers  to the metropolitan city. The Goodyear Book Concern were very early publishers of the books of Judge Thomas Troward. I  think  it  is  not  irrelevant  to  speak  of Mr.  Goodyear  in  this  chapter  on Mrs. Behrend, as he was contemporaneous with her in creating interest in the Troward philosophy in New York and its area, and, in fact, preceded her by a few years. Walter  Goodyear  was  a  grandson  of  the  famous  Goodyear  of  fame  in the  realm  of  rubber  tires,  and  many  other  products,  including  the  large  government  balloons.  Our  Mr.  Goodyear  suffered  the  same  early  struggles  and financial lack as did his illustrious grandfather for many years before the perfection  of  his  processes  and  his  recognition  by  those  who  could  help  to finance  his  plans.  I  recall  that  through  dire  necessity,  greatly  against  his  de-sire, he sold a very unique table made entirely of hard rubber by his grandfather, for a very small sum, to provide necessities for the family table. Walter Goodyear and Mrs. Behrend, although both faithful students of Thomas Troward, illustrate by contrast their special spheres of interest in his writings. It was the abstract principles in their pure classic form that intrigued Goodyear,  the  study  of  the  deep  philosophy.  In  the case  of  Mrs.  Behrend, while  undoubtedly  aware  of  these  values,  she  presented  the  Troward  teachings in an intensely practical way, with a considerable emphasis on visualizing  success  and  prosperity,  which  gained  her  students  who  were  greatly  in need of just such an applied metaphysics. https://www.nevillegoddardbooks.com/uploads/4/0/9/5/4095367/harry_gaze_-_my_personal_recollections_of_thomas_troward.pdf

WALTER GOODYEAR; Grandson of Inventor Owned Book Store Here for Years July 31, 1939 https://www.nytimes.com/1939/07/31/archives/walter-goodyear-grandson-of-inventor-owned-book-store-here-for.html

This website talks of  Behrend :

Also, in 1930, Genevieve (1880-1950) marries again, taking as husband an Indiana, real estate agent and WWI Marine veteran at least eighteen years her junior (depending on which birth date we use), named Heber Worth Smith (1898-1952). Was she born in Dresden , Ontario, Canada in 1880?

 

"to the late Judge Thomas Troward of India and England, able and learned metaphysician, and his several volumes; and to Genevieve Behrend, only personal pupil of Judge Troward. Thru the courtesy of Genevieve Behrend, the author has had the good fortune to have had at his command Judge Troward ’s excellent, voluminous, and for the greater part altogether unpublished, notes on the Great Pyramid, on which Troward based his lectures on that subject in London in 1912, just prior to his return to Ruan Manor, Cornwall, to give two years of intensive, personal instruction to Genevieve Behrend." FOREWARD Page 20, MIRACLE OF THE AGES, The Great Pyramid of Gizeh, Worth Smith, 1934