In comforting his brothers, Joseph said (Gen. 45:8), "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God." These words have been most comforting and inspiring to me in my business career.
In 1932, at the height of what mortal mind chose to call the business depression, I completed my course in engineering at a large eastern scientific institution. I wrote many letters and made strenuous human efforts to secure employment, without success. Finally, discouraged, I returned to my home in the Middle West. Loving parents did their best to help me, restating the truths I had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School but had neglected to use. In about a month I received a reply to one of the letters, and within two months I was again on my way east to fill a position which I had obtained entirely by letter. This demonstration was the beginning of my renewed interest in Christian Science. In the years that followed, God's guiding hand was always present.
Within a few months, through Science treatment, I secured a much better position, in which I spent eight inspiring years with a man who taught me a great deal. Afterwards, in expressing satisfaction with my work, this employer said he could not understand why he had hired me in October, 1932, when I seemed so inexperienced and so many men were available.
