It is with a sincere desire that my testimony may be a help to some of the men and women who believe that they must go out and "make" a living that I relate my experience. Many years ago I learned that one's place is not always of one's own choosing, but is the result of a willingness to let God's will be done.
Previous to my entering the service in the First World War, I had enjoyed a number of years in theatrical work, a profession for which I had been thoroughly trained, expecting it would be my career. At the close of the war I married, and my attitude toward this career was changed, inasmuch as it involved at that time constant traveling which would deprive me of an established home and participation in the activity of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist.
As a clearer sense of home unfolded to me, I was led to abandon the career I had planned and to enter the business world. For a little over a year I found a certain success in this new field of endeavor, but little real joy. Earnest work was taken up in Christian Science for a better realization of harmony, home, supply, and place. As the result of a talk with the owner of the advertising agency where I was employed, a way unexpectedly opened for me to establish my own business in an activity wherein my early training could be utilized. This activity would permit me to maintain a permanent home.
