Divine Science
In 1887, she began taking classes with Emma Curtis Hopkins, an important teacher in the New Thought movement, and began to practice faith-healing herself. In October, Cramer inaugurated Harmony, a monthly journal. In March 1888, she and her husband opened what would become the Home College of Divine Science. The term "Divine Science", however, was not coined by Cramer, but had been used earlier by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, as well as by Wilberforce Juvenal Colville, who had published a book by that title that year.
In 1892, Cramer helped form the International Divine Science Association, a forerunner of the International New Thought Alliance, which would interconnect the various New Thought centers. In 1893, she helped open the second Divine Science College, in Oakland, and undertook several cross-country missionary trips.
In 1898, Cramer trained Nona L. Brooks, ordaining her as a minister in the Church of Divine Science. Brooks returned to Denver and, with sisters Fannie Brooks James and Alethea Brooks Small, formed a church there, one which would eventually become the home church of the denomination.
Cramer died August 2, 1906, in San Francisco, due to injuries received in the great San Francisco earthquake.
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