Malinda Elliott Cramer (1844 – 1906) was a co-founder of the Church of Divine Science, a healer, and an important figure in the early New Thought movement.
Hoping
to alleviate a persistent health problem, she moved to San Francisco in 1870,
where she met Charles Lake Cramer[1], a photographer, whom she married
in 1872 and bore three sons, only one of which reached adulthood. Despite the
move, health problems continued to plague her, making her an effective invalid.
At this moment, she was filled with a sense of joy and deep gratitude knowing she was healed. The answer was within and illuminated her consciousness like the rising sun. The Omnipresence of God and God's perfection transformed her beliefs and brought her to Health.
Malinda then sought out Emma Curtis Hopkins, in 1887, to strengthen her understanding of this Divine experience. This led to classes and then to Malinda development of her own system of New Thought. She felt the name Divine Science which had been used in India and Europe to describe the mystic arts was the best description for her form of New Thought.
Divine Science: http://www.divinesciencefederation.org/
[1]Charles Lake Cramer (1835 - 1911) was an ambrotypist, melainotypist photographer.
Cramer was born in Canada. His father, simply Cramer, was American. His mother Margaret Lake was Candian.He grew up in
Michigan and went west in 1854 or 1855
with the Gibson wagon train. In 1855 he had an ambrotype and
melainotype business in Santa Barbara, CA. In 1858 he had a gallery in San
Andreas, CA and was in Suisun City, CA same year. From 1863 to 1906 he was in
San Francisco. 1863 the census reported his personal assets worth $300, or
about $5000 today.
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