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. Brooks, ordaining her as a minister in the Church of Divine Science on December 1, 1898. In 1893, she helped open the second Divine Science College, in Oakland, and undertook several cross-country missionary trips. In 1892, Cramer founded the International Divine Science Association, a forerunner of the International New Thought Alliance, which would interconnect the various New Thought centers. 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 May 1888, she and her husband opened what would become the Home College of Divine Science. In October 1888, Cramer inaugurated Harmony, a monthly journal. In 1887, she began to practice faith-healing herself. 'Three Initiates' (authors of the Kybalion).
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