Malinda founded the Divine Science Home School in San Francisco on May 4th, 1888. Unfortunately the school and its wonderful library, the largest collection of New Thought texts at the time were destroyed in the fire that consumed many parts of San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906.
Malinda's work soon resulted in a burgeoning Divine Science movement with churches and centers around the world. She even organized the International Divine Science Association on May 17, 1892 which later evolved into the International New Thought Alliance.
Unfortunately over the ensuing years, spiritual politics pervaded Divine Science resulting in a steady decline of membership and consequent closure of churches and centers. Only recently have any new Divine Science churches been formed for 50 years.
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