W. F. Evans not only healed but he wrote a great deal. His great distinction lies in the fact that he was the first to write of the new healing and its basis as taught and practiced by Quimby. His first book, The Mental Cure, (Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body, Both in Health and Disease, and the Psychological Method of Treatment,) was published in 1869, only three years after Quimby's death and six years before the appearance of Science & Health by Mrs. Eddy. Thus Evans became the first in a long line of exponents of the basis of New Thought ideas and methods to set them forth in published book form.

Evans continued to write during his whole active career. Mental Medicine was published in 1872; Soul and body, Evans' third book, saw the light the same year as Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health did, in 1875. His most widely read book, The Divine Law of Cure, appeared in 1881 and went through many editions. The Primitive Mind Cure was issued in 1885, and a year later, in 1886, Evans' last book, Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics, was given to the public. This too had a wide sale. Whilst the exact circulation figures for these books is not known, a ninth edition of The Mental Cure was called for more than sixteen years after it was first issued; Primative Mind Cure went into at least five editions, and it is most likely that various editions of his other books appeared also.

One certain fact is that he was the first and indeed the only figure, aside from Mrs. Eddy, who attempted to work out a consistent philisophically supported system of what may be called mental or metaphysical healing, during the first two decades after the death of P. P. Quimby. The New Thought periodicals which began to appear in the late 1880's continued to carry advertisements for his books at least to the end of the century, and copies of the books were to be found in the major public libraries and the libraries of most New Thought leaders and centers.

he established a kind of mind-cure sanitarium at Salisbury, Massachusetts, to which people came for rest and healing.

Evans' The Mental Cure is no longer served by Cornerstone:

The Mental Cure