Article July 27, 1968 Issue

The Ethic of Divine Love

[For young adults]

DORINDA B. LE CLAIR

Rightly viewed, morality can be seen as an effort to live that Love which is God, divine Principle. Practiced from this standpoint, morality becomes something other than mores evolved from human opinion or environmental factors and sometimes referred to as ethics of love. Morality with a spiritual starting point can be called the ethic of divine Love. Christian Science makes this clear.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says, "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle." Science and Health, p. 275;

Today many groups are heralding the advent of what they call the new morality or ethics of love. These ethics are various in character, contradictory in their premises, and uncertain in their efficacy. The ethic of divine Love, clearly understood and consistently practiced, can be counted on to guide us to right decisions.

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