Article June 29, 1968 Issue

Real "Happy Hours"

[For young adults]

DONALD M. SWINNEY

While walking down a busy street one day, I saw a misleading sign hanging in the window of a business that serves alcoholic beverages. It advertised, "Happy Hours—3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m."

Considering this spurious assumption that happiness could be obtained in strong drink, I thought how similar was the deceptive lie of the serpent when it whispered into the ear of Eve the depraved notion that she could find happiness through indulgence in evil.

The allegory in Genesis reports the serpent as saying, "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Gen. 3:5; Hypnotized by this false attraction, Eve agreed. "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."

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