The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1964 Page: 2 of 4
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The Howe Enterprise
SOCIAL SECURITY
Women social security ben-
eficiaries, 62 years of age and
older, who receive checks as
wives or widows, have been
asking Gus Jones, social secu-
rity district manager in Sher-
man, about what and when
they are required to report
to the Social Security Admin-
istration.
Jones pointed out that
when an individual files an
applcation for social security
benefits, he agrees to report
certain events to the Admin-
istration. A woman who re-
ceives wife’s benefits is re-
sponsible for reporting chan-
ges in her marital statis such
as divorce, annulment or
death of her husband. Indi-
viduals receiving widow’s be-
nefits must give notification
When they remarry.
Jones further stated that
wives and widows under 72
must report when they have
earnings from work or self-
employment in excess of
$1200 a year.
He also emphasized that
failure to report marital sta-
tus may have an adverse
monetary effect on monthly
payments. It could result in
an overpayment of benefits,
which would have to be re-
paid or withheld from future
benefits.
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THIS WEEK’S SERMONETTE
THE BREVITY OF LIFE
; The shortest thing in life is life itself.
Time waits for no man. Stop for a mnute and
feel your heart. There is a steady beat, beat,
beat, beat. Your heart is actually beating
your life away. There will come a day when
it will cease to beat. The blood that contains
life for the body will no longer circulate. Life
for you will be gone.
In 1958 the oldest man in the world came
to America. He was one-hundred and sixty-
two years old. He was bom the year that
George) Washington was inaugurated presi-
dent of the United States. When asked about
his long life, his quick reply was, “It seems
only yesterday that I was roaming the moun-
tains of my coinmunity.” His community was
Columbia, South America. Yesterday, that’s
what life is, a yesterday. It passes wrom us
before we know it. Ask a person seventy-five
years old how long life has been. He will
quickly tell you it has passed before he real-
ized it.
We cannot stop life from passing or death
from coming. One races toward the other
Life is a journey from the cradle to the grave.
Man is born to die. How long his life will be
only God knows. Some live ten others twenty.
Most make it to fifty and more to seventy.
Few ever see a hundred. The body is wearing
out a little every day. The friction of time
takes its toll. The dust of the earth waits
for our bodies to return to dust. Life is a
passing event. D6ath is a waiting certainty.
James reminds of the brevity of life when
he writes, “Go to now, ye that say, Today
or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and
continue there a year, and buy and sell, and
get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be
on the morrow. For what is your life? It is
even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away. For ye ought tc
say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this
or that’’ (James 4:13-15). From this we see
three things about “The Brevity of Life.”
First, we have no assurance of tomorrow.
James pictures a man standing before a map
andT looking for a good city to begin his
business. He says, “Today or tomorrow I
Will go to this city and make a fortune.” James
quickly reminds us that none of us know
what is going to take place on the morrow.
“Bost not thyself of tomorrow; for thou
knowest not what a day may bring forth ’
(Proverbs 27:1). A man is foolish to think
he will always have tomorrow. Look at the
obituary column in the newspaper and you
will soon realize how quickly tomorrow can
pass for man. In the last few weeks the ages
have been 14, 15, 19, 21 and 35. A brief life
was even more brief. The brevity of life is
THE HOWE ENTERPRISE
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seen in the uncertainty of tomorrow.
Secondly, we are only a fleetaing shadow.
James tells us our life is like a vapour, we
appear for a brief time and then we are gone.
Of what is your body made? Dust! It came
from dust and it will return to dust. The only
certain thing about life is that sooner or later
it will end in death. This vapour or shadow
appears and then is swallowed up in death.
Job said life is “Swifter than a weaver’s
shuttle.” Job also said, “Man that is born of
a woman is a few days, and is full of trouble.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut
down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and contin
ueth not” (Job 14:1,2). The writer of First
Corinthians said, “For we are strangers be*
for thee, and sojourners, as were all our
fathers: our days on the earth are as a
shadow, and there is ni abiding.” The Psalm
ist said, “As for man, his days are as grass:
as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth.”
Life at its very best is brief. Just a vapour,
a shadow, a flower, or a blade1 of grass. Its
here today and gone tomorrow.
Thirdly, we must place our faith in God.
If we have no assurance at all of tomorrow1
and life is only a fleeting shadow, we must
prepare for eternity. James says, “Ye ought
to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that.” God holds our breath in His
hands. He has control of our heart beat. He
should have all of our life. This means body
and soul. Our days are numbered. Job said,
Seeing his days are determined, the number
of his months are with thee, thou hast ap-
pointed his bonds that he cannot pass” (Job
14.5). It is God’s will for every man to have
eternal life. Christ on the cross is proof of
that. God will not force a man to accept
Christ as hig Saviour. A man must place his
faith and trust in Christ because he wants
eternal life.
Life at its very betet is too brief. But the
man that gives his heart and life to Jesus
Christ will find that eternity with Christ will
be long enough.
God leaves man in this world long enough
to determine if he will accept Christ and if
so that he migb,t be of some use in bringing
the knowledge of Himself to others. The-
He transports the believer through the portal
of death to that Heavenly mansion that He
has prepared for them that love Him.
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