If, O my reader, though art merely a professor, and not a true sketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because other's go, not because your heart is right with God. This is your beginning. I will suppose that for the next 20 or 30 years you will be spared to go on as you do now, professing religion by outward attendance upon the means of grace, but having no heart in the matter. Tread softly, for I must show you the death-bed of such an one as yourself. Let us gaze upon him gently. A clammy sweat is on his brow, and he wakes up crying, " O God, it is hard to die. Did you send for my minister?" "Yes, he is coming." The minister comes. "Sir, I fear that I am dying!" "Have you any hope?" "I cannot say that I have. I fear to stand before my God. Oh! pray for me." The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the way of salvation is, for the ten thousandth time, put before him; but before he has grasped the rope, I see him sink. I may put my finger upon those cold eyelids, for they will never see anything here again. But where is the man, and where are the man's true eyes? It is written, "In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment.'' Ah! why did he not lift up his eyes before? Because he was so accustomed to hear the Gospel that his soul slept under it. Alas ! if you should lift up your eyes therel how bitter will be your wailings. Let the Saviour's own words reveal the woe: "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the top of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." There is a frightful meaning in those words; may you never have to spell it out by the red light of Jehovah's wrath!

C. H. Spurgeon

WE FLY TO THY PATRONAGE

We fly to thy patronage O Holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and Blessed Virgin.

Mary, Mother of Divine Grace, Mother of Mercy, shield me from the enemy and receive me at the hour of my death.

Amen.
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背后的诗是莎士比亚十四行诗的节选，画的时候想到就贴过来了

内容如下

唯有你永恒的夏日常新，
你的美亦将毫发无损。
死神也无缘将你幽禁，
你在我永恒的诗中长存。

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.