Well, then, this is what we have to mend. I have been urging the mending on these Sundays in Advent, in striving to show you that there is a GOD present to superintend, and provide, and care for you in this life, and in every event and moment of this life; that there is an actual and immediate judgment of every deed, good and evil, and that there is a present business of religion, and a direct service of GOD to be now attended to. It is not head-knowledge that you want, but heart-perception, and realisation. You want to feel what you must know (because the Bible has told you that GOD is a GOD at hand, and not a GOD afar off); that godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come; that the irreligious is condemned already. No expectation, no delay, no vision. All fulfilled, immediate, and substantially real. You fancy, perhaps, that it cannot be so. You urge that it is contrary to your experience; you have served GOD, and not been rewarded; you have trusted in Him, and not been supported; you have sinned against Him, and not been punished. Brethren, believe me, you have not. “Experience” means that which has been ascertained by trial. Make trial, and all will be proved. Devote yourselves now to GOD, follow Him, give up for Him to-day, and you shall be rewarded to-day. Sin against Him to-day, and you shall be punished to-day. Invoke His aid to-day, and you shall surely have it. Do not prescribe your own mode of visitation. Be sure that He will use His, and watch for it, and seek to know it, and then you will have an experience to quote. I only repeat to you what He has said. When you know Him, you will find that He is true. Then wait on Him, acquaint yourselves with Him, serve Him in the present, and look for Him in the present, and you will find Him in the present. SERMON V. FAITH AND ITS BLESSEDNESS. ST. JOHN, XX., 29. _Thomas_, _because thou hast seen me_, _thou hast believed_: _blessed are they that have not seen_, _and yet have believed_.