it is our work to purify ourselves by the strength and the power that is given to us by the Master. II. The second thought here is this: This purifying of ourselves is the link or bridge between the present and the future. “Now are we the sons of God,” says John, in the context. That is the pier upon the one side of the gulf. “It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but when He is made manifest we shall be like Him.” That is the pier on the other. How are the two to be connected? There is only one