What is the gulf between heaven and hell?

The gulf that lies between paradise and hell is not one of physical distance—no such barrier as that exists—the two may lie closer together than two who are living in the same house—as close as grief and joy sometimes lie in the same heart. 

Wherever suffering is needed, not as a punishment for past misdeeds, but as fire to burn away the dross—it will be found there. 

Naturally, this pain comes generally when we first pass over and then when the anguish of the soul is great much may be done to teach and support it by those who have already emerged from the furnace. In the homes of all the “saints” may be found such sufferers—tenderly watched over, helped and guarded while the hard lessons are being learnt. 

Such learners have cast off but few of the old instincts and need to be fed and protected until they learn to exercise those new powers, which can provide them with all they need as simply as a flower grows.