Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1907

Penciling in the margin, page 47, of Arnold J. Toynbee, Christianity and Civilization, the Burge Memorial Lecture delivered at Oxford May 23, 1940, and published by Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1947. Annotations dated

May 28, 1951

/Toynbee, saying there is not much to be done about the unregenerate nature of man, but there is none­theless “the opportunity open to souls, by way of the learning that comes through suffering, for getting into closer communion with God, and becoming less unlike Him, during their passage through this world.”/

     Suffering and death are of hell. Creation and joy are of heaven. Hell is not the anteroom of heaven.