WHEN I feed my fowls, I give them part barley, part peas. They eat up the barley in a trice, and let the peas remain till they are obliged to turn to them. The secret is, the peas require splitting, and are not, therefore, easy to swallow.
There is here a small lesson for preachers, some of whom are little listened to, simply because their ideas require splitting into a size suitable to their hearers’ capacities. Most liked, best understood: remember this!