Excerpt from Chaff and Wheat: A Few Gentle FlailingsDear Friends:The papers here printed have enjoyed the hospitality of the columns of America. It was there that Mustard Seed met first with many indulgent friends, who grew more numerous and more charitable when Mustard Seed appeared in book-form and was generously welcomed. If this companion volume, Chaff and Wheat, receives a fraction of such welcome and seems in the smallest way to deserve it, then there is one who will be very happy and very grateful to Heaven for his friends.Beneath the light chaff, dear friends, you will find, we may hope, much good, wholesome wheat. The threshing and winnowing was meant to be ever so gentle, but should a sharper stroke of the flail now and again come your way, be sure that it was aimed not at you but at that unpalatable outer casing which hides from our full appreciation and enjoyment the sweet, golden yield every one knows to be yours.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.