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VOL. VIII/t-No. 26.
TENNESSEE EDITOR, REFORMER, PREACHER AND LECTURER IS A BRILLIANT AND BELOVED MEMBER OF THE FAMOUS
“FOLK FOLKS’—A FACILE PEN, A ROYAL SOUL AND A GIFTED TONGUE.
T is a worthy and comforting commen
tary on the inspiration and victory of
a lofty family ideal when an active
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member of an illustrious family adds
lustre himself to an honored family name.
That is the contribution which Edgar E.
Folk, the Nashville editor, preacher and refor
mer makes to the reputation of the famous
“Folk Family” of Tennessee. Indeed, he was
one of the first to write the name of “Folk”
high up on the scroll of Tennessee’s trust citi
zenship and the South’s most progressive re
ligious life.
A Chesterfield in Speech and Bearing.
I have known Dr. Edgar E. Folk for nearly
two decades now, and I can deliberately say
that 1 have never seen an inkling or an iota
of evidence —not the shade of the shadow of
a suggestion, that Rev. Martin Ball, the stal
wart Baptist pastor at Winona, Miss., was mis
taken when he said: “Edgar Folk—what a
treasure to have such a man as a friend. He
is a veritable Chesterfield in speech and man
ner and is as genuine to the core as any man
I have ever known. That familiar expression,
‘A scholar and a gentleman,’ just exactly fits
Edgar Folk, for he is a scholar of wide re
search, a theologian with a clear head and
withal such a Christian and a gentleman that
he does not know the art of misreating an
opponent or going back on a trusting friend.”
That is a high tribute from a man who knows
how to judge, and these splendid words were
spoken at my bedside one day when the great
hearted Martin Ball was nursing the Georgia
editor and his broken leg during a six weeks’
siege at Winona a little over three years ago.
The author of the tribute was not speaking
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EDGAR E. FOLK—A Platform Chesterfield
ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 21, 1913
for publication—it was just a casual heart
tribute from a long-time friend to one of the
brightest writers and one of the truest and
bravest characters among all the editors and
preachers I have ever known.
As a preacher, Dr. Folk’s manner is not
what we might call “impassioned”—it is
measured ,cogent and convincing.
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Dr. Edgar E. Folk.
A Fearless Whiskey Fighter.
As the uncompromising enemy of the liquor
traffic and president for years of the Anti-Sa
loon League of volcanic, turbulent Tennessee,
he proved himself to be as incisive as a Damas
cus blade and as annihilating in his argument
By Wm. D. UPSHAW, Editor.
as the devil and the liquor crowd didn’t want
him to be!
Indeed, Edgar E. Folk played a part just
about as heroic in securing a prohibition law
for Tennessee as his famous brother, Joseph
W. Folk, did in driving the political grafters
from St. Louis.
As editor of the Baptist and Reflector, he
has never allowed the fear or offending the
weak-kneed partisans and “losing a subscrib
er" keep him from hewing to the line on every
phase of moral and political reform. And
whether in his own paper or in the columns
of the secular press, woe to that man who
has been unwise enough to court a linquistic
combat and found himself impaled on the
point of Edgar Folk’s powerful pen.
A Platform Delight.
But of recent years perhaps Dr. Folk is
seen at his best as a platform painter of the
pictures, places and people he saw in the Holy
Land.
it is generally conceded that his letters of
travel, “A Pilgrim in Foreign Lands,” are the
most delightful that any American traveler
has published since the days of Stoddard or
Wharton. Dr. Folk is now delivering these lec
tures with a superb stereopticon accompani
ment, and these pictures from real life, sup
plemented by his illuminating words which
drop from his gifted tongue, “like new-coined
money from the mint,” give a charming even
ing of education and inspiration for the
church, the Sunday school, the B. Y. P. U.,
the Christian Endeavor, the Epworth League
or the Social and Civic Club. This tribute
is an unsought, voluntary tribute of love. Send
for Edgar E. Folk, of Nashville, Tenn., the
Tennessee Chesterfield of the lecture platform
—for wherever he touches a life or a com
munity with pen or tongue, he leaves in the
heart an upward sweep for all that is bright,
beautiful and good.
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