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. I r-s. ' ' s £? z Wsb\ Br W # X @ iJIW^TSK® 89 1 z^l ft) W.IETY 'W' state > 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 gr 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 The Golden Age needs your renewal subscription to tide them over these “HARD TIMES?* Wont you please LOOK AT YOUR LABEL and send in the amount due immediately. It will help us in our fight for the right and against the flagrant evils of the day. \ 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. • a* 4 T,‘, ■' ‘ § 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. ONE DOLLAR AND FIFT SCENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPT