- Young minister Brand Cameron meets stage star Adrienne Durant at her father's humble country home where she has gone to recover from the excitement of an attempted suicide by one of her admirers. Believing that Adrienne is an innocent country girl, Cameron falls in love with her until, in a fit of remorse, the actress tells him the truth and returns to her old life in New York. Cameron follows and, unable to give Adrienne up, is denounced by his parishioners and forced to resign. He takes his calling to a tough lumber camp while Adrienne accepts the charge of a school for poor children. At the camp, Faro Kate falsely accuses Cameron of fathering her child and the lumbermen, enraged, set fire to the church. When Cameron risks his life to save Kate's baby trapped in the burning building, however, Kate retracts her lie and the minister is finally accepted by the gruff inhabitants of the camp. Cameron's happiness is made complete when Adrienne comes to join him in his new ministry.
- Cameron is minister of a fashionable church. Philip Burbank, son of one of his parishioners, is infatuated with Adrienne Durant, a comedy star, whose love affairs have made her notorious. Phil steals his mother's jewels for Adrienne. She is loath to take them, and when his father calls, she returns them, saying she never wants to see Phil again. Phil confesses to Cameron, who tries to effect a reconciliation between father and son, but Phil commits suicide when denied admission to Adrienne's apartment. Cameron contracts diphtheria, and when convalescent, goes to the country for a rest. To escape the condemnation of the public Adrienne flees to her father's country home. There she resumes her own name, Mary Darwin. She meets Cameron and they fall in love. Dr. Stewart, one of Cameron's parishioners, visits him and recognizes Mary as Adrienne. She reveals her past to Cameron, and believing that he never could be contented with her, she leaves for New York. Cameron follows and traces her to a café, where she is giving a drunken party to drown her sorrow. Enraged, he drags her home, and pitying her, forgives her. Cameron's parishioners denounce him and he is forced to resign. He goes to Summit Camp, a timberland town owned by Gregg. The lumbermen are drunkards, gunmen and ex-convicts. There are but few women, one the widowed mother of a boy; another, Faro Kate, an outcast, in love with Carewe, the saloonkeeper. On Sunday, the men surge toward the church. They mock Cameron and some even throw stones. Carewe demands to know why Cameron has come, and he replies, "To take some of the hell out of this camp, and I am going to stick until I have made men of you." When they attempt to enter the church in this boisterous spirit, Cameron reminds them that he will deal with them as men first. A fight ensues and Carewe is led off, defeated and bleeding. Cameron finishes the next man, and the lumbermen decide he is game and they will give him a chance. Adrienne accepts charge of a school for poor children, one of Gregg's philanthropies. She wins their hearts, but one girl refuses to behave. When Adrienne dismisses her, the child's mother comes and recognizes her. She calls a meeting and demands that Adrienne be removed. A new teacher is appointed in her place, but the children are so unhappy that she is reinstated. Carewe leaves Summit Camp with Nevada, a half-native girl, and when Kate tries to stop him, he beats her. She is about to throw herself over a cliff when Cameron restrains her, and pleads with her. Carewe soon tires of Nevada, and kills her, and a posse tracks him. He hides in the church, and does not shield him when the sheriff arrives. Kate denounces Cameron, saying he is a stool pigeon, and has been making love to her, and that he is the father of her child. The men set fire to the church in an attempt to burn Cameron. Inside are Kate's baby and the widow's boy. Cameron rushes up, and recognizing what is happening, rescues the boy and the baby. Kate confesses she lied about him. Adrienne reaches Summit Camp and nurses Cameron back to health; a new church is erected on the site of the old one, dedicated to "Brand Cameron, God's servant and Man's friend." Cameron and Adrienne are married in the new church.
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