Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John. 译文(2): 内战老兵约西亚 · 格雷来到一个小镇担任福音部长。随着时间的推移，他有了一个家庭和许多朋友，但他也发现与他的一些教区居民摩擦。一个年轻的医生对牧师干涉病人的科学治疗感到愤怒，矿主对格雷保护一个老佃农感到愤怒，因为这个佃农的一小块土地阻碍了他继续采矿。格雷必须面对一场公共卫生危机和一群私刑暴徒，这一切都是通过格雷年轻的侄子约翰的眼睛和记忆看到和描述的。