John and Phil Burton are brothers. John is a young minister and Phil a young heartbreaker. Phil plays with the affections of all the girls in their town, and one in particular, Mary, who loves him. John is angry with his brother for his soulless conduct, and on leaving for another city, where he has been nominated, he makes his brother promise to marry Mary. This Phil promises after some remonstrance. When John has departed, however, Phil forgets his promises and instead of marrying Mary, goes through a mock ceremony with her, helped innocently by a college chum. Five years later we see John in his new home. Mary comes along the village road with her child, weary and sad, seeking John. She has been deserted by Phil. John receives her and promises that his brother shall right the wrong done to her and sets detectives to find Phil. In the meantime, the village gossips are busy and decide that the conduct of John in receiving a young woman and child in his parsonage is shameful and that such immorality should not be allowed. They therefore request John to vacate the parsonage. John finally succeeds in finding Phil and in a very dramatic scene forces a return of Phil’s manhood and succeeds in this way in arranging a marriage between Phil and Mary, John himself marries them in his little church, and as the gossips arrive to insist on his immediate departure, they are greeted at the door of the church by John, who introduces them to his brother, his wife and child.