- A minister who was raised in the Kentucky hills returns home from preaching in Vermont to try to end a generations-long feud between his family and another, the McCoys. His family wants nothing to do with any kind of truce, and throws him out. He moves into a small shack in the mountains, and continues his preaching of non-violence and peaceful co-existence. However, when he is forced to rescue his sister from the clutches of one of the McCoy men, he finds his philosophy put to the test.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- David Hudson is a young minister living in Vermont. He is the son of family of Kentucky feudists. The mortal enemy of the Hudsons is the McCoys. At the very time the young minister is being honored by a call from a richer and more influential parish in the north his father is killed in a pitched battle between the Hudsons and McCoys. The same mail that brings the young minister word of his promotion brings him a letter from home telling him of the killing of his father and asking him to return and aid in the extermination of the McCoys. "Dave" Hudson declines the call from the church in the north and goes back home, but not to murder but to preach the Gospel. His family is so enraged at his refusal to take up arms against their enemy that they turn him from the house. He takes up his residence in a little mountain cabin and puts out handbills announcing he will preach the following Sunday on "Love Thy Neighbor." Chance gives him the opportunity to rescue Mary McCoy, the favorite daughter of the Hudson's worst enemy, from a brute who has attacked her. A little later the oldest McCoy boy attacks little Elsie Hudson and hurls her from a bridge into the river, where she would have been drowned had not Dave seen her floating downstream and rescued her. This attack of a McCoy on a defenseless girl is more than Dave can stand and he renounces for the moment his ministry and goes forth to kill the man who has attacked his sister with his bare hands. Straight to the McCoy house Dave makes his way and there learns that the elder McCoy, having wrung a confession from his son, had turned the boy out and disowned him. Dave turns back to the woods in search of the man he sought, A terrific storm breaks and at its height Dave begs the God he has served to bring the man he was after into his power. As though in answer to his prayer, young Hudson falls down an embankment and lands at the very feet of the man who has sworn to kill him. As Dave's hands close on the man's throat, his victim begs that his life be spared and makes his plea for "God's sake." The words strike Dave hard and he unloosens his grip on the man's throat. Dave has returned to his preaching. He has allowed the man he sought to escape when he had him in his very grasp, but the effect had been better than as though he had killed him. A feeling of friendship sprang up between the families that had been enemies for twenty-five years. Dave eventually marries Mary McCoy and the oldest and bitterest enemies in the two families become friends.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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