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 parsons interference in the scientific treatment of patients and a mine owner resents Greys 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 Greys young nephew John
