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A picture with a first-class, human situation; but which is somewhat overdrawn. Its object is to show us the trials of a daughter of a poor country minister. Her trials, like ours, come from her poverty, and her plight strongly awakens our sympathy. The picture's author knew his business and shows her coming out on top in the end, not only in spite of but partly because of her peculiar trials. It is a picture dealing in wholesome sentiment and humor good enough to make hearty laughs. Miss Beverly Bayne plays the minister's daughter; Mr. Francis X. Bushman plays the organ company's man who wins her for his bride, and Miss Eva Prout plays the most snobbish of the girls of the church. The picture, though good, loses grip in places, because it contains self-contradictions. The church with such wooden steps wouldn't have had those snobbish people connected with it; they would have gone to the stone church. The situation itself, in any church at all, would have soon raised up a tea cup thunder shower and divided the church into factions. - The Moving Picture World, August 17, 1912