Ruth and Lem Heck are orphans. Ruth is a nurse in a small town populated by a religious sect called "The Seekers." Their object is to seek those that are needy and administer to their needs. Ruth and Lem live with Rev. Hood. Lem is apprentice in a machine shop. Two crooks in the machine shop rob the village bank with Lem`s tools, which they stole. Lem is accused and sentenced to jail for fifteen years. Three years pass. Ruth laments the absence of her brother, whose health is failing. Rev. Timothy Hood heeds the call of another little village of the same sect to send them a nurse and sends Ruth. She arrives at the little village of Canaan Mountain and is met by Sheriff John Mount, the son of Rev. Israel Mount, with whom she is to live. One Sabbath a drunken brute is abusing his wife at the door of the church. John, who is trying to aid the wife, is about to be shot by the husband, when he is saved by Ruth. John and Ruth help the wife, and gain her friendship.