When Parson Jim invaded Hoot Owl, Ariz. he found the saloon and dance hall the principal industries. Starting a revival in the latter place, he rouses a spark of religion lying dormant in the breast of Molly Brandon, wife of the "bad man" of the camp. When he is driven out and Molly follows him like a dutiful wife; she leaves her little daughter in the care of one good Parson Jim. With the little girl, the Parson starts proselyting until finally, after fifteen years, he has driven out his bitterest rival, the rum-seller, and converted the dance hall into a church. There the whole reclaimed community of Hoot Owls gathers for worship, not noting the worn and weary woman who slips into a rear pew. But after benediction, while Parson Jim is bidding "goodnight" to his happy parishioners, the organ in the supposedly empty church begins playing "Lead, Kindly Light." Recalling that only one person in camp knew that hymn when he started his revival fifteen years before, Parson Jim returns to find that his "lost sheep has returned to the fold." Judge of the rejoicing when the long-lost mother clasps "Parson Jim's Baby" in her arms, and the concluding picture shows her final resting place in the "God's Acre" which has replaced the "Bad Man's burying ground."