May Buckley and Harry Meyers and Charles Arthur are so-stars in an unusually strong drama. Peter Lang also is impressive in the work that falls to him. The story tells of the efforts of the sister of the minister to reform a wayward son of a Christian mother. The young man leaves home and becomes a tramp. A year later he returns to his home town. Hungry, he enters a bakery and steals a loaf of bread. To elude a pursuing policeman he enters the cellar of the church and climbs to the belfry. In the morning he is awakened by the tolling the bell. In his rags he descends to the base of the tower and meets the sexton. Harry has seen from the belfry the approach of a funeral. It is several moments before the sexton recognizes him. When he does he informs the young man that the funeral is that of his mother. The sexton opens the door opposite the main aisle of the little church and shows the youth the casket in front of the altar. The minister is talking to the assembled friends, who fill the church. Harry, in his rags, falteringly makes his way down the aisle and throws himself on the casket. The sister of the minister comes to him and with her arms about him and aided by the old sexton, leads him back down the aisle and out of the church. May Buckley has never struck a finer or a truer dramatic note than she does in this scene. The closing picture is of the reformation in the young man reclaimed by the sister and both congratulated by the minister. It is a film that should be a feature on any night; in smaller communities it should be particularly valuable on Sundays. - The Moving Picture World, August 17, 1912
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