Rev. Mohr places money collected from subscribers to a church fund into the care of his fiancée's father, .John Hippie. Threatened with the loss of his entire fortune, Hippie uses the church money in an endeavor to save himself from a financial crash. He confesses to Rev. Mohr that he spent the money. The young clergyman resolves that grace shall come to the name of Anna Hippie. the girl he loves and he sacrifices his own reputation for the love of her. In the eyes of the world he is a thief. He leaves his pastorate and as the years go by works for the Master in the tenement districts. On his deathbed Hippie confesses to his daughter that it was her father who was the thief and not the young clergyman. The girl searches for the man she has never forgotten. She finds him. She escorts him to his former church and before the congregation assembled, tells the story of Rev. Mohr's self-sacrifice.