To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his first, at Thrums, Scotland. This was made possible through the self-sacrifices of his widowed mother, to educate him for the ministry. The community of Thrums is made up of weavers, who work hard, have little and accomplish much. They are ultra-religious and look upon their pastor with such reverence that he is a little lower than the angels. While naturally intelligent, they are grounded in dogma and intolerance. Just after the Little Minister takes charge of the "Auld Licht Kirk" and the Manse, the weavers resent a reduction, by the manufacturers, in their pay and a strike is declared.
Clara Kimball Young
as Lady Babbie
James Young
as Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister
Flora Finch
as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
William V. Ranous
as Rob Dow
Charles Eldridge
as Sanders Webster
Rosemary Theby
as
Tefft Johnson
as
Mrs. E.M. Kimball
as Mrs. Dishart, the Little Minister's Mother
Robert Gaillard
as Wearywold - The Policeman
Herbert Barry
as Lord Rintoul
Evelyn Dumo
as Nannie
Richard Leslie
as Mc Kenzie - Friend of Rintoul
