Emphasis Preaching Journal

In that wonderful old movie, High Noon, Gary Cooper is Will Kane, marshal of a small rough town on the prairie. He has cleaned up the town, and not everybody likes it cleaned up. Now, he's getting married. His bride is a Quaker, and she's persuaded him to hang up his guns and his star and move to a town 100 miles away to run a store. Just then, the townspeople hear that Frank Miller has been pardoned for his murder conviction and will be arriving in town on the noon train. The new marshal won't be in town until tomorrow and none of his old deputies can handle this. And no one in town will help. No one will stand up to the outlaw and his friends, even when they think Will Kane can do it by himself, and only needs the backing, they still won't do it. Some won't just because they liked it the way it was. Some think if they stay out of it they won't be bothered. In one scene Kane walks out of the door of the jail into the center of the dusty street and there is only silence. Even the girl who was supposed to love him turns her back. Everyone wants him to quit, to turn back, to run away. Kane only wants to do the right thing because it is the right thing. But he has to do it alone. Why is it that the righteous person is so often alone? "You've got to walk that lonesome valley; You've got to walk it for yourself. Nobody else can walk it for you; You've got to walk it for yourself."
-- Mosley