_The Entablature of Truth Makes a Discovery at Amalon_ The house of Rae became a house of importance in the little settlement in the Pine Valley.

It was not only the home of the highest Church official in the community, but it was the largest and best-furnished house, so that visiting dignitaries stayed there.

It stood a little way from the loose-edged group of cabins that formed the nucleus of the settlement, on ground a little higher, and closer to the wooded canon that gashed the hills on the east.
The style of house most common in the village was long, low-roofed, of hewn logs, its front pierced by alternating doors and windows.

From the number of these might usually be inferred the owner's current prospects for glory in the Kingdom; for behind each door would be a wife to exalt him, and to be exalted herself thereby in the sole way open to her, to thrones, dominion, and power in the celestial world.

There were many of these long, profusely doored houses; but many, too, of less external promise; of two doors or even one.