An unobtrusive, unimpressive scene, almost indistinguishable, even to the curious eye of the archæologist, "in the maze of undistinguished hills which encompass it"--with nothing to attract the eye, and nothing to fire the imagination; large slabs of bare rock traversed by a well-worn thoroughfare; "no religio loci, no awful shades, no lofty hills." So is the site of Bethel described by the modern traveller. Yet this was none other than the House of God; this was the very gate of heaven. An unimpressive scene in itself, but appearing still more commonplace, when contrasted with the famous shrines of heathendom--the rock fortress of the Athene, or the pleasant groves of Daphne, or the cloven…
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