Following the Things That Make for Peace
"THE features of the locality enable us to fix the very spot where this notable example of following the things that make for peace was uttered. Abraham had apparently built his altar on the summit of the 'mountain east of Bethel,' where he and Lot then stood, with all the land spread out like a map at their feet. The country around is now only a succession of brown and rounded limestone rocks, rising into bare hills, without a tree to cover them; but it may then have presented lovely park-like glades, as in Gilead, with open pasturage, shaded by well-wooded slopes, stretching into the blue distance, 'northward, southward, eastward, and westward,' in varied beauty."