Bill Hunter - Author The Dawn of a New Day

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Charles Timothy Prutzer

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The Dawn of a New Day
God's Covenant With America

In The Dawn of a New Day, Bill continues his journey of ‘God’s Covenant With America’. This nation's two great documents, The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution, establish the framework for a nation of freedom such as the world had never seen. As John Adams said: “If we can keep it”.

There was no such hope at the beginning of the twentieth century when a great revival spread from Wales to America and throughout the world. Then came two World Wars, a great depression, the Holocaust, and an enduring Cold War. These events changed everything in the world, including America.

Now it appears that America is losing her sense of purpose and her definition of freedom Most Americans now believe that freedom means their right to make their own rules and that America must permit them to do so.

But God has not forgotten His covenant with this nation, and there are those, a growing number, who recognize that God has made a covenant with America.

Now in the twenty-first century, as America pursues her destiny and future, it is Bill’s belief that there is, indeed, the dawning of a new day.

G. K. Chesterton, an outstanding English writer of the first half of the twentieth century, wrote a very interesting book about America entitled, “What I saw in America.” Chesterton lamented the general decline of democratic ideas in Western civilization, concluding that the highest point of democratic idealism was exhibited in the American Republic in the late eighteenth century based upon its, “dedication to the proposition that all men are equal.” Chesterton grieved for the future of democratic ideas:

The world cannot keep its own ideals. The secular order cannot make secure any one of its own noble and natural conceptions of secular perfection. That will be found, as time goes on, the ultimate argument for a Church independent of the world and the secular order. So far as that democracy becomes or remains Catholic and Christian, that democracy will remain democratic. In so far as it does not, it will become wildly and wickedly undemocratic.

Then, he refers to an ancient fable and concludes:

It was far back in the land of legends, where instincts find their true images, that the cry went forth that freedom is an eagle, whose glory is gazing at the sun.

I would change that last sentiment slightly, “freedom is an eagle, whose glory is gazing at the Son.” I have used Chesterton's quote and Tim’s dramatic painting of an eagle soaring above the earth to illustrate Dawn.

Bill Concludes:
In this present day, America struggles to define her purpose and calling, not only for America's history, but for God's plan in the consummation of the ages. And the end of it all is written in the palm of God’s hand.