---
title: 'The Leading Nation'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Lindsay Withrow'
date: 1879-08-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Missions (General)'
- 'Providence'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 62'
- 'Mark 16'
- 'Romans 10'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/withrow-1879-the-leading-nation
---

# The Leading Nation

1879 sermon urging America to heed Isaiah 62:10 as a summons to lead in evangelism. Praises progress, schools, and Providence but warns against pride and misplaced national presumption.

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