---
title: 'The Hour for Africa'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Lindsay Withrow'
date: 1881-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Colonization'
- 'Foreign Missions'
scriptures:
- 'Luke 19'
- 'Matthew 3'
- 'Isaiah 60'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/withrow-1881-the-hour-for-africa
---

# The Hour for Africa

1881 address urging American support for African colonization and missions—promoting Liberia's development, Christian civilization, and redress for past wrongs.

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