Healing and Prayer

It is not true that if we gather together and pray for a sick man he will always be
restored. No believer would die if that were the case, for every Christian man would
find some friends in Christ to pray for his recovery. If, therefore, God had divested
himself of his omnipotence, and put it upon us, we should keep our dear friends here
as long as Methuselah, and no one would die. It would be a kind of semi-murder to
allow our brother or sister to depart: it would be destroying life by omission to pray,
and that would be murder in a degree. I thank God that he has not endowed us with
any such power, for it would be a very dangerous privilege for any of us to carry
about us.