Now, I wish to read something about prayer over here in the good Book, in James the 5th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Everyone listen closely now. Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing with oil in the name of the Lord: The prayer of faith shall save the sick…the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed any sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man…(Now, a righteous man is not a sinless man. See? A righteous man is a man who is confessing his sins in a righteous One. You see? See, a righteous man…Now, watch, to prove it, the next verse:) Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are (See?), and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. (A man that has his ups-and- downs, just like we do, not an Angel, a man…See?) And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Get the People to Believe, 1952-07-17, Hammond, IN, §4