“We believe that getting the [COVID-19] vaccine is a way for all of us to show our love for each other, keep each other safe …” — Salvation Army today
“Who knows how much some of us have suffered through life owing to the ‘immortal Jenner’? … The latent seeds of all manner of diseases are doubtless sown in thousands of healthy children.” — Salvation Army co-founder Catherine Booth on vaccination (1868)
“My times are in the Lord’s hands; I am now in health, and am not willing to bring upon myself a disorder [via inoculation], the consequences of which I cannot possibly foresee … I choose to wait [God’s] appointment, and not to rush upon even the possibility of danger without a call. … Let me fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are great) and not into the hands of men.” — John Newton
“Food is taken into the stomach through the mouth, air into the lungs through the nostrils; but there is no orifice prepared by Divine wisdom for the insertion of the vaccine virus. … The vaccine virus—the baneful discovery of man’s perverted reason—is introduced into the system in defiance of natural laws, and every such violation brings its punishment.”
“Will he not likewise be distracted with horror at the thought of the high injustice, and foulest tyranny he has heen guilty of, in hazarding and bringing to an end the life of one, whom, as being his own flesh, he ought to have proved tenderest to ; and over whom no law whatever invests him with a right of absolute disposal?”
“It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God: this was our Saviour’s answer to the Devil, when he would have persuaded Him to the commission of a presumptuous action. There are angels, says the tempter, to take care of you, so that you cannot possibly come to any harm; then make the experiment, and cast thyself down. Now there is no great difference between this of the devil and the temptation which lies before us; both intimate the safety of the practice, and both pretend the blessing of God; our Lord’s reproof, then, will serve them both.”