“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?”
“And so you have accrued unto your selves an odious Character in the Minds and Mouths of too many, ay very many, of your Hearers and Contributers. They are prejudiced against your Persons, & consequently against whatever you teach.” — Reverend John Williams, on ministers who promote the dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation