“It's a dangerous thing. We had in our country just now that Salk vaccine. They asked everybody to take it, young and old, to inoculate from this horrible polio. And everybody, thousands went in to take it. And how did they--how did they do that? You see, you find out in taking doctor's medicine...You know, it'll work on some people, and then it won't work on the others, because that you know, everybody ain't made alike. Now, we have this penicillin. I carry a card in my pocket so that if I'd ever have an accident, a doctor must never give me penicillin. It would kill me. So it'll kill some people and help others, because this serum doesn't work just right on all the people.” [The Way Back, Shreveport, LA 62-1123]

“It's dangerous if you've got a disease, and the--and the doctor's got a toxin for that disease, and you don't go get inoculated. Like smallpox, an epidemic in the land of smallpox--if you don't go get vaccinated, you could die with them smallpox. Like the great Salk vaccine now. You say, "You believe in Divine healing, and talking about medicine?" Oh, yes. Uh-huh. God heals all sickness. Medicine don't heal no sickness. We know that. Medicine does not heal. There's no doctor will tell you that medicine heals. Medicine cannot build tissues. It takes God to do that. Psalms 103:3 said, "I am the Lord who heals all thy diseases." Now, you can break your arm. A doctor can set it; he can't heal it. Have a toothache, he can pull the tooth out; but he can't heal it. You got appendix. He can remove the appendix, but can't heal where he cut. It takes God to do it. He is the physician of all. Now, we have remedies, and so forth.” [Why? Phoenix, AZ 61-0128]

“You know what? If you refuse to take the doctor's medicine, it's dangerous. You might die if you don't take the doctor's toxin. You might die, and that's dangerous to not take it. Like the Salk vaccine, like the smallpox...When I go overseas I--I... They believe... They--they give me so many shots I look like a guinea egg to get into places where they just, the shots--shots with yellow fever and--and all kinds of toxins. They say that keep you from taking it. I didn't want to take it, but you have to take it anyhow. So that's all right.” [Why? Bloomington, IL 61-0413]

“When polio struck the nation. As we're all commanded now to go get this vaccine to stamp it out. When polio struck... Yesterday I was listening to a doctor as I was driving over the road, some doctor from Louisville. He said, "A few years ago, when the great plague hit Louisville," said, "if men would've stood where I did, and saw fifty-seven respirators at one time, and men, women, boys and girls, paralyzed with a disease called polio, and there was nothing could be done about it..." Said, "I never want to see a thing like that again." But science thought, "If there is such an evil as polio, there surely is something to counteract it." They fought; they stood on the streets with boots, those firemen; they put hats out, and they begged; they bummed; they done everything, trying to find the key to unlock the door to liberty. And finally, one Christian gentlemen by the name of Salk found the vaccine. Why? There was an evil at stake, there was a killer at stake; there was a key somewhere that could unlock freedom again for man, and the Salk vaccine was the great treatment. Oh, what the key can do. The vaccine was brought forth, and now is stamping out the polio with this vaccine, because that it was a never tiring and never give up; that key laid somewhere. There was something would inoculate from it, and they were determined to find it.” [The Key To The Door, Jeffersonville, IN 62-1007]

Bible References: : Jeremiah 8:22; Ezekiel 47:12; Luke 5:31

[Answer provided by Bro. Ken Andes, Minister, Lynden, WA, USA]