Reverend John Postlethwaite (1828-1886) was a clergyman in the Church of England, founder of a convalescent home, and a well-known philanthropist. He was also an ardent opponent of vaccination, being aware of its role in countless murders.
William Tebb, in Compulsory Vaccination in England (1884), says this about Postlethwaite:
The Rev. JOHN POSTLETHWAITE, of Ulverston, a clergyman of the Church of England, a well-known philanthropist, and the founder of a convalescent home at Redcar, Yorkshire, told me that, as his work was chiefly with the poor, it was his custom to travel in third-class carriages, in order that he might learn more of the people. He frequently introduced the subject of Vaccination to them, and he assured me that in nearly every case some details concerning its evil and fatal consequences were related to him by his fellow travellers.
William Tebb, Compulsory Vaccination in England: With Incidental References to Foreign States (London: E.W. Allen, 1884), 6.
The following was written by Rev. Postlethwaite in opposition to vaccine mandates in 1876 at a Meeting of the Ulverston Board of Guardians. Vaccination was a deadly equivalent to the bite of a cobra, and opposed to God’s law:
My special work in life has been the founding and conducting of hospitals for the sick poor, and during many years I and my co-workers have been fully convinced of the many painful results to children from vaccination. I had my eldest girl vaccinated that I might ‘ obey the law,’ though at the time feeling great compunction at doing so. That child almost died in consequence of the operation, and only recovered through very prompt measures, by the blessing of God—measures which might not have been taken by one not fully alive to the evils of vaccination. Since then I have denounced vaccination, and will do so. The law of the land is doubtlesss this,—a father must either incur all the risks of evil (blood-poisoning, and the introduction of the vilest diseases) to his children by vaccination, or pay a fine as often as the Guardians may wish to inflict it, or go to prison. After the terrible results I have seen from vaccination, I should as soon think of bringing my child to the fangs of a cobra, as risking the poison of vaccination. As to paying fines, I have stedfastly resolved to make no such compromise with a human law so much at variance with a divine law ; but I shall be quite-ready, as soon as I return to your Union district, to go to prison, if your Guardians think it will tend to the benefit of the community to take this step.
Reprinted from the “Ulverston Advertiser,” September 21, 1876. Vaccination Tracts (Snow & Farnham, 1892), 11, 12.
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Thank you for researching and publishing such a great testimony. It reminded me of the verse,
“But all cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars— their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8.)
Thanks Renelle. It is encouraging seeing testimonies of Christians speaking out throughout vaccine history.
I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of those behind vaccine genocide on Judgement Day …