If a sinner came and got—went out tonight, and said, “Well, I got saved.”…?…what they…You look just like you always did. You’re the same person. Well, if you say, “Well, maybe I didn’t get it. Maybe I just thought I did.” You’ll go right straight back to your sin again like a hog to its wallow and a dog to its vomit. That’s right. But as long as you’re willing to… Could you imagine taking a hog from its wallow…You could take a hog out here, and bring this hog in, and scrub it up with sal-soda, or whatever you wanted to, do that painting on her toe nails, like women do on their fingers, and fixed up with—with—with clothes on, and put it on a hardwood floor, and give it grape-nuts for breakfast, and that hog would die. You take him and turn him loose, although scoured up, he would go just as straight to the wallow and…wallow again as he could get to it. Why? Why? He’s a pig. As long as that hog nature in there, he’ll still be a hog. But you put a lamb out there, in that wallow, he’ll bleat and cry until somebody gets him out of there. Now if you want to keep a hog out of the wallow, is change the nature of the hog. That’s the way to keep the sinner out of the things of the world, change the nature from a sinner to a Christian. And that can only be done through that great powerful work. I’ve seen prostitutes changed. [Double recording. Blank spot on tape—Ed.]

Faith without Works Is Dead, 1950-08-22, Cleveland, OH, §31