# “The conversion of Luke Short” by Charles Spurgeon

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“There is an authenticated case of a man being converted by a sermon eighty-five
years after he had heard it preached, Mr. Flavel, at the close of a discourse, instead
of pronouncing the usual benediction, stood up, and said, ‘How can I dismiss you
with a blessing, for many of you are ‘Anathema Maranatha’, because you love not 
the Lord Jesus Christ?’

A lad of fifteen heard that remarkable utterance. And eighty-five years afterwards,
sitting under a hedge, I think in Virginia, the whole scene came vividly before 
him as if it had been but the day before; and it pleased God to bless Mr. Flavel’s
words to his conversion, and he lived three years longer to bear good testimony 
that he had felt the power of the truth in his heart.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, **[_Lectures to My Students: A Selection from Addresses Delivered to the Students of the Pastors’ College, Metropolitan Tabernacle_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851519660?tag=toletaupanre-20)**(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1875/2008), 3:47-48.

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