Holy Spirit, anointed to be a preacher of the gospel, and made a distinguished instrument by whom that gospel should pervade the world. We shall not perhaps find very much of Mr. Knill on the records of history, any more than we hear much of Ananias in Damascus in the period of church history in which the apostles lived; but Mr. Knill’s prayer over that little boy in the arbour, like Ananias’s uplifted hands on the head of the converted Saul, inseparably links him with the glory of Spurgeon’s future,