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Leading Homily.

SIMON THE CYRENIAN.

AND THEY COMPEL ONE SIMON A CYRENIAN, WHO PASSED BY, COMING OUT OF THE COUNTRY, THE FATHER OF ALEXANDER AND RUFUS, TO BEAR HIS CROSS."-Mark xv. 21.

HIS must have been a somewhat startling experience,

and by no means a pleasant one either, for Simon the Cyrenian.

Here was a man "coming out of the country," intent, no doubt, on some small business or purchase in the city, and suddenly he is pounced upon and forced to carry the cross of Jesus Christ.

It would seem that Simon must have met the tragic procession somewhere near the city gates, and it would also seem that Jesus had given such signs of feebleness and exhaustion as to make some help absolutely necessary in bearing the burden of His cross.1

But the question at once presents itself, by what right, from what cause, did they seize on this stray traveller and force him

1 Of the two hypotheses, that either (1) the pieces of the cross were not connected until after arrival at the place of crucifixion, and, therefore, Christ may have borne the transverse, while Simon followed with the upright part; or, (2) the cross being already united, Christ took the head, and, therefore, the heavier, while Simon followed with the other; the latter is preferred. Compare John xix. 17. with Luke xxiii. 26. See further on.