Simon the Cyrenian

We read in Luke, that as Jesus moved the cross upon which he was to be offered, he sank benerath his burden, faint and exhausted; and in all that vast crownd, the man selected to bear the cross for him was Simon the Cyreinan. Now Cyrene was a town in the North of Africa, and Simon was therefore an African, and Simon was therefore an African, a black man. They cross of our redemption, the aitar upon which the bloody sacrifice was made, was carried to its appointed place by negro. In the hour of Christ’s physical need, when his earthly strength left him, the man who stepped into his relief was a black man. And shall Christians be indifferent to these people, one of whom was not indifferent to the sufferings of his and their divine master.