The New York Herald

JERSEY CITY CHURCHES.

ST. MARK'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

A Wholesome Lesson for All—Mammon Worship Condemned.

The quiet little Protestant Episcopal church known as St. Mark's, at the corner of Montgomery and Grove streets, Jersey City, contained a small but respectable congregation yesterday. It was in this church that the Rev. O. B. Frothingham held forth to his flock years ago, long before the doctrine of 'affinities' was promulgated. The simple and good-natured folks of that day would have been scandalized, if not horrified, at an exegesis of the married relation which has since become a specialty with their erratic pastor in his new sphere. The present pastor is the Rev. Mr. Macuray, a tall, venerable gentleman, with whom the ministry is a labor of love. His text on this occasion was from Peter's epistle, 'Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.' The text does not imply that we must sit with folded arms and be totally indifferent to the future, depending on God to provide for us without any exertion on our part. The early disciples were subjected to trials from which we of this age are happily exempt. But there are troubles, tribulations, disappointments and temptations which continually beset us. There are creatures which God supports by a special dispensation, because He has not given them the ability to work. THE LILIES OF THE FIELD grow, the birds of the air are fed, yet they do not spin nor sow, neither do they read. If we are to make ourselves ever anxious about the future, and always anticipate the worst, we shall be always miserable. The evils apprehended may never come, so that we add imaginary troubles to those that already surround us. Some ills may be staved off by a timely endeavor. TWO KINDS OF EVILS. Our failing health may be recovered by timely relaxation. But there are evils which are unavoidable. No prudence or foresight can prevent them. But if we are true disciples we can rejoice in tribulations which cause the power of Christ to rest upon the soul. The man who casts his care on God will in sickness recognize the chastening hand of God preparing him by that stroke for an eternal inheritance FORTITUDE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS. The patience and fortitude of the early disciples of Christ should be a lesson to us. They welcomed death itself, and, in the midst of their misfortunes, they lifted up their voice in thanksgiving to God. They were men of like passions with ourselves, but the grace of God was with them.