...These are among the duties taught, leading man, regardless of national or sectional peculiarities, " to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, to bury the dead, and to educate the orphan," or in other words, " to do unto others as we would have others do unto us."...

...curiosity, be at once undeceived. Mutual relief, it is true, is a leading office in our affiliation. To visit the sick, relieve the distressed, to bury the dead and educate the orphan, is the command of our laws, and an imperative duty which Odd-fellowship enjoins. But these, although its...