Heart in Hand

The Heart and Hand

—The command of our law is, that we visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead, and educate the orphan. What our hands find to do in these respects, therefore, we should do cheerfully, with the whole heart; not grudgingly and unwillingly. True friendship goes out with alacrity to the service required of it; and heart and hand should go forth in concert in the cause of suffering humanity; they must not be divided in their energies.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Handbook of the Order, 1876–1878 edition, p. 199.