host, united in solid phalanx in the service of Benevolence, may revolutionize the world. If the two hundred thousand Odd-Fellows we boast of in numbers were to go forth Now, and put into practice what they profess-if they would labor with one heart and one mind in the highways and byways of life, how soon might their influence pervade the earth, crushing, withering, annihilating the demons of Avarice, and Lust, and Pride, and raising man to the high and holy estate for which his Maker designed him! Brother, forget not your obligations. Wait not for others, but do your part, though you may be but one rod in the bundle.

CHAPTER III.

UTUAL relief can be afforded by a union of men for the pur pose of aiding each other in the time of distress, danger, or difficulty.

A system of mutual relief cultivates the sympathies and re

lieves the woes of men. That shame of dependence and alms-receiving which tingles in the manly cheek, and pierces with sharp agony the heart, is not the least of the keen pangs of poverty. Often and long will the natural pride of the sufferer lead him to pine and consume in secret, before he will let the world know the fact that the wan cheek and the hollow eye have revealed long before. Yea, at times shame will drive a man even to crime. He will not beg, be the consequences what they may; and the fierceness of hunger preying upon our tempted, frail nature, will nerve to the commision of foul deeds the soul that a short time before would have shrunk with horror from the idea. A system of mutual relief will prevent this crushing misery, and save the victim of it from despair a rime.