With penitence, with fasting made, and prayer, to clash.
A second taught that fasting did no good at all;
That charity, beneficence, was all in all.
A third explained: “Thy fasting,—charity itself,—
Syntheism[102] is. With God, thou deifiest thyself.
To trust with resignation’s all religion’s plan.
In weal and woe are springs to trap the soul of man.”155
A fourth declared: “Faith without works is truly dead.
Alone is service valued; faith’s a sin to dread.”
A fifth laid down: “The Law’s commands and warnings all