Bishop Simpson of the Methodist Episcopal Church stated in 1878 "The Law of God should be distinctly set forth...Our congregations should be gathered as around at the base of Mount Sinai. There are many preachers who love to dwell on the Gospel alone, but sometimes they go beyond this and declaim against the preaching ot the Law...that it belongs to a past age. The Law without the Gospel is dark and hopeless; the Gospel without the Law is inefficient and powerless. One leads to servitude, the other to antinomianism. The two combined produce charity (love) out of a pure heart."
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10
Bishop Simpson died on 6/18/1884 while ill in Philedelphia. His last words were "My Saviour".