"You all need the converting power of God. You need to seek Him for yourselves. For your soul's sake neglect this work no longer. All your trouble grows out of your separation from God. Your disunion and dissension are the fruit of an unchristian character. 5T 51.1"
"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;"
The call to seek God and the need for conversion directly echoes the call to repentance and conversion found in Acts 3:19.
"I had thought to remain silent and let you go on until you should see and abhor the sinfulness of your course; but backsliding from God produces hardness of heart and blindness of mind, and there is less and less perception of the true condition, until the grace of God is finally withdrawn, as from the Jewish nation. 5T 51.2"
"Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers."
The description of backsliding leading to hardness of heart and eventual rejection by God is similar to the warnings given to Israel in Jeremiah 7:26.
"I wish my position to be clearly understood. I have no sympathy with the course that has been pursued toward Brother -----. The enemy has encouraged feelings of hatred in the hearts of many. The errors committed by him have been reported from one person to another, constantly growing in magnitude, as busy, gossiping tongues added fuel to the fire. Parents who have never felt the care which they should feel for the souls of their children, and who have never given them proper restraint and instruction, are the very ones who manifest the most bitter opposition when their children are restrained, reproved, or corrected at school. Some of these children are a disgrace to the church and a disgrace to the name of Adventists. 5T 51.3"
"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."
The description of hatred being stirred up and errors being magnified through gossip aligns with the principle that love covers all sins, while hatred stirs up strife.
"The parents despised reproof themselves, and despised the reproof given to their children, and were not careful to conceal this from them. The sin of the parents began with their mismanagement at home. The souls of some of these children will be lost because they did not receive instruction from God's word and did not become Christians at home. Instead of sympathizing with their children in a perverse course, the parents should have reproved them and sustained the faithful teacher. These parents were not united to Christ themselves, and this is the reason of their terrible neglect of duty. That which they have sown they will also reap. They are sure of a harvest. 5T 51.4"
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
The EGW passage directly addresses the principle of parental responsibility in training children, echoing the sentiment of Proverbs 22:6 about the lasting impact of early training.