"When I went to Colorado I was so burdened for you that, in my weakness, I wrote many pages to be read at your camp meeting. Weak and trembling, I arose at three o'clock in the morning to write to you. God was speaking through clay. You might say that this communication was only a letter. Yes, it was a letter, but prompted by the Spirit of God, to bring before your minds things that had been shown me. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision— the precious rays of light shining from the throne. 5T 67.2"
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
The EGW passage directly echoes the idea that holy individuals speak as moved by the Holy Spirit, claiming her writings are prompted by God's Spirit and visions.