"In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more, they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principal object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance—a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority. It is the spirit of the papacy—the spirit of conformity to worldly customs, the veneration for human traditions above the commandments of God—that is permeating the Protestant churches and leading them on to do the same work of Sunday exaltation which the papacy has done before them. GC 573.1"
"And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."
The EGW passage draws a parallel between the actions of Protestants in the United States and the papacy, suggesting a restoration of papal influence. This aligns with the imagery in Revelation 13:12, where the second beast exercises the power of the first, whose deadly wound was healed.
"If the reader would understand the agencies to be employed in the soon-coming contest, he has but to trace the record of the means which Rome employed for the same object in ages past. If he would know how papists and Protestants united will deal with those who reject their dogmas, let him see the spirit which Rome manifested toward the Sabbath and its defenders. GC 573.2"
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."
Both passages refer to a time of great tribulation. EGW connects this to the methods Rome used in the past, suggesting a similar tribulation will occur in the future. While not a direct quote, the connection is a thematic parallel.