"***** A Right Use of the Gifts of Providence Our Creator has bestowed His bounties upon man with a liberal hand. Were all these gifts of Providence wisely and temperately employed, poverty, sickness, and distress would be well-nigh banished from the earth. But alas, we see on every hand the blessings of God changed to a curse by the wickedness of men. GW 385"
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
EGW's statement that God bestows bounties on humanity aligns directly with James 1:17, which states that every good and perfect gift comes from God.
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."
Both passages discuss the idea of God's blessings being misused or not properly acknowledged. EGW speaks of God's gifts being turned into a curse, while Paul speaks of people not glorifying God or being thankful.
"We have a work to do along temperance lines besides that of speaking in public. We must present our principles in pamphlets and in our papers. We must use every possible means of arousing our people to their duty to get into connection with those who know not the truth. The success we have had in missionary work has been fully proportionate to the self-denying, self-sacrificing efforts we have made. The Lord alone knows how much we might have accomplished if as a people we had humbled ourselves before Him and proclaimed the temperance truth in clear, straight lines.... GW 385.1"
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
EGW's statement about the need to actively spread the temperance message and connect with those who don't know the truth directly echoes the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20, which calls for disciples to go and teach all nations.