"May 2 we met a large congregation at the house of worship at Monterey. My husband spoke with clearness and force upon the parable of the lost sheep. The word was greatly blessed to the people. Some who had strayed were out of the church, and there was no spirit of labor to help them. In fact, the stiff, stern, unfeeling position of some in the church was calculated to prevent their return, should they be disposed thus to do. The subject touched the hearts of all, and all manifested a desire to get right. On first day we spoke three times in Allegan to good congregations. LS 188.3"
"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?"
The EGW passage explicitly mentions her husband speaking on the parable of the lost sheep and directly relates it to the situation in the church. This is a clear and direct reference to Luke 15:4.
"How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?"
The EGW passage explicitly mentions her husband speaking on the parable of the lost sheep and directly relates it to the situation in the church. This is a clear and direct reference to Matthew 18:12.