"Sabbath morning it commenced snowing; but not one meeting was suspended. About an inch of snow fell, and the air was piercing cold. Women with little children clustered about the stoves. It was touching to see one hundred and fifty people assembled for a convocation meeting under these circumstances. Some had come two hundred miles by private conveyance. All seemed hungry for the bread of life, and thirsty for the water of salvation. LS 239.2"
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
The EGW passage describes people braving harsh weather to attend a meeting, expressing their spiritual hunger and thirst. This directly echoes the sentiment in Matthew 5:6, which speaks of those who hunger and thirst after righteousness being blessed and filled.
"Elder Haskell spoke Friday afternoon and evening. Sabbath morning I spoke encouraging words to those who had made so great an effort to attend the meeting. I told them that the more inclement the weather, the greater the necessity of our obtaining the sunshine of God's presence. This life at best is but the Christian's winter; and the bleak winds of winter—disappointments, losses, pain, and anguish—are our lot here; but our hopes are reaching forward to the Christian's summer, when we shall change climate, leave all the wintry blasts and fierce tempests behind, and be taken to those mansions Jesus has gone to prepare for those that love Him. LS 239.3"
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Both passages contrast present suffering with future glory. The EGW passage uses the metaphor of winter and summer to represent earthly trials and heavenly reward, while Romans 8:18 speaks of the incomparability of present sufferings with future glory. The underlying theme of enduring present hardship for a future reward is present in both.