"“It would necessarily follow that in starting a school of that kind, in a field where the constituency was small, and where the people had been passing through serious difficulty financially, there would be a large indebtedness of about $23,000 on the school. It was about this time that the plan of selling the book ‘Christ's Object Lessons’ was launched, and our brethren in that country took hold of this work with an earnest purpose to carry out the instruction regarding it. As a result of their efforts, up to the present time, something over $20,000 has been received from the sale of ‘Christ's Object Lessons’ for the school. The indebtedness being $23,000 when we started, practically all the original indebtedness has been liquidated by the sale of ‘Christ's Object Lessons.’... LS 377.1"
"And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common."
Both passages describe a community working together to support a common cause. In Acts 4:32, believers share their possessions to meet the needs of the community. In the EGW passage, the brethren sell 'Christ's Object Lessons' to pay off the school's debt. The thematic parallel lies in the idea of collective effort and generosity to support a shared goal.
“When we began our work at this school, eight years ago, the students were earning about $2,000 a year in the industrial work; that is, they were working sufficient to receive a credit of $2,000 a year. That work has steadily grown from that day to this, until, when our last statement was drawn, September 30, 1908, it was shown that the students, during the preceding year, had earned $20,000 on their education.” [Note.—At the 1913 General Conference, Professor Machlan reported continued prosperity in the industrial departments at Avondale. “The industrial feature of the college,” he declared, “is a most interesting as well as a most valuable one. Last year fifty-five per cent of the students paid their entire expenses in labor, thirty-five per cent paid one half their school fees, while only ten per cent were full-paying students.”] (Church and Sabbath School Bulletin, 1913, 154.)] ... Since the inauguration of the ‘Christ's Object Lessons’ work, we have never called for a penny of don…
"He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich."
The EGW passage describes the growth of the students' earnings through industrial work at the Avondale school. Proverbs 10:4 contrasts the poverty of the slack hand with the wealth produced by diligence. Both passages connect diligence and hard work with prosperity and financial gain.