"This problem was spread before the delegates assembled at the 1903 General Conference. The brethren were urged to express freely their convictions as to the proper course to pursue. While they had the matter under advisement, Mrs. White, who was in attendance as one of the delegates, bore a decided testimony in favor of adopting a policy that would result in a widespread dissemination of the truths of the third angel's message. She called attention to oft repeated counsels to establish centers of influence at strategic points, and to arrange for a wise distribution of the working forces, rather than to follow plans tending toward centralization. The stakes were to be strengthened, but only that the cords might be lengthened. From established centers the influence of present truth was to be extended into all the world. Mrs. White said, in part: LS 388.2"
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"
Both passages emphasize the importance of spreading the message to all nations. Matthew 28:19 is the Great Commission, and the EGW passage speaks of disseminating the truths of the third angel's message and extending influence from established centers into all the world.
"“Will those who have collected in Battle Creek hear the Voice speaking to them, and understand that they are to scatter out into different places, where they can spread abroad a knowledge of the truth, and where they can gain an experience different from the experience that they have been gaining? LS 388.3"
"Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word."
Both passages discuss the scattering of believers to spread their message. The EGW quote specifically mentions scattering to spread knowledge of truth, echoing the Acts passage about preaching the word.