The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was organized May 3, 1861. This was the first of the various legal organizations formed by this people. The formation of such corporation was point number three in establishing, in God’s opening providence, the “order and system” of managing the work of the third angel’s message. All can now see the necessity for such corporations, and may wonder that it was not always seen by us. But let none loose the practical lesson contained in this case. While we should most earnestly seek the Lord for divine guidance, we must remember that as he works in us as his instruments, we too have a work to do. We are not to expect him to do what he has left for us to do and what he “works in us to do.” COOD 113.2