in God's good Providence this arrangement was made possible

The work of “St. James’ Home” Mission has gone on as usual, but we think with increased success, three members of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd having charge of it. Since their coming we have had perpetual reason to be thankful that in God’s good Providence this arrangement was made possible. More than eighty white children are receiving through their agency the rudiments of a thorough secular education, and both on Sundays and week-days religious training.

(Source: Rev. Alfred A. Watson, Parochial Report, St. James’, Wilmington, 1882 Journal of Convention, 158)