We have gratifying evidence from many of the clergy that the movement thus developed has kept at home young people who would otherwise have fled from the continued hardship and intellectual emptiness of rural life at home.
These results are in no small measure due to the zeal and devotion of the governing body and staff of the I.A.O.S.

The general policy of the society is guided by a committee of twenty-four members, one-half of whom are elected by the individual subscribers and the other half by the affiliated societies.

It is representative in the best sense and influential accordingly.

The success of the Committee is no doubt mainly due to the wisdom which they have displayed in the selection of the staff.

In the most important post, that of Secretary, they have kept on my chief fellow-worker in the early struggle, Mr.R.A.Anderson, who has devoted himself to the cause with all the energy of a nature at once enthusiastic, unselfish, and practical, and who has succeeded in inspiring his staff of organisers and experts with his own spirit.