Publisher's Note

      This book was produced by optically scanning the original publication by the same title. In addition to the correction of typographical errors and the modification of one verb tense to convey the meaning clearly intended by the author, we have made formatting changes in such things as page layout and block quotations. We have also included as the author's preface, the text which appeared on the back of the dust jacket of the original publication.

      Sometime after optically scanning the original text, we invited Matthew "Matt" Hagan, an honors graduate of Walton Senior High School in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, to read the typescript orally with us as a means of encouraging his faith and, in the process, detecting scanning errors in the text. He was to enter Florida State University in the Fall of 1991 with a full academic scholarship and we were concerned that he be prepared for that environment. Shortly after completing his first year at FSU, and prior to completing our reading of this book, his life was ended abruptly as the result of a swimming accident. One of the last college essays he wrote was in defense of  his faith.  It is to his memory that this Signal Hill Edition of Simple Trusting Faith is dedicated.

      In occasional correspondence with Carl Ketcherside, as in our last telephone conversation, in the fall of 1988, in which we informed him that several of his works had been produced in electronic form on CD-ROM, he expressed the desire that his writings enjoy unrestricted replication and distribution to all who would read them. In keeping with that desire, the electronic database used to create this book is available to anyone wishing to use it in the further dissemination of its contents.

--Bob D. Lewis, Managing Editor