This manuscript has been carefully reviewed by the committee [Harrison Ray Anderson, Chairman; Samuel M. Gibson; A. Edwin Keigwin; David D. Burrell; J. Harry Cotton], approved by it and by the Board of Christian Education. The outcome of these labors, in this volume, is presented to the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America for voluntary use in the churches as "A Manual of Faith and Life," a companion volume to "The Hymnal" (1933) and "The Book of Common Worship," Revised. It is the intention of the Board of Christian Education to prepare "A Teacher's Guide," designed to help pastors and other teachers in the use of the manual as a source book in teaching communicant's classes of Juniors and Intermediates. This volume is presented to the Church with the prayer that it may be useful in bringing into the Church many who will fulfill the counsel of the apostle: "Sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear: having a good conscience." - Foreword.