A. R. Scherling (1898–1972)

A. R. Scherling, the affirmative speaker, with his conservative Baptist background, could perhaps best be described as a non-conformist. At present he holds membership in a congregational church at Los Angeles, California.

Ordained into the ministry in 1933, he has been actively engaged in Christian work independently, by means of literature distribution, Evangelism and radio broadcasting.

After coming into contact with the published works of Charles G. Finney, of Oberlin College, Mr. Scherling became interested in the science of moral philosophy, which he has persued diligently for the past twenty-five years, accumulating a library of rare books, by authors dealing specifically with the subject under discussion in this volume. He is the author of "The Dogma of a Sinful Constitution and its Practical Bearing" 240 pages cloth bound, "Supremacy of Conscience," "Sound Speech" and other smaller pamphlets.

His public debates have taken him into Canada and several of the States. He has traveled extensively. Besides the United States and Canada, he has toured Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land.

At the time of this debate he resided in Los Angeles, California, where he gives his full time to writing, and further study and research in the field of moral philosophy.