At age 21, Schurman went to work at the Brack­ett Shoe Com­pa­ny, Wake­field, Mass­a­chu­setts. He came to Christ on Feb­ru­a­ry 17, 1894, at a re­vival meet­ing led by evan­gel­ist Joe We­ber. Feel­ing the call to spread the Gos­pel, Schur­man soon had a re­pu­ta­tion as quite a preach­er. The shoe fac­to­ry trans­ferred Schur­man to Na­shua, New Hamp­shire, where he met and mar­ried Grace Walk­er in 1897. He lat­er be­came a full time Pen­te­cost­al pas­tor in Lynn, Mass­a­chu­setts, and at­tend­ed the 1907 meet­ing in Chi­ca­go, Ill­i­nois, where the Pen­tecos­tals joined in­to the Church of the Na­za­rene. Short­ly ther­ea­fter, Schur­man be­came pas­tor of the Na­za­rene Church in Ha­ver­hill, Mass­a­chu­setts, and, in 1915, he moved to Oliv­et, Il­li­nois, to be­come the Na­za­rene Su­per­in­tend­ent for Il­li­nois and Wis­con­sin. In Sep­tem­ber, 1917, he be­came pas­tor of the First Church of the Na­za­rene in Chi­ca­go. Schur­man al­so served as pre­si­dent of Chi­ca­go’s Eng­le­wood Min­is­ter­i­al As­so­ci­a­tion. In his day he was one of the fore­most preach­ers and out­stand­ing cler­gy­men of the Chicago Cen­tral Dis­trict.

Hymns

1. I Believe the Bi­ble