Shurtleff grad­u­at­ed from An­dover The­ological Sem­i­nary and was or­dained a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter. He served in Buen­a­ven­tura, Cal­i­for­nia; Ply­mouth, Mass­a­chu­setts; and Min­ne­ap­o­lis, Min­ne­so­ta. He spent the last part of his ca­reer in Eu­rope, found­ing the Amer­i­can Church in Frank­furt am Main, Ger­ma­ny, in 1895, and work­ing at the Acad­emy Vit­ti in Par­is, France. His works in­clude:

• Po­ems, 1883
• New Year’s Peace, 1885
• Songs of Hope, 1886
• Shadow of the Angel, 1886

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1. Lead on, O King Eternal