Introduction

Biography

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 quite a re­pu­ta­tion as 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.