EP 7.4

When Brace arrived in New York, his original plan was to only tolerate theological studies for a year or so, he states in a letter to Fred Kingsbury on Sept. 30, 1848 “I think I should enjoy studying in New York for a year, but not much more. The novelty must wear away then.” You know, Gods boring, he’d rather be the Western Union of Orphans. Taking an interest in the people of New York as soon as he stepped foot on to Manhattan, and it became his life obsession. In the same letter describing how he takes in every detail of the people he passes walking down Broadway calling it the “perfect flood of humanity.” Finding his ultimate exhilaration in his thoughts of how he can come to help raise the fools out of there “inextricable confusion.”