An acquaintance with Samuel Annesley led Brand to decide to join the ministry.
He entered the family of the Lady Dowager Roberts of Glassenbury, Kent, the education of whose four children he superintended.
He soon preached twice every Sunday, and frequently a third time in the evening, at a place two miles distant.
He and his friends sold bibles under cost price to all who desired them, provided they did not sell them again.
Jabez Earle, minister of the presbyterian congregation in Hanover Street, London, was one of his protégés.