[8][9] He opened his inaugural address by saying:[10] "An oath to the Searcher of Hearts, administered by the Guardian of the Commonwealth, adds fear to this solemnity.
It is three centuries since a smaller city than Pittsburgh, secluded among the Alps, on less ambitious waters, received a stranger seeking the retirement of learning.
The principles which preserve the State free, and the Church pure, the one dissevered from the other, leaving each to govern and reform themselves first took their visible forms in the Academy of Geneva.
The Moses' and Hurs, the Aarons and Joshuas, who led forth the colonies were educated in that school of Faith and Freedom.
His funeral was held at his son-in-law's home on Monday, June 6; his body was then transported to New Jersey, where it was interred at the First Presbyterian Churchyard Cemetery in Shrewsbury.