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THE late Goldwin Smith, Professor of history at Oxford, Cornell and Toronto Universities, was the most internationally minded Canadian whom I have known. He taught that the end and key of the study of history was the demonstration of the development of moral character by individual effort and service; and therefore this "Service Club" should be stimulated by an address upon the history of the Niagara Frontier. Solomon, the wisest of men, said, 'There is nothing new under the sun; that which has been, shall be;" and his father, the warrior-poet David, asks in one of his Psalms, "How shall a young man guide his way?" and answers by saying, "By taking heed thereto according to thy Word," which was then comprised in the first five historical books of the Old Testament. All mankind were given five senses by their Creator, with which to perceive; but it does not follow that every man having five senses is a man of "good sense." Each man was similarly endowed with a sixth sense, ability to think; and only as men choose to exercise this sixth sense can there be any progress in the World. Each succeeding generation, because of its inexperience and immature thinking, has to learn for itself the errors of its ways, the terrors of war, and the follies which lead to periods of depression. All that any generation may do for the next is so to associate times and places with men and events that the following generation may be reminded how similar situations have been met, difficulties overcome, obstacles removed, panics averted or victories won. An event may seem insignificant, but its results may be so fraught with good or evil that the event itself may become of historic importance. History is always linked to some event which has affected the progress of humanity or to some great accomplishment in the advance of civilization. The signing of the Declaration of Independence was such an event. The men who signed it became historic characters, their memory is revered, and they serve as examples to future generations. The time and the place of signing were relatively unimportant; it might as well have occurred on the third of July in New York City as on the "Ever Glorious Fourth" at Philadelphia. Such events constitute History; but men make history by causing or controlling events. Photo: The restored "Castle" at Fort Niagara with flags of United States, France, and Great Britain