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(Now Playing I love Christmas by Tommy James)
We take pleasure
in answering thus prominently the communication below,
expressing
at the same time our great gratification
that its faithful author
is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear
Editor---
I am 8 years
old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says,
"If you see it in The Sun, it's so."
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia
O'Hanlon
Virginia, your
little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the
skepticism of a skeptical age.
They do not believe except they
see.
They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible
by their little minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's
or children's, are little.
In this great universe of ours, man is
a mere insect,
an ant, in his intellect as compared with the
boundless world about him,
as measured by the intelligence
capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia,
there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and
generosity and devotion exist,
and you know that they abound and
give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas!
how dreary
would be the world if there were no Santa Claus!
It would be as
dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no childlike
faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this
existence.
We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and
sight.
The external light with which childhood fills the world
would be extinguished.
Not believe in
Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies.
You might
get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas eve
to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see
Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa
Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus.
The most
real things in the world are those that neither children nor men
can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course
not, but that's no proof that they are not there.
Nobody can
conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and
unseeable in the world.
You tear apart
the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
but there
is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man,
nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever
lived could tear apart.
Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can
push aside that curtain and view and picture
the supernal beauty
and glory beyond. Is it all real?
Ah, Virginia, in all this world
there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus!
Thank God! he lives and lives forever.
A thousand years from now,
Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now,
he will continue to
make glad the heart of childhood.
Christmas Midis
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