reply" We are delighted and immediately on the outstanding in their own way message below and press the same time our great gratification that its conscientious author is one of the Friends of the Sun:
"Dear Editor:. I am 8 years old" Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus . are "Papa says, 'If you see it in the Sun, it is so.Bitte tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?" Virginia O'Hanlon "115 West 59 Street
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. . They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They think nothing they do not see. you think that there may be nothing for her little mind is not tangible. Any thoughts, Virginia, whether they be men or children are small. In this great universe is our man of intellect, a mere insect, an ant, compared with the boundless world about him measured at the intelligence of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge able. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. It exists there as certainly as love and generosity and devotion, 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 no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood met the world would be ausgelöscht.Nicht believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to keep watch on Christmas Eve in all the chimneys to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is not a sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see adults. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's not proof that they are not there. No one can understand the wonders of the unseen and invisible world, or imagine. You can tear apart the baby's rattle and see what the noise is generated, but is the invisible world covered by a veil that could not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men of all time, to tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in the whole world is nothing else real and abiding. Santa Claus! Thank God!, He lives and he lives forever. A thousand years, Virginia, no, nor ten times ten thousand years he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. "
MERRY CHRISTMAS and wish a happy new year to you and you" ISDT "
