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RICH SIGNAL,STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25,1969
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"Yes, indeed!
"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected
by the skepticism of a skeptical age they do not believe except what.
they see — they think .that nothing can be which is not comprehensiblet,
to 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 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 an 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 tol-
erable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and
sight. The eternal 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 they 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 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 imkgine
all the wonders that 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, or even the united strength of all the strongest men, that
ever lived, could tear apart: Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance,
can push aside the curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty
of all glory beyond.
"Is it all real?— ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else
more real and abiding.
"No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever —
a thousand years, from now, Virginia, nay, ten thousand years from
now, he will. continue to make glad the hearts of childhood."
—4Francis B. Church
The New York Sun
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