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One of the most famous newspaper
editorials of • all time has to do with
Christmas. It appeared September 21, 1897
in the pages of a .leading newspaper of the
day, the New York Sun.
Virginia O'Hanlon, eight years old, was
torn between the doubts placed in her mind
by playmates and her own sincere belief
that each Christmas a jolly old man came to
help spread joy through the world. To settle
the matter, she posed the question to the
editor of the Sun.
Francis Phareellus Church replied as
follows:
"Is there a Santa Claus?
"We take pleasure in answering at once
and 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 eight 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, 115 West 95th Street.
"Virginia, your little Jriends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism
of a skeptical age. They do not believe ex-
cept what 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 beau-
ty 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 their
existence. We should have no enjoyment,
except in sense and sight. The eternal light
with which childhood fills theworld 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. 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, not 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 supernatural beau-
ty and 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 heart
of childhood." •
`The.. Holy Night'
BY ELIZABETH
BARRETT BROWNING
We sat among the. stalls at Bethlehem;
The dumb kine from
Their fodder turning thein,
Softened their•horned faces
To almost ,human gazes
Toward the newly Born:
The simple shepherds
from the star -lit brooks
Brought visionary looks
As yet in their
astonied 'hearing, rung.
The strange sweet angel -tongue:
The magi of the East,
• in sandals worn,
Xne1t reverent, sweeping around,
With long pale, beards,
their gifts upon the ground
The incense, myrrh, and gold
These baby hands.
were impotent to hold:.
So let all earthlies
and celestials wait
Upon thy royal state.
Sleep; sleep, my kingly One !
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