Is There A Santa Clause? – The Oklahoma Post

Lawton, Ok December, 25 (The Oklahoma Post)-

DEAR EDITOR: I’m 8 years previous.

Some of my little mates say there isn’t a Santa Claus.

Papa says, “If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.”

Please inform me the reality; is there a Santa Claus?

— Virginia O’Hanlon, 115 West ninety fifth St. New York

Virginia, your little mates are unsuitable. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They don’t consider besides they see. They assume that nothing could be which isn’t understandable by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether or not they be males’s or kids’s, are little. In this nice universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his mind, as in contrast with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence able to greedy the entire of fact and information.

Yes, Virginia, there’s a Santa Claus. He exists as definitely as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you recognize that they abound and provides to your life its highest magnificence and pleasure. Alas! How dreary could be the world if there have been no Santa Claus. It could be as dreary as if there have been no Virginias. There could be no childlike religion then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We shouldn’t have any enjoyment, besides in sense and sight. The everlasting mild with which childhood fills the world could be extinguished.

Not consider in Santa Claus! You would possibly as effectively not consider in fairies! You would possibly get your papa to rent males to look at in all of the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, however even when they didn’t see Santa Claus coming down, what would that show? Nobody sees Santa Claus, however that’s no signal that there isn’t a Santa Claus. The most actual issues on this planet are people who neither kids nor males can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the garden? Of course not, however that’s no proof that they aren’t there. Nobody can conceive or think about all of the wonders there are unseen and unseeable on this planet.

You might tear aside the newborn’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, however there’s a veil overlaying the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united power of all of the strongest males that ever lived, may tear aside. Only religion, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push apart that curtain and consider and movie the supernal magnificence and glory past. Is all of it actual? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there’s nothing else actual and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives, and he lives without end. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten occasions ten thousand years from now, he’ll proceed to make glad the guts of childhood.

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Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the fast response was printed as an unsigned editorial on Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since turn out to be historical past’s most reprinted newspaper editorial