Merry christmas everyone. . . if you still beleive do post this, it's from The Sun a newspaper back in 1909:
Dear Editor:
I am eight years old, and 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
The editor of the paper at the time would post at times remarks that would upset the readers, but this time Mister Francis Church replied immediatly in the editors column as thus so:
Virginia your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not beleive, except what they see. . .
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know how they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary the world would be if there was no Santa Claus . . . . You might get your Papa to higher men to watch 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. . .
No santa CLaus? Thank God, he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from no, Virginia, nay, ten tims ten thousand years from now, he will continue make glad the heart of child-hood.
I beleive in Santa Claus, do you? If you do. . then simply reply. . with the two words. .. I Beleive
Dear Editor:
I am eight years old, and 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
The editor of the paper at the time would post at times remarks that would upset the readers, but this time Mister Francis Church replied immediatly in the editors column as thus so:
Virginia your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not beleive, except what they see. . .
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know how they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary the world would be if there was no Santa Claus . . . . You might get your Papa to higher men to watch 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. . .
No santa CLaus? Thank God, he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from no, Virginia, nay, ten tims ten thousand years from now, he will continue make glad the heart of child-hood.
I beleive in Santa Claus, do you? If you do. . then simply reply. . with the two words. .. I Beleive
