Show Is There A Santa This brief classic was written by a Frank and appeared in the New York Sun just before Christmas in It has been reprinted thousands of times all over the It is a reply to an actual letter from a little girl of Virginia's Dear I am years Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Papa you sec it in the it's Please tell me the Is there a Santa The Church reply appeared as an editorial There is A Santa your little friends are They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical They do not believe except what they They think that nothing can be which is not by their All whether they be men's or are In this great universe of man is a mere an in his as compared with the boundless world around as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and there is a Santa He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion and you know that they are around and give to your life its highest beauty and how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa It would be as dreary as if there were no There would be no child-like faith no no romance to make tolerable this We should have no except in sense and The eternal light with which childhood fills the world be Not believe in Santa You might as well not in You might get your Papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming would that Nobody sees Santa but that is no sign that there is not a Santa The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can Did you ever see fairies dancing on the Of course but that's no proof they are not Nobody can conceive or imagine all the that are unseen and in the You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men that ever lived could tear Only romance can push aside the curtain and view the picture of the supernatural beauty and glory Santa he lives and he lives A thousand years from ten times years from he will continue to make glad the hearts of little |