(A Christmas Carol)
wrote over 100 years ago, the eight year old Virginia O'Hanlon from New York to the daily newspaper 'The Sun' the following letter:
I am eight years old. Some of my friends say, there is no Santa Claus. Papa says what is in the "Sun", is always true. Please, tell me: Is there a Santa Claus?
The matter was the chief editor Francis P. Church so important that he answered himself, on the front page of The Sun newspaper:
Dear Virginia, your little friends can not be right. You only believe what they see. They believe that it can not give what she and her little mind is not able to grasp. All minds is small, whether he is an adult or a child. In space, it disappears like a tiny insect. An ant, intellect is not sufficient to capture the whole
truth and knowledge. Yes, Viriginia, there is a
Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion. Because it all is, can our life be beautiful and serene. How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It then would be no Virginia, no faith, no poetry, nothing that made life bearable. Enjoyment, except in sense and sight would be left. But the light of childhood,
the world broadcasting would be extinguished.
There is a Santa Claus.
You might as well not believe in fairy tales. Certainly, you might get your papa to hire him to people on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus. And none of them in Santa Claus would get to face - what would that prove? No man sees him like that. This proves nothing. The most important things remain mostly invisible. The
see fairies dancing on the lawn when. Nevertheless, they exist.
to imagine all the wonders, let alone see it, that can not be the smartest in the world. What do you see it. You never see everything. You can leave a kaleidoscope and look for the beautiful color figures.
you will find some colorful pieces, nothing more. Why? Because there is a veil covering the unseen world, a veil, not even any violence could tear apart the world. Only faith, poetry and love it can ventilate. Then the beauty and glory beyond will be to recognize at once. "Is it true?" You can ask.
Virginia, not all over the world is stable. The Santa Claus lives and he will live forever. Nay, ten times ten thousand years he will be there to meet children like you and every heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas, Virginia. Your
Francis P. Church
The correspondence between Virginia O'Hanlon and Francis P. Church dates from 1897. He has published more than half a century to the setting of the "Sun" in 1950 every year at Christmas time on the front page.
(Source http://www.simsforum.de/vbulletin/off-topic/35476-weihnachtsgeschichte-der-sun-der-brief-der-kleinen-virginia.html )
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