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VOL. VIII—No. 31
VOUM AOVIRTMIHINT IN TNI iOUMAk N A
iMvurracaiT
CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939
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1897. but, Virpoio
O'Hanlon mrota tk, following
bum to ika mbtor of tka tfm
York Sum'91 mm 8 yaora oU.
Soma of my but, frinJi my
Ikm, m no Santa dona. Papa
oaya, 'If yon am it in Tka Sun
8’, ao.' Pltaat tall ma tka trut k
— ia ikon o Santo Clou,7“
Tka aJitor mk o naaaapopar
onJ htarary daaaia in rapljtotkia
(klUiakpLo-IlianprintaJkom
“Yes, indeed!
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“Virginia, your littRCfr^ends
are wrong. Theyx have been
affected by the skepticism of a^J
skeptical age—they do not
believe except 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
are little.
diildren’s,
“In this great universe of ours,
man is a mere insect, an ant, in. j
his intellect, as compared with
thejboundless world about him, #l
by the intelligence
capable of grasping the whole ^2
of truth and knoWled
“Yes, Virgima^ther*
I Santa Claus.
s
“He exists as certainly as lovb
and generosity and devotion
exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its
highest beauty 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 poe
, no romance to make toler
stable this existence. We should
• nave no enjoyment, except in
sense and sight The eternal light
with which chjldhood fills the
world would Jbe. extinguished.
“Not bell
You might as well
in fairies!
“You might get your papa to
hire men to watch in all the chim
neys on Christmas Eve to catch
Santa Claus, but even if they did
not sde Santa Claus coming
down, what would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus, but
that isl no sign that there is no
Santa4 Claus—the most real
things m the world are those nei
ther children nor men can see.
“Did you ever see fairies
dancing on die lawn? Of coarse
& not, but that’s no proof that they
^ are not there—nobody can con*
ceive op imagine all the wonders
that are unseen andAinseeable
in the world. /
' "You tear apart the baby’s rat
tle and see what makes the noise
I •
£ inside, but there is a veil covering
the unseen world which not the
strongest man, or 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 cur*
tain and view and picture the su
pernal beauty and glory beyond.
Is it all real?—ah, Virginia,
in all this world there is nothing
else real and abi<rfj^
~ .. vvr
“No Santa Claus KHpfiilk God!
. —he lives, and he lives forever—
.A a thousand years from now,Vir*
ipginia, nay, ten thousand years
from now, he will continue to
make glad the heart of childhood?