One hundred and twelve
years ago, in the fall of 1897,
an eight-year-old girl wrote a
letter to the editor of the New
York Sun newspaper. Some of
her friends had told her, “There
is no Santa Claus.” She asked
of the Sun editor, “Please tell
me the truth. Is there a Santa
Clause?” That letter and the
published response of Editor
Frances P. Church are a worthy
part of the holiday tradition we
call Christmas.
More than a century
after those words were written,
the world has changed
physically, beyond the wildest
imaginations of that time: We
travel further in an hour than
you could travel in a week in
those days; we’ve endured two
World Wars and countless lesser
wars; more new knowledge is
developed every week, now,
than existed altogether then;
we’ve gone to the moon, and
look beyond— but Church’s
words are every bit as true,
and as valuable, today as when
written.
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