What if Christmas Disappears? By Jack L. Key

I’ve been reading the greetings written on the colorful Christmas cards that I receive each year from family and friends.  And as has been my custom for many years, I read and reread the beautiful old reply “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus” written by the editor of the New York Sun, Frances Pharcellus Church, to Virginia O’Hanlon, age 8, and published in 1897.

My grandmother gave me my copy many years ago when I was a child, and since she was born in 1876, she had read the original letter and reply reprinted in the local paper.  But the Santa Claus written about and described to Virginia by Mr. Church back then is not the same Santa we know today.  Then he represented hope, love, imagination, and the spirit and joy of a child on the eve of the birth of Jesus, a mythology of caring, the sincerity of giving, and the happiness of receiving.

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