FRONT: Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love 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 if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith, then no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in the sense of sight. The Eternal Light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.—Francis Church 1897
INSIDE: How wondrous is the world for those who BELIEVE.