Merry Christmas

[m3a1]

Merry Christmas, you Mutts...

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May your New Year dreams come true!!

Cheers!
TJ

[Lou]

Merry Christmas!

[m3a1]

Oh!.... that's a BEAUTY!

[lpcoating]

Merry Christmas fellas. Hope everyone can enjoy time with family.

Guy

[csmith]

Merry Christmas to all Mutt brothers and sisters, may Santa bring you the parts requested, health and prosperity in the new year! Blessed to have such a cool vehicle and hobby!

Clell

[Hambone]

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Merry Christmas.

[Mr. Recovery]

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.

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[rickf]

Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all from the guys at the g838.

[rickf]

Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.”
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115 West Ninety Fifth Street

The editorial — in reply
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been
affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not
believe except they see. They think that nothing can be
which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All
minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are
little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect,
an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless
world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable
of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
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 dreary 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 sense and
sight. The external light with which childhood fills the
world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe
in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to
watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch
Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus
coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees
Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa
Claus. The most real things in the world are those that
neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no
proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable
in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes
the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen
world which not the strongest man, nor even the united
strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could
tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push
aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal
beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all
this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever.
A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times
10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the
heart of childhood.
EDITORIAL
Editor’s note: “Is There a Santa Claus?” is reprinted from the Sept. 21, 1897, edition of The New York Sun.
Virginia O'Hanlon, c. 1897 (Courtesy James Temple),
editorial writer Francis P. Church (The Century
Association Archives Foundation) and the start of
Church's famous editorial. NEWSEUM COLLECTION
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[rupert's]

I wish you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[SEABEE62]

Merry Christmas and A HAPPY NEW 2021 !!!!!! SEABEE