There’s a lecture series?!
Yes, .30Carbine there is a Lecture Series. It 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 Lecture Series.
It would be as dreary as if there were no .30Carbines. 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 eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
It was eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon who wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun. The quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897, written by veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church.
With thanks and apologies to Virginia O'Hanlon, Francis Pharcellus Church, and the Jolly Old Elf himself Santa Claus!