Don't forget the reason for the season

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. That was the first sentence of the third paragraph in an editorial written in response to 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter inquiring about the existence of Santa Claus. The editorial was written in 1897 by Frank Church of the New York Sun. The editorial response was to assure a child that the Christmas traditions of faith, hope and charity embodied in an unseen jolly elf dressed in red were values to live by.