Brother Mark Twain’s, A Letter from Santa Clause

There is a special kind of light that glows in a child’s heart on Christmas morning, the same light that Freemasonry seeks to kindle in men through wisdom, virtue, and love of neighbor. Brother Mark Twain, ever the storyteller of truth wrapped in wit, captured that spirit in his “Palace of St. Nicholas in the Moon.” In his fanciful letter from Santa Claus to young Susie Clemens, we find not only warmth and humor but a moral parable worthy of a Lodge lecture. It reminds us that the truest gifts; kindness, patience, and charity; are not wrapped in ribbons but carried quietly in the heart of every good Mason.