TOM SAWYER’S FALSE FUNERAL
Easter is a little bit like that favorite scene in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Joe Harper had set forth on a raft down the Mississippi to be pirates. Everybody at home thought they were lost and dead, so the town had a funeral for the three of them on Sunday morning. At Sunday school all the people could talk about was the three boys. When the bell rang for Sunday school to be over, the people filed solemnly into the sanctuary for the funeral service. The preacher began talking about the three lost lads, stories so winning and touching that the people felt pangs of guilt that they hadn’t seen such good in these boys when they lived but had so often seen their faults and flaws. Soon everybody was sobbing in grief. Then there was a rustle in the back balcony, and the back door creaked open; the minister, wiping his…
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