A writer in the "New Era, or Heaven opened to man," of May 17th, an organ of the "communicators with familiar spirits," in Boston, attempts an explanation of the "modus operandi of miracles." That of the manna in the wilderness, the widow's flour, and the cruse of oil, he explains on the ground that the materials "were obtained and brought by spirits from where they were to be had." And that of the raising of Lazarus, he resolves into a restoration from a trance—gravely affirming that, "God never did, and never will raise up from the grave, a literal, decomposing body, and re-animate it with life! 'Tis infidelity, heathenism, and gross, undeveloped nonsense to believe it!!"
Another writer in the same paper, attributes to spirits the ability to manufacture by which he would explain the first-mentioned miracles; but how he would explain the latter, does not appear.