In doing this he violated one of the laws of the kingdom; and the King’s attention having been drawn to it, he sent and had him brought before him, at the instigation of the Magi, who declared that the fire should be immediately extinguished, or else it would “get the better of their fires, and bring about the downfall of the kingdom.” The Druids had, no doubt, heard of the triumph of the Gospel in other lands, and rightly anticipated that the new religion, which was spreading throughout the world,