Lord." But yearly, as they came up to the twice-loved service in Shiloh, they saw again the child, still

serving in the courts of the Lord's house, "girded with a linen ephod." And the gift they brought him each

year from home was that with which Hannah's love best liked to connect her absent child - "a little Meil,"  28

or priestly robe in which to do his service. She had made him "the God-asked," and present or absent he was

ever such in her loving thoughts. But, as Eli had prayed, instead of the "asked one," who was "asked" for

Jehovah, three sons and two daughters gladdened Hannah's heart. "But the boy Samuel grew up with

Jehovah" (1 Samuel 2:21).