"I Belong To The King"

Hymn composer Ida L. Reed wrote “I Belong To The King” in 1896. An American born in West Virginia, Ms. Reed was awarded a “small weekly bonus” by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers because of the volume of her work. She wrote over 2,000 hymns, including “I Belong To The King.”

Joseph Lincoln Hall set Reed’s “I Belong To The King” to music. He was an honors graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a choir director and a composer who wrote many of his own cantatas, songs, and hymns. Later, he published hymnals.

“I Belong To The King”

I belong to the King; I’m a child of His love,
I shall dwell in His palace so fair,
For He tells of its bliss in yon heaven above,
And His children in splendor shall share.

Refrain

I belong to the King; I’m a child of His love,
And he never forsaketh His own.
He will call me some day to His palace above;
I shall dwell by His glorified throne.

I belong to the King, and He loves me I know,
For His mercy and kindness so free
Are unceasingly mine wheresoever I go,
And my Refuge unfailing is He.

Refrain

I belong to the King, and His promise is sure:
That we all shall be gathered at last
In His kingdom above, by life’s waters so pure,
When this life with its trials is past.

Refrain

Both composers of “I Belong To The King” Ida B. Reed, and Joseph Lincoln Hall were of the Methodist denomination, which is apparently how they met to collaborate on the composition.

“I Belong To The King”

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