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<h2>A CHILD OF THE KING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“If children, then…heirs of God.” Romans 8:17</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_u_sumner_jb.jpg" alt="John Bunnell Sumner (1839-1918)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="133.333333333333" height="170"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_u_buell_hep.html" target="_blank">Harriet Eugenia Peck Buell</a>, 1877.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Binghamton,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_u_sumner_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bunnell Sumner</a>, 1877 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_b_binghamt.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>The lyrics first appeared in <em>The Northern Christian Advocate</em>, February 1, 1877. They were written as a poem, titled “The Child of a King.” John Sumner had been praying for a Gospel song to replace the one that would have been written by his friend and teacher <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_l_bliss_pp.html" target="_blank">Philip Bliss</a>, who had recently suffered an untimely death. When Sumner saw these words, he knew his prayer had been answered.</p>
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<p>My Father is rich in houses and lands,<br>
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He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hands!<br>
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Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold,<br>
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His coffers are full, He has riches untold.</p>
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<p class="refrain">I’m a child of the King,<br>
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A child of the King:<br>
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With Jesus my Savior,<br>
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I’m a child of the King.</p>
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<p>My Father’s own Son, the Savior of men,<br>
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Once wandered on earth as the poorest of them;<br>
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But now He is pleading our pardon on high,<br>
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That we may be His when He comes by and by.</p>
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<p>I once was an outcast stranger on earth,<br>
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A sinner by choice, an alien by birth,<br>
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But I’ve been adopted, my name’s written down,<br>
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An heir to a mansion, a robe and a crown.</p>
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<p>A tent or a cottage, why should I care?<br>
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They’re building a palace for me over there;<br>
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Though exiled from home, yet still may I sing:<br>
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All glory to God, I’m a child of the King.</p>
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